"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all, it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a facist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country." ~Herman Goering speaking at the Nuremberg trails after WWII

Three clever envelopes to get you out of trouble.

This fascinating essay from Paul Graham takes on the issues of nerd popularity and what is wrong with our schools.

W. Bruce Cameron's column called 8 Simple Rules for Dating my Daughter is a source of hilarity. My favorite rule, #4: "I'm sure you've been told that in today's world, sex without utilizing a 'barrier method' of some kind will kill you. Let me elaborate: when it comes to sex, I am the barrier, and I will kill you."

Found this picture online, wondering if this could really be...

Who comes up with ideas like the Shakespearean Programming Language?

A polyglot is a program that works in several languages without modification. Check out a cool polyglot that supports COBOL (ANSI), Pascal (ISO), Fortran (ANSI, f77), C (ANSI-ish), PostScript, Linux/Unix shell script (bash, sh, csh), x86 machine language (MS-DOS, Win32, Linux), Perl (version 5)! Also, check out more polyglots here!

99 bottles of beer - one program in 621 versions. Examples of a sample program in 621 different languages, including object-oriented, assembler, and more. 'nuff said.

Whitespace is a strange programming language. The syntax consists entirely of spaces, tabs, and line feeds -- all other characters are considered comments. Very bizarre, very cool!