Why the Oxford/Harvard comma is important (funny pic): http://t.co/dquR1oTI

Wanna hijack other people's Facebook/Twitter/etc sessions on your wireless network? Oh dear: http://codebutler.com/firesheep

The latest version of git (1.7.7) gives you "git stash -u". With -u, git stash will now stash untracked files too. Very handy :-)

The life of a software engineer: http://t.co/nSnuInnp (funny pic)

If the current trajectory continues unabated, someone farting at a tech conference will result in a full scale nuclear war by 2016.

The 3D feature on the Nintendo 3DS doesn't work if you shut one eye. Nintendo is finally clamping down on the pirates then.

Dennis Ritchie, creator of C (and co-creator of UNIX), has died aged 70: http://t.co/96FjUr3Z

GitHub's Summer of Code: What you do is write some open source and put it on GitHub. Entry form is at http://github.com/

Wise words from Reddit this evening: "If she's never used dialup Internet, she's too young for you."

So Facebook's worth 0.3% of US GDP. Given FB's effects on office productivity, are we running at a net loss? ;-)

Now the Higgs is confirmed, it's more fun to say you want to "reduce your interactions with the Higgs field" than "lose weight."

Algorithmic complexity for structural programmers: All algorithms are O(f(n)) where f is someone else's responsibility.

Careful using tricks to bypass Wikipedia blackout. You might violate the DMCA ;-) "criminalizes the act of circumventing an access control"

Just realized Wikileaks is like The Daily WTF but for government documents instead of source code.

Trivia: "grep" comes from g/re/p in ed, a command that Globally searches for a Regular Expression and Prints the results.

Linus Torvalds /really/ doesn't like C++: http://t.co/dwtvSXej

A rather clever Git cheatsheet (click on the bars): http://www.ndpsoftware.com/git-cheatsheet.html

GitHub users might find this guy's contribution graph interesting/funny:  https://github.com/will 

My latest fun project is http://t.co/vlmWlcBX - a medley of Ruby tricks and techniques wrapped up in a free video. Watch now! :-)

Reddit just taught me something. On OS X, select some text, press Cmd+Shift+Y. You get a sticky note created instantly.