Update: I posted the story on MetaFilter, and it has since shown up on Boing Boing. By the end of the day, this guy’s going to be the best-known computer thief in the nerdsphere.
Tris Hussey reports:
It seems that this gentleman stole a friend’s laptop…well then decided to take pictures of himself, but then uploaded them [...]
In response to my post on the film Sorting Out Sorting, I’ve already received three email suggestions that someone hold a movie night for geeks where we watch the film and “smoke a bowl“, as the expression goes.
Should anyone decide to hold such a movie night, may I suggest this bong, made from the shell [...]
Here’s a gem from over a quarter-century ago: Sorting Out Sorting, a film produced by the University of Toronto that uses then-impressive graphics to visually explain sorting algorithms:
Click here to see the video at a larger size.Video length: 31 minutes, 15 seconds.
The film is divided into three sections, each devoted to a category of [...]