davidgagne.net — The personal weblog of David Vincent Gagne

• Check out Slaughterhouse 90210, where erudite literary quotes meet TV screencaps!
• “There are more possible chess games than the number of atoms in the universe.” — from a fascinating article by Garry Kasparov on the topic of playing chess with computers
• If you’re addicted to Twitter, there are a bunch of tools you can use to monitor trends and (your own) statistics.
• Terri Carlson is 45 and was born with a genetic immune disorder C-4 complement deficiency. She’s currently on COBRA health insurance but it runs out in a year, so she says she will marry you for your health insurance.
• Probably Bad News is just like the Jay Leno “Headlines” bit. I saw a good one today: Homicide victims rarely talk to police.
• Psssst! You can buy ten ampersands for $9.99 if you’re into that sort of thing.

• Only XKCD could produce such an emotionally-charged comic strip about the Mars rover Spirit. (How can you not feel badly about that poor little robot?)
• Where do all my taxes go? The New York Times has a great infographic that displays the recently-proposed 2011 US budget.
• You’ll find bunches of (mostly technical) fascinating links if you subscribe to my delicious feed; but in case you don’t and it’s the sort of thing that interests you, check out:
  • All About Cron Jobs
  • A Complete Guide to Regular Expressions
  • The Official Facebook PHP Guide
  • Create Nice 3D Ribbons With Pure CSS3
• Why the iPad will fail and help Windows 7 to succeed is required reading for anyone that is just blindingly stupid. It’s perfect for brilliant minds who also think the government is secretly poisoning us with fluoride and there’s really no hard evidence linking cigarettes with lung cancer.

I can’t stand when people say, “I could care less.”

“I could care less,” is one of those little things that drives me absolutely batshit crazy. If you could care less, it means you care. That’s not what you mean when you say that, is it? What you mean is that you don’t care. Someone posted this handy little graphic in a discussion forum and it really helps. (Click it to see!) Do you get it now?