The Betacantrips Travelogue

Seen on Planet Debian: ‘Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?’ The solution starts:

#!/bin/sh
cp_p()
{
   strace -q -ewrite cp -- "${1}" "${2}" 2>&1 \
...

The author notes in the comments:

If you feel the need to point out an alternative solution, then you have missed the entire point by a wide margin.

—lamby

Found this episode of Pictures for Sad Children pretty wonderful:

I think this is a great distillation of everything that Big Media stands for.

Thanks Suzanne for this picture, linked from Boing Boing:

Seen on Language Log: "John Cleese’s doubletalk neuroscience lecture".

Seen on JWZ:

Seen via Suzanne: this intro video for the University of Alaska-Fairbanks’s hockey team.

Alaska Nanooks 2010 Hockey Intro from Szymon Weglarski on Vimeo.

Thanks Mike for bringing this to my attention: Hottest Heads of State list. Top of the list?

Yulia Tymoshenko Prime Minister of Ukraine

Obama is #15. Putin in a wifebeater is #24. There are 217 heads of state listed.

Seen via pixelstyle:

Seen on True Chip Till Death: the True Chip Awards Invite. The video’s only a minute and it’s good for a laugh if you’re a nerd:

Seen on Language Log. There’s a movie called Exit Through the Gift Shop — about street art disasters, mostly not relevant to my interests. However, the tagline is:

In a world with no rules… one man… broke them all.

How awesome is that?