Fun unix shebang abuse: wakeonlan is technically a valid interpreter: #!/usr/bin/wakeonlan -f <mac address here> is a valid executable and no one can tell you otherwise.

Imagemagick. It's very powerful, but speaking it takes pieces of your soul.

So Slack swapped the colors for "unread mentions" and "unread messages" and I don't think that I'll ever forgive them.

Psst hey kid, cmere. Want some heterodox opinions? *opens trench coat to reveal staggering number of weird thoughts* First one's free

Beet greens sautéed in a "restaurant" quantity of clarified butter is more delicious than eating 4 bananas (equivalent potassium), but so much more work.

Duran just hit a home run. We are thus sadly deprived of seeing him leg out a single or steal 2nd.

I miss sci-fi stories that feature a huge business of: 1) Drilling oil on Venus, which has lots because it's all jungle. 2) Transporting it to and selling it on Earth (or Mars!) Need to bring this back.

Romania requested to switch their ISO 3166-alpha-3 code in 2002 from ROM to ROU; the ISO let them. And Doug Ewell was nettled. unicode.org/mail-arch/unic…

This man is ready to print 1500 sheets in support of this WNBA game.

Thank you transportation secretary Brad Stevens.

Is anyone working on creating a AI model of Sufjan Stevens with enough fidelity to do the other 48 states albums?

If Raytheon removes the rainbow hats from their internal store, China will invade Tiwan within 2 months. This sounds like a shitpost, but it's not; directionally accurate, but too extreme.

Why did they call it "Houston Astros sign stealing scandal" and not "Sinker Twoseam Slider Spy?"

The text of Wile E. Coyote is "violence is bad because it never works," The subtext is "violence is awesome because it's soo funny." I don't know which message is more important.

Wikipedia's info box for Larry, the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, that includes an expandable list of Prime Ministers served under, is just peak British comedy.

I tried so hard and got so far But in the end, it doesn't even matter I had to fall to lose it all

I miss scrollbars. I think it was worth it to give up 5% of the pixels to quickly and reliably 1) see where in the document you are and 2) scroll to anywhere.

I like NFL football, but it's too patriarchal what if there were something that used the same broadcast infrastructure as football, but it was about an orphan Swiss girl living in the Alps.

This chart [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mina…] and Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (the one Boston plays on the 4th of July with the cannons) are deceptions of the same event in 2 different genera.