Accessibility, Crazy (Event Gripping) Ideas
In addition to being the TDDPirate (without eyepatch, however; although I almost earned the right to wear one in an accident one and half years ago), I am also Omer because this is the name, which my parents gave me almost half century ago.
Turns out that the Urban Dictionary has an interesting definition for Omer. And I won’t mention here the definition of my surname.
The guy in another city to the southwest of my living place, who is sharing my name, must be very cool person.
In yet another trivia expedition, I came upon a Google Answers thread about turkeys. Turns out that the American businesses dealing with turkey meat (farmers and processing plants) have a Web site about their favorite topic, which serves to promote eating turkey meat.
It was casually mentioned that even though turkey is a traditional American food, the per capita consumption of this meat is actually higher in Israel than in USA. But the reference to this trivia is in another Web site Per capita Turkey meat consumption in selected countries.
MarkShuttleworth’s FAQ has the following passage in the answer to the question “What about the GCC 4.0 transition? Why did you adopt GCC 4.0?”:
“This was discussed with the Debian toolchain maintainers, who were themselves planning to adopt GCC 4 at some time (well, sort of involved the Ubuntu maintainer talking to himself, they are the same guy, …).”
Several minutes after reading the FAQ, I still find the above passage to be hilarious.
Note also Bug #1 in Ubuntu.
Few days ago I wrote about pangrams and today I saw in Slashdot another way to play with words – build them from chemical symbols. I think it would have been more interesting if chemical formulae and chemical reactions could be used rather than just chemical symbols. However I do not see any competitor to Perl Poetry.
The coming year will be a year of impossible deeds.
While grass does not grow in my hands, yet, cress has been made to grow in a keyboard.
The subject sentence is an example of a pangram.
Sentences containing every letter of the alphabet are called “pangrams”, or “holalphabetic sentences”.
URLs which cover the subject and provide more examples of pangrams:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/c_northcote_parkinson.html has two less-known quotes, which are nevertheless gems:
Or, rather, cleverly specify what your software should do. Anyway, http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html said essentially the same things as Yossi Vardi says, but with more salt and pepper (I understand that elsewhere this is called pizazz).
Thanks to Joel on Software for pointing out this article.
http://research.haifa.ac.il/~eshkol/
I do not remember seeing a Web site in memory of anyone, who is not professional comedian, in which every page of information is accompanied by few jokes by, or about, that person.
And to think that the person in question had a lot of serious accomplishments as one of the leaders of Israel, it is mind-boggling!