Today in Blog...

• I have a publishing deal!
• All I want for Christmas is a negative leap second
• Human civilisation looks back, puzzled,
• The Assist
• Mirror's Edge vs. Catalyst
• Control, from an SCP contributor's perspective
• "Lena" isn't about uploading
• Selecting content for a short story collection
• Ratchets in software development
• There are hardcover editions too!
• The Pale Blue Dot, But Time
• Yes, there are paperback editions
• Save the code or save the tests?
• It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code
• Refactoring The Rise Of Skywalker
• Based On A Twitter Thread About Worldbuilding
• Stomp On The Mystery Box
• Write Like A Programmer
• Taxonomy of teleportation models
• Now for a subjective diatribe about Docker's poor use of analogies
• We had a unit test once which only failed on Sundays
• Gödel's incompleteness theorems
• To destroy the Earth
• Ranking the Bond film titles
• If Deckard's a replicant
• Asteroid mining business plan:
• Personas: imaginary friends for software developers
• Adapting "The Difference"
• The Hunt For Red October as hard science fiction
• Review: Gravity
• Citation found
• How many infinities are there?
• Hey look, I'm on Drabblecast
• Deus Ex Ultimate Run walkthrough
• Redeeming Quantum of Solace
• A technical question about the qntm.org URL schema
• Review: Oblivion
• Password security in Deus Ex
• Teaching Perl
• Abandoned screenplay ideas
• Post-mortem: Mirror's Edge
• Chess: THE MOVIE
• Thing I Have Learned About Software Testing
• When is a URL shortener not a URL shortener?
• Escaping strings for use at any command line
• Parser combinators explained
• The difference between top-down parsing and bottom-up parsing
• On short URLs
• Charts/graphs in Perl - some cautionary notes
• Human-powered spaceflight
• "Inbox Zero" is a thing?
• Harder Core Than Thou
• One Chance
• Troll pi explained
• Algorithm for converting a finite state machine into a regular expression
• Skynet: Behind the Music
• A minimalist lifestyle does not make you a better person
• P versus NP for dummies
• Stay classy, Newgrounds
• "Let's make it an option!"
• SOLVED: Escaping strings in Bash
• SCARY ROBOTS
• The Thing About Facebook
• That way lies madness
• So I guess the OoT WR just got halved?
• A becomes B
• Attention, Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Nick Frost, Jessica Stevenson:
• Insane NAS permissions problem (SOLVED)
• And now: a homeopathy joke
• Formal language
• Now for some movie mashups
• Spirit is nothing
• A McAfee Mystery
• Fixed: The Odd/Even Star Trek Movie Law
• Formal grammar
• Pseudomathematics
• z/OMG
• The Last James Bond Movie
• The year 2012 will not destroy the Earth
• SamTronic EtherStorage 2000
• Review: Star Trek
• On leaving Facebook
• Suicide Linux
• SciFiQuest
• Planes on treadmills
• StickManStickMan
• Sticky Thirteens
• The Official 2012 Prophecy
• Sony Ericsson W580i review
• The Happenin'
• Half-Life timeline v0.5
• It's not every day you get two stories on the front page of reddit simultaneously
• Terminator timeline
• Let's talk about Everything2.
• Review: Bender's Big Score
• AstroLander FAQ
• Failures of the Turing Test
• The World's Largest Numbers, Part Two
• List of United States Presidents by intrinsic comedy value
• Should illegal numbers be possible?
• For no reason, here's the text version of "Over Nine Thousand"
• The World's Largest Numbers, Part One
• Ban Time Travel Now!
• Proof that the clarkkkkson is bigger than the xkcd number
• In defence of the Apple Powerbook thing in "Independence Day"
• I will not be buying a Wii at launch
• Proposed Solution To Global Warming
• Review: Children Of Men
• Joe The Circle returneth
• The formula for the numbers on Lost
• Advice for Monopoly Pub Crawlers
• The Semantic Web: mmmmmmnope
• Review: Mission: Impossible 3
• On Strategy Wiki's failings
• "Wouldn't it be cool if we could do this" principle
• The next series of Star Trek in two words: Mirror Borg
• 10 reasons why The Simpsons sucks
• 24 drinking game
• Firefly is not science fiction
• Xbox 360 original IP
• I have combined the DNA of the world's most evil animals, to make the most evil creature of them all!
• Han Solo vs. Mal Reynolds
• THAT WILL ACTUALLY WORK NOW.
• Reservations about the next generation
• Point nine recurring equals one
• Band names that are really hard to search for
• Every Musical Genre Ever
• Incomplete two-word sentences with which to end your life
• Palermo asteroid calculator
• poorer motivation each season
• Destroying the Earth (subdirectory)
• The Air Quotation Marks Diversion
• Why ice cubes rock
• The Official Lent Countdown
• Titanic drinking game
• Golden rules of time travel
• StickManStickMan is ending
• Review: Metroid Prime
• Culture ship names