Happy Cow Steak

"Apparently what Richard was never taught in art class, and oddly Armin fails to understand, is that you should not market (especially to kids) by turning what they are about to eat into something that was cute and friendly. There is a very good reason a happy cow can sell a gallon of milk and not a pound of hamburger." -- insightful comment on a student's Jello-O corporate redesign (Brand new)

iPhone and P2P

"The original iPhone does not support using Bluetooth for peer-to-peer connectivity (...)" -- Apple Support

I'm wondering why? I know that the 1st gen. iPhone has a different Bluetooth chipset. But it should be capable of handling bi-directional traffic - after all that's what BT was designed for.

Safari 4

Just a small warning: OS X's "Software Update" updates Safari to v4!

Update:
And a bigger warning, if you have been syncing your Safari4 Beta bookmarks via MobileMe (this did not work), updating to Safari4 will revert your bookmarks back to a rather old revision. reason is that Safari4 beta did not manage to sync your bookmarks up to MobileMe, so any changes you did were only locally. Safari4 Release now syncs with MobileMe, so after upgrade it syncs with the out-of-date version on MobileMe... grrr! /folkert

Aid

Recently I tried to make Meringue (whipped egg whites) using our simple, small hand mixer, which turned out to be a quite frustrating experience. After all, the hand mixer just didn't have enough power.
As a result, we ordered a KitchenAid Professional 5 Plus (Flash, sorry) - 450 Watt, yah!

Oh by the way, the Meringue was part of Grandma's Lemon Meringue Pie, a really delicious pie.

email contact

Definitely the nerdiest contact information that I've seen on a website for a while: SELECT REVERSE( 'moc.anocrep@norab');
Found on Baron Schwartz's (xaprb) blog.

Difference of two arrays in Perl

Just something I came up with .. maybe it is helpful to some of you:

# In: 0=array A, 1=array B
# Returns: ([values found in A and B], [only in A], [only in B])
sub diffTwoArrays($$) {
  my ($a, $b) = @_;

  my (@inBoth, @onlyInB) = ((), ());

  my %a = map { $_ => undef } @$a;
  foreach (@$b) {
    if (exists $a{$_}) {
      push(@inBoth, $_);
      delete $a{$_};
    } else {
      push(@onlyInB, $_);
    }
  }

  return (\@inBoth, [keys %a], \@onlyInB);
}

HyperJeff's Reference

A nice, tidy link list of OS X references - and it is searchable too:
Find all at HyperJeff

Super-duper rock band

The List -- OK, I'm totally biased because a friend of mine is part of the band. But you should check them out live - they are really good.
P.S. Obviously the keyboarder rocks the most!