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Cheryl’s mind turned like the vanes of a wind-powered turbine, chopping her sparrow-like thoughts into bloody pieces that fell onto a growing pile of forgotten memories.
Sue Fondrie
Oshkosh, WI
The winner of the 2011 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is Sue Fondrie, an associate professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh who works groan-inducing wordplay into her teaching and administrative duties whenever possible. Out of school, she introduces two members of the next generation to the mysteries of Star Trek, Star Wars, and--of course--the art of the bad pun.
Prof. Fondrie is the 29th grand prize winner of the contest that that began at San Jose State University in 1982. The contest challenges entrants to compose bad opening sentences to imaginary novels takes its name from the Victorian novelist Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, who began his “Paul Clifford” with “It was a dark and stormy night.” -
Alternatives to malloc and new « #AltDevBlogADay
Obligatory Introductory Parable
I really like Sushi, it’s tasty and convenient. I like the immediacy of being able to go into a Sushi restaurant complete with conveyor belt and being able to take a seat and grab something fresh and delicious from the belt without blowing my entire lunch hour. Having said that, what I really wouldn’t like is to be a member of staff in a Sushi restaurant, especially if it was my job to show the diners to their seats and here’s why… -
Not just an accident | George Chen
We’ve talked about whether China’s economy will have a soft or hard landing. In fact, what China needs is a pause. Lots of things in China may be moving way too fast. Including our trains.
On Saturday, at least 35 people died when a high-speed train smashed into a stalled train in eastern Zhejiang province, raising new questions about the safety of the fast-growing rail network. -
Online commenting: the age of rage | Technology | The Observer
The worldwide web has made critics of us all. But with commenters able to hide behind a cloak of anonymity, the blog and chatroom have become forums for hatred and bile
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"We Could've Had the Moon" (July 13, 2011)
I do not normally choose to appropriate images when I can draw instead, but once I’d searched for photo references of Afghanistan and the Moon the similarity between them was too hilarious not to use actual photos. You would only have assumed that my drawings were unfair exaggerations.
Last week the cover article in The Economist was “The End of the Space Age.” Regular readers of The Pain know that the author is a serious weenie when it comes to space exploration, and the last flight of the U.S. shuttle program, currently in progress, saddens me. Not that I was ever all that excited about the shuttle, except for the time when I personally saw a launch, but after this one lands, for the first time since the fifties, America will be without a manned space program. We’ll now be hitching rides with the Russians to the space station, a more humiliating situation than which is hard to envision. By dispiriting coincidence, we're approaching July 20th, the 42nd anniversary of the moon landing. It now looks like 1969 may have been the high water mark of America as a scientific and technological power. -
Print - The Bomb That Didn't Go Off - Esquire
Since September 11, 2001, we have finely honed our fear of the other. But the truth is, the overwhelming majority of our terrorism has always been homegrown. And it is times like these — times of anger and disaffection — when we turn on ourselves, and kill.
By Charles P. Pierce
Flag Art
In 2009, in the city of Spokane, Washington, the Public Facilities District bought a bench. It was metal. It was aluminum, its powder coat a bronze that ran toward brown. It sat three people. The city bought the bench from a company called Landscape Forms in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The bench cost $2,679.46, delivered. -
The Principles of Good Programming
Summary
Over the years I have found that following a relatively small number of fundamental guiding principles has helped me become a much more effective programmer.
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Today's post is a lightly edited repost from my blog at The Area, a web-site dedicated to users of Autodesk media and entertainment products. I came up with this list of principles to help with a recent C# training I gave, and I thought that members of the Artima.com community could appreciate these principles and have some interesting insights to share.
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
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