If, like me, you can’t stand Coldplay but you love th satirical musical comedy stylings of Mitch Benn, you’ll love his latest single, Everything sounds like Coldplay now. First played on The Now Show, the song now has the appropriate videoclip to go with it (Quicktime required).
Link via Reinder.
Every tester hears these sooner or later; some of them are straight from the mouths of developers I’ve worked with, or so it seems:
And from comments: ‘It works on my PC’
(Our version of that last remark is “it works in the debug version”. Such a pity you cannot deliver debug code to customers…)
From Terry Pratchett’s latest, Thud!:
Vimes had never got on with any game much more complex than darts. Chess in particular had always annoyed him. It was the dumb way the pawns went off and slaughtered their fellow pawns while the kings lounged about doing nothing that always got to him; if only the pawns united, maybe talked the rooks around, the whole board could’ve been a republic in a dozen moves.
Courtesy of Outside a Dog
Too good not to quote entirely, this wonderful proposal reported upon
by Charlotte Street:
A friend of mine suggests a new left blog, using the following formula:
a. There will be occasional analyses of safely canonical texts from the Left tradition.
b. He will, however, carefully eschew any Marxist or even radical left analyses of the contemporary world.
No mention of class, inequality, exploitation, imperialism; most conspicuously, capitalism will be spared
any thoroughgoing critique.
c. Most of his energies will instead be devoted to chasing a spectral entity called the ‘liberal-left’ as it manifests itself, especially, in X newspaper, and in decrying the ‘pseudo-left’ as manifest here there and everywhere.
d. He will be comfortable with his citation on the blogrolls of various right-wing groupuscules and
assorted reactionary ranters.
e. He will defiantly maintain that he is the authentic custodian of radical thought.
With apologies to Paul Merton.
