I was going through some code, cleaning up an old app that I’ve now put in Subversion. Before I used source control, I would hardcode the last modified date in a comment in the code. Any file I touch now, I always delete that info since the repository tracks it all for me.

Anyway, I was going through a particular line, and found this comical typo:

Date last modificatied: 5/15/2002.

Lol, I must have been coding in my sleep there.

A friend of mine forwarded this great video:

You know, by the end of the video, the comparison to a book is so simplistic, I really was wondering just what it is that makes it so difficult to understand how a computer can store our information..

If you haven’t seen it yet, David Pogue’s video discussing whether Windows Vista copies Mac OS X is pretty entertaining material…for Mac enthusiasts, anyway.

Even though I think it is pretty blatant, for those of you who do not realize: David is using a common linguistic tool known as sarcasm.

I love funny lists about stuff in the programming realm, like the Levels of JavaScript Knowledge list I stumbled across with Jenny’s help.

Well, here’s a great one about a pet peeve of mine: What code DOESN’T do in real life (that it does in the movies). Movies almost always portray email clients, the web, app source code, and other computer elements very differently from the way they really look. I know it’s an effort to make these things look more interesting, but seriously, some of the stuff they’ve come up with is pretty wild.

This article points out some of the stupid cinematic effects Hollywood sometimes applies to code. Warning: The author’s language is needlessly inappropriate at times. But if you can get past that, it’s a great laugh.