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.