Eight-Year-Old Seattle Girl Receives a Steady Supply of Gifts From the Neighborhood Crows

Eight-Year-Old Seattle Girl Receives a Steady Supply of Gifts From the Neighborhood Crows

I’m a huge fan of Civ, and I can’t wait to see how this goes.

http://kotaku.com/civilization-players-are-sending-the-entire-world-to-wa-1686637399

It’s no longer pitch black when we get home at night!

I think Clay Caviness in particular will find this amazing.

http://sploid.gizmodo.com/secret-stash-of-moon-artifacts-found-hidden-in-neil-arm-1684449533

Of interest only to my computer science friends who know and love C very well. I thought after over 30 years of using the language I had already seen every perversion and depravity possible in C, and yet, here’s a new one to me: you can abuse Duff’s Device plus macros to get co-routines. (The side effect may be to summon the old ones though.)

Apparently this was originally discovered by Tom Duff and he thought it was too disgusting to describe in his original Usenet posting on Duff’s Device. Simon Tatham’s “PuTTY” actually uses it throughout!

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/coroutines.html

Ward A Corry Robb 

View at Medium.com

I just watched a guy on the weather channel count trucks in a parking lot.

“Women in the developing world know the power of [vaccines]. They will walk 10 kilometers in the heat with their child and line up to get a vaccine, because they have seen death. [Americans have] forgotten what measles deaths look like.”

http://www.vox.com/2015/1/26/7907067/melinda-gates-measles-vaccines

GCU Just Read the Instructions and GCU Of Course I Still Love You are both from The Player of Games. IIRC they were involved in blackmailing Morat Gurgeh into his mission to the Empire of Azad.

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2015/01/elon-musk-iain-m-banks-just-read-the-instructions