Spooky: half of all presidents since WWII are southpaws

female orgasmic frequency found to correlate with partner's bank balance

If you buy a ShamWow you're funding the battle against Scientology

I don't mind the .NET platform, or the C# language, but I am developing a deep and abiding hatred of Visual Studio 2008 ( Read more... )

Haha... turns out the Barbie doll really was "just a horndog's limited vision of beauty."

Where should I go if LJ collapses?

There's not much real connection left here for me.  I'll probably just end up following elysesewell.

Turns out that Microsoft's data-binding magic in asp.net totally chokes if you put cascading dropdown lists inside a bound templated control (i.e. use cascaded dropdowns for individual data fields within something bound to the whole record they're part of).

[Update] Here's a workaround:  for those dropdowns that have to cascade, replace ( Read more... )

Why the term "Islamofascist" is a misnomer ( Read more... )

Today I learned that if you go "CHCP 65001" in a .bat file, under Windows XP that causes the script to halt with no error message.  In fact, if you type that command by hand and then run the batch file, it halts immediately.

If you're a rat, sometimes the scientists give you electric shocks in the feet, other times, they take you out clubbing.