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The imagery seemed to suggest that every time you went to a BP pump, you were filling up your car with sunshine. via davidwarrenonline.com

[[posterous-content:IthhzgzwBIFFjeBnFglv]] via spiegel.de Might as well not waste them - maybe KFC or Pollo Loco can come up with a new special.

It's pretty easily actually - pretty much just have to follow this script. Hummingbird can give you a look at your site's traffic in real time. It's written using node.js.

[[posterous-content:nuvJEafpbiqAaDbkrosn]]via boredpanda.com Some very interesting churches here.

During a training session at Miami International Airport, a TSA supervisor joked about the size of the manhood of one of his colleagues who had just stepped into the machine. The supervisor was operating the equipment when he made the remark - so his joke could have been based on facts. Rolando Negrin couldn't appreciate the jokes about his genitalia, so at the end of his shift, he used a police baton to beat up the supervisor in an airport parking garage.

I've been working on a config for a CMS that's about to get pounded in the next couple of months - here's what it does: 1. Everything that flows through Varnish has a 5 minute TTL set - keep the origin server lightly loaded. 2. If Varnish can't get to the origin server, there's an hour to get it right - a "grace" period. That's pretty much an eternity in web years so it should be OK.

The European Union has declared travelling a human right, and is launching a scheme to subsidize vacations with taxpayers' dollars for those too poor to afford their own trips. via vancouversun.com

Over the last two months we have been working on several iPad projects: Two news projects, a social network and a word processor; we worked on those applications without having the actual device to test. The question “Are we designing desktop applications, web sites or something entirely new?” has been torturing us until that magical package from New York finally crossed our door sill. Here is a quick write up of design insights before and after the appearance of the iPad at our office.

CSS Killswitch lets you non- destructively black out a difficult client's website with the click of a button. via csskillswitch.com

Resty is a tiny script wrapper for curl. It provides a simple, concise shell interface for interacting with REST services. Since it is implemented as functions in your own shell and not in its own command environment you have access to all the powerful shell tools, such as perl, awk, grep, sed, etc. You can use resty in pipelines to process data from REST services, and PUT or POST the data right back.