I especially like it when science cross paths with programming. I've always remembered the suggestion for the only time the <blink> tag should ever be used:
In related news, it turns out there are various names for different kinds of bugs- heisenbugs, for example.
If you haven't guessed, it relates to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle and to the Schrödinger's paradox of the cat.
Other web comics I subscribe to also feature this paradox:
An early xkcd - make sure you check out the alt text
And SMBC.
It makes me wonder whether defect tracking software should have an attribute for developers to assign these various bug types.
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You should like Calamities of Nature too -
http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/archive/?c=652
Oh, indeed I do. It's very much on the pulse of science.
must be quite a few out there who read both, with the overlap the natural they share :-)
The Oatmeal is also a firm favourite :-)
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