Just goes to show you how hairy sendmail is — a single misplaced open-bracket, and suddenly your site switches into Craig-Shergold mode…

— Daniel F. Boyd

Baseball + Fist = Strip!


I’m tinkering with a web front-end for my new dictionary lookup tool, and every once in a while I stumble across something entertaining. I’m using full-text indexing (Sphinx) to create a half-assed English-to-Japanese dictionary out of the JMdict data, and one of the words I typed in was “strip”. There were 36 matching records, and one of them caught my eye: 野球拳, “strip version of rock-paper-scissors forfeit game”.

Standard rock-paper-scissors is じゃん拳. 野球 means baseball in every other compound word, but in this one case, it ain’t. I have no idea how it got that way, but this isn’t a dictionary error, as can be seen from this promotional video for the PSP game YA-Q-KEN (warning: poorly-subbed dialogue, delivered by really cute AV actresses). It appears to offer a total of 9 girls willing to work with their hands.

The DNA Experiment: Batch 8


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The DNA Experiment: Batch 7


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The DNA Experiment: Batch 6


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Dear Open Source community,


This is the sort of attitude that makes me want to bitch-slap some sense into the lot of you.

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The DNA Experiment: Batch 5


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Dear Macports port maintainers,


Um, “fail”.

building 'pycurl' extension
creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5
creating build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/src
-DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
 -I/opt/local/include -I/opt/local/include/python2.5
 -c src/pycurl.c -o
 build/temp.macosx-10.3-i386-2.5/src/pycurl.o
unable to execute -DNDEBUG: No such file or directory
error: command '-DNDEBUG' failed with exit status 1

The DNA Experiment: Batch 4


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