Today I've spent some time implementing a new design for sorn.net which I came up with yesterday. I was trying to keep it plain and simple. I've spent even more time today reading through the archive of xkcd comics. I've read them all before but hadn't realised they all have funny ALT text as well. For example...

If you hover your mouse over this comic, you get the message:

RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number

Coincidentally, there are a random amount of recent blog posts, twitter messages and del.icio.us links displayed on the front page of sorn.net ;-)

HTML tags placed in images for fun. Click for larger images.

A colleague pointed me in the direction of lolcode - a programming language based on the lolcats. I found many compilers/interpreters on the website, and the one that really caught my eye was LOLCode.NET - a lolcode compiler for Microsoft's .NET runtime.

I just *had* to try that on Mono. Here's a screenshot of it working perfectly under Mono 1.2.4 on Mac OS X:

Update:
You can get the source code via SVN by following the instructions here. If you're trying to compile it on a Unix-like system (eg Linux, OS X), you'll need to place this Makefile in your lolcode-dot-net directory, and run make.

When I logged into my computer at work this morning, Windows decided to protect me from itself, and presented me with this:

Did you know that the fastest web searches in the world are done by pigeons? Neither did I until I came across that page on Google.

While on the subjects of pigeons in computing, Stephen sent me this link to a web page describing an actual implementation of RFC1149.

Did you know that the fastest web searches in the world are done by pigeons? Neither did I until I came across that page on Google.

While on the subjects of pigeons in computing, Stephen sent me this link to a web page describing an actual implementation of RFC1149.