Swing is the GUI standard for Java. Clojure is the awesomeness standard for Java.
(via Stuart)
Tag Archives: Fun
Funny Java Standards
Sunday, January 31, 2010
The Experience of the Delight of Learning
Friday, January 22, 2010
The experience of the delight of learning is such a wonderful thing.
Have you felt it lately? How?
What is a beautiful font for printed quotes?
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Some time next month I plan to have a water bottle “pressed” with a custom logo on it. Part of the logo might contain a quote. I would like it to look great.
What is a beautiful font for printed quotes?
Carl Sagan’s Apple Pie
Saturday, November 21, 2009
I heard this joke a long time ago and somehow it never gets old, especially when the person telling the joke turns things around a bit.
His recipe is a classic; his sense of humor is hard to resist:
(image found via Neven)
Powerball Statistics
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
The Powerball people seem like a cool bunch of people. Check this out.
(via reddit)
Dorodango: Fun Mud Balls
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Dorodango is the practice of making shiny mud balls by hand. This started out for kids, and for all of us kids at heart this looks like great fun.
Wikipedia
Web-Japan
magiedubouddha
kyokyo-u
dorodango.com
(via ikarus)
A Letter From M.I.T.
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Check out this funny letter from a potential student to MIT.
(via reddit)
What Would You Have Said?
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
On my last project we had a lot of meetings that included “fluff”. This is not unique, especially in IT. What was different, though, was that every lead developer was expected to perform three-letter-acronym loaded monologues, nearly on a daily basis. On one particular afternoon I felt like I had really gone overboard. While the [...]
The Fun in Steampunk
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
the Steampunk genre possess a look of craftsmanship and cobbling. It’s an aesthetic that invites the touch of the human hand and it encourages engagement and foster curiosity and play.
– Rachel Hinman