There's a show called World Poker Tour. Every week they show the final table of 9 players from a tournament in which a couple of hundred people compete. Week after week, this is what you see:

• A small elite of tournament pros who get to the final tables time after …

From the AP wire:

FALLUJAH, Iraq - In Fallujah's darkened, empty streets, U.S. troops blast AC/DC's "Hell's Bells" and other rock music full volume from a huge speaker, hoping to grate on the nerves of this Sunni Muslim city's gunmen and give a laugh to Marines along the front …

This is quite interesting. Open source Implementations of the missing data structures of the FCL: linked list, doubly linked list, tree, skip list, heap, etc... Focus is made on robustness, standard conformance, documentation and testing of the collections.  via [Sam Gentile's Blog]

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Jason Nadal has posted an RSS reader that uses the Longhorn text-to-speech APIs to actually read you the morning news while you do other things. Includes source. via [Marquee de Sells: Chris's insight outlet]

I love sample code that is actually helpful...

via William Bartholomew:

Fritz Onion has posted an interesting article about how to write ASP.NET projects without using Web Projects and the associated bindings to IIS etc.

http://staff.develop.com/onion/Samples/aspdotnet_without_web_projects.htm

TTFN - Kent

via [Kent Sharkey's blog]

I haven't seen this referenced before:

Microsoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API MapMicrosoft Win32 to Microsoft .NET Framework API Map

via [Eric Gunnerson's C# Compendium]

Which one of these three loops is the most efficient? How can I prove the answer?

I've listed the source code below. The three loops are:

1. ::: {.MsoNormal} Foreach over an int array :::

2. ::: {.MsoNormal} Simple for over an int array :::

3. ::: {.MsoNormal} For over an int array, hoisting out the length value …

Some guy managed to build a DIY "steady-cam" for \$14 (those things which help keep TV crews keep their videocameras from shaking while they're running around shooting reality shows), which might not sound like a big deal until you realize that a professional Steadicam (that's the brand name) costs around …

Jetway sells a new small form factor PC called the 860Twin that can be used by two people at the same time. via [Engadget]

Useful for pair programming?

Quick links for a dictionary of algorithms and data structures and a book on exact string matching algorithms. (via HotLinks) More bedtime reading Update: The memory management reference, via Simon's linklog.... via [Curiosity is bliss]

Helpful.