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After seeing this post on MLKSHK, I want to find out if it was true - are there really that many phrases in modern use that were coined by Shakespeare? Turns out it's mostly true, with many of them being Shakespeare originals and a few more being popularised by him.

This custom Lego creation a simply amazing - more than 80,000 bricks to re-create the 1884 Chicago Home Insurance Building, the world's first skyscraper.

You can view the full photo set to see the 60 individual segments.

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While any kind of heavy-duty factory machinery is inherently interesting to engineers, there is something particularly awesome about a video sequence that's captioned with "Automatically aligning the mushrooms". Set to trance music.

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A fascinating look at early maps of the world. The relative scales vary wildly.

With all the current excitement about leaked password databases, I thought I'd take the time to make doing it the right way a bit easier. If you're working on a PHP app, start using lib_bcrypt right now.

This is an excellent idea for business cards.

Hopefully you're already familiar with the reference. And the meme.

Meissner bodies are fascinating. Wikipedia has a little on them, but there's some more detail on MathOverflow.

The image is Copyright Christof Weber 2009, who wrote an excellent paper about them and has set up an interactive java demo.

You can also buy your own set to play with.

If you play wow on intel integrated graphics and you've been freezing on the last boss in hour of twilight, this thread contains the answer.

pathod seems like it'd be useful for testing any code that consumes a service over http [via torrez]

12 factor app says a lot of good things that i agree with, but the server-process model rule is odd. there doesn't seem to be an obvious reason why the php/apache/processes model is wrong, but it's not allowed. uh?