Greetings…
I welcome you to a happy space of respite and enjoyment at the end of this rather busy week. I hope that your programs have successfully compiled, that all error messages were descriptive, and that your bugs were indeed features. There is of course a 90% chance that the opposite happened, but that’s the joy of working with computers is it not 
(Don’t forget TGIF over at Seo-Scoop!
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Without further ado…
Cult stuff:
banana problem: n.
[from the story of the little girl who said “I know how to spell ‘banana’, but I don't know when to stop”]. Not knowing where or when to bring a production to a close (compare fencepost error). One may say there is a banana problem of an algorithm with poorly defined or incorrect termination conditions, or in discussing the evolution of a design that may be succumbing to featuritis.
Please send:
The Chumby squishy media player – it streams all your favorite stuff from RSS feeds to news and all sorts. And it’s squishy.
The very cool lego chair – not sure how comfortable it is, but it looks awesome.
Cucciolo 2005 bike – a modern version of the Ducati 1946 Cucciolo (motor powered bicycle) – please send immediately!
One Laptop per child – A project close to my heart, led by Nicholas Negroponte - buy one for you, send one to a deprived child – easy
Lexeme of the week:
“Dead tree edition”
“I can’t believe he made me give him the dead tree edition of the file”
Code of the week:
% ^How did the sex change operation go?^
Modifier failed.
Geek tweet of the week:
“You know you are in silicon valley when: there is a guy wearing a “Will work for L$” tshirt at the Coffee shop” @dajobe
Time-sink of the week:
Space Invaders made by Neave Games
The bike project looks like loads of fun! When I worked at a bike repair shop we hooked an electrical motor up to a trike for a customer (he had suffered a stroke and needed to go from 2 wheels to 3), was loads of fun to ride when we were finished.
This is like 100x one-upping us, full blown petrol engine, it even looks pretty cool.
Lego chair looks ace but it would probably be a bit sticky in the sun (like cheap patio furniture) especially down your way where its about 1000x hotter than here.
Thank you, CJ.