Weird, harmless fun.

What would happen if one tried to funnel Niagara Falls through a straw?

One would get in trouble with the International Niagara Committee, the International Niagara Board of Control, the International Joint Commission, the International Niagara Board Working Committe, and probably the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River Adaptive Management Committee. Also, the Earth would be destroyed.

Atlassian’s excellent Git client, SourceTree, was updated a few days ago. From their announcement:

…we’re prompting every user to enter their existing Atlassian account credentials or create an Atlassian account

Way to ruin something good.

Here’s what a chap called Scott Czepiel has to say about the number of ways a deck of 52 cards can be shuffled, a topic I briefly mentioned almost a year ago:

This number is beyond astronomically large. I say beyond astronomically large because most numbers that we already consider to be astronomically large are mere infinitesmal fractions of this number.

Read the whole page. It takes you on a phenomenal mental journey.

1. Open reddit preferences
2. Check “don’t show me submissions after I’ve upvoted them”
3. Check “don’t show me submissions after I’ve downvoted them”
4. Enjoy a completely new reddit experience

You’re welcome.