Recently I started watching a new TV show from CBS named The Big Bang Theory. It's a sitcom about two geeks who live next to an amazingly (all right, not that amazing, but still) pretty girl, and how they and their two geek friends interact with her. The episodes are relatively short – about 20 minutes each, but i find it very funny. Geeks like me will enjoy it the most, i guess, because it makes a lot of references to sci-fi and physics, but "normal" people should like it too.

That last bit is interesting. Usually you would expect geeks to be computer geeks. As i mentioned, These guys are physics doctors (and one engineer). I assume it makes it more interesting this way.

16 episodes have already been aired. Watch it on CBS, or, if you don't have CBS, find it on a file sharing network near you.

Slashdot reported about a talk by Bjarne Stoustrup, the inventor of C++, about the next generation of the programming language. The following are three comments by Slashdot readers:

some 15 year old girl from Pennsylvania won $25,000 for typing supercalifragilisticexpialidocious in 15 seconds! crazy!

ever found yourself sitting in a boring lecture, presentation, conference, seminar, or whatever, and thinking to your self: "when will this ever end??" the boredum is over, with bullshit bingo (another one. reload for more words)! it's like regular bingo, only that instead of numbers, you have common buzz words, like Out of the loop, Benchmark, Value-added, Proactive, Bandwidth, Win-win, Think outside the box, Fast track and others. each time you hear a buzz word you have on your card, mark it. when you have a line or a column, stand up and shout: BULLSHIT.

the scifi channel's Battlestar Galactica page (excellent show, btw) runs this ad for visual studio. it made me have a good laugh!

(if you don't know, this series is about the remnents of human civilisation, running away in space from a race of robots called cylons, which they created.)

(if you don't know 2, visual studio is a software development enviroment)