This year it’s $24,203.18, or 3,5 percent more than last year.

(via mental_floss)

This project comes from one of my favorite Simpsons episodes which has a scene where Mr. Burns brings Homer to his mansion. One of his rooms has a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. One of the monkeys writes a slightly incorrect line from Charles Dickens “It was the best of times, it was blurst of times.”  The joke is a play on the theory that a million monkeys sitting at a million typewriters will eventually produce Shakespeare.  And that is what I did.  I created millions of monkeys on Amazon EC2 (then my home computer) and put them at virtual typewriters (aka Infinite Monkey Theorem).

So far, Jesse’s virtual monkeys and typewriters have randomly created The Tempest, The Winters Tale, The Merchant of Venice and many more. I  recommend bookmarking his post so you can follow the progress. (via Ars Technica)

The Compact Calendar is a printable calendar in an Excel spreadsheet, designed to be easy to use for impromptu planning by yourself or with a group of people. It’s provided in three styles, and has been localized for different countries by generous volunteers from around the world.

Great for quick scheduling and time estimation.

Notable additions include man cave, NSFW, ZOMG and permalink.

(via Neatorama)

You can make donations in the amounts of €2, €5, €10, €20 from your wallet in the PlayStation Store. With your donation, you’ll get a free Sunrise Blossom Theme for your PlayStation 3.

A great idea, hats off to Sony.

• Eurogamer has an excellent article on Axel Gembe, the boy responsible for leaking the code of Half-Life 2 onto the Internet back in 2004.
• Conan’s parody of the iPad 2 is hilarious.
• The Twitter Engineering Blog has a post detailing how they made a faster garbage collector for Ruby by adding an additional heap.
• The Khronos Group released the final version of their WebGL 1.0 specification today.