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In case you missed it… HBO unveiled the first trailer for Season 3 of True Blood. Looks good.

Categorization is hard. Categorization of code is boring. This list (made up of responses to a question posted on Stack Overflow) spices it up a bit by giving you FUN ways to talk about your most dreaded bugs, design patterns, and lack of documentation. A few of my favorites:

• Banana Banana Banana: Placeholder text indicating that documentation is in progress or yet to be completed. Mostly used because FxCop complains when a public function lacks documentation.
• Bugfoot: A bug that isn’t reproducible and has been sighted by only one person.
• Counterbug: A defensive move useful for code reviews. If someone reviewing your code presents you with a bug that’s your fault, you counter with a counterbug: a bug caused by the reviewer.
• Shrug Report: A bug report with no error message or “how to reproduce” steps and only a vague description of the problem. Usually contains the phrase “doesn’t work.”
• Smug Report: A bug report submitted by a user who thinks he knows a lot more about the system’s design than he really does. Filled with irrelevant technical details and one or more suggestions (always wrong) about what he thinks is causing the problem and how we should fix it.

[Via New Programming Jargon — Global Nerdy.]

Remember the short film Pixels, where video game characters from the ’80s take over New York? Happy Madison is turning it into a feature-length film. This news comes just a week and a half after Heat Vision noted that Hollywood is feeling shorts fatigue:

Now Hollywood is suffering a shorts overdose. Execs and agents realize a guy with a computer can create a spaceship over a city but wonder if that person can tell a story. And not just once, in a hyped-up short.

Adam Sandler seems to think this short has something special. Watch it again below because it’s just that awesome. Here’s hoping they don’t screw it up…

The French filmmaker behind “Pixels,” Patrick Jean, has teamed up with Adam Sandler’s production banner Happy Madison to develop a big-screen take. The team is in talks with Columbia, where Happy Madison has its first-look deal, to set up the project at the studio.

[Via Adam Sandler taking Pixels to big-screen.]

Trying to decide whether to implement that great HTML5 or CSS3 feature you just read about? Take a look at the HTML5 & CSS3 readiness dashboard to see if it’s supported in your target browsers. It’s not the most visually informative or user-friendly way of presenting the data but it works. It’s also neat to compare the state of the browser in 2010 with 2009 or 2008.

[Via: information aesthetics]

I’m a big fan of Fallout 3 (and of the greater post-apocalyptic genre) so I am very excited for New Vegas. Destructoid has the details on the collector’s edition which will be available when the game is released this fall.

[Via: Destructoid]