This is “awesome” if you’ve never seen Torvalds do this, which he’s been doing consistently for 20 years. By now, it’s just him trying to play to the crowd with a bunch of tired insults. It’s strange that a hacker as talented as Torvalds seems to feel the need to prop up his own ego just by shouting at people, and…

in a fit of In a fit of prophetic brilliance, the Daily Show’s election coverage was branded “Indecision 2000.”

Hacker News's predictably terrible attempt to discuss this lasted only 7 posts before apparently running afoul of the site's automated "we'd rather not talk about this" logic and being banished from the front page.

I highly recommend clicking through and reading the whole OTL story. It is very, very good.

Stanford researchers, you say? Quelle surprise.

The Hugh Jackman musical number was written by Dan Harmon and Rob Schrab (Harmon's frequent collaborator, also the director of The Sarah Silverman Program). Schrab's visual aesthetic is heavily apparent in the sketch.

The Hall may have a third option: disqualify the ballot without counting it by comparing incoming ballots to Deadspin's vote results. (This assumes that this data is gatherable in some form other than individually reading every comment from tomorrow until 12/29.)

How Unicron tore the Transformers' homeworld apart.

ROLE TIDE

That was not Gus Johnson. It was Dan Dibley, although your point still stands. Dibley doesn't usually do the Goooool call, he was just losing his mind at that particular moment.