(IOCCC is one of my favorite sites ever!) Whose participant makefile? I had a look to a couple of them but found nothing unorthodox. The code itself, on the other hand... OMG! Some of those guys are really geniuses.

[QUOTE=LaurV;332352](IOCCC is one of my favorite sites ever!) Whose participant makefile? I had a look to a couple of them but found nothing unorthodox. The code itself, on the other hand... OMG! Some of those guys are really geniuses.[/QUOTE]

From the look of it, they all had a Makefile written by the organizers, slightly modified for each program. I've just looked at a few other 2012 entries and they do all have the same Makefile. You need to look at and below the "utility rules".

[url]http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/scientists-perfect-mouse-re-cloning-to-the-25th-generation[/url]

In the story, they've managed to clone mice "perfectly" to the 25th generation.

Stephen King is probably one of the best grammar rule-breakers there is, imco.

Who's your favorite grammar rule-breaker, and where can I obtain their stuff?

Edit: Oops, I'll start a new thread.

[url]http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/pink-floyd-dark-side-40-years-later-40-205227757.html[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;332649][URL]http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/pink-floyd-dark-side-40-years-later-40-205227757.html[/URL][/QUOTE]

Thanks for that!

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;332649][URL]http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-the-presses/pink-floyd-dark-side-40-years-later-40-205227757.html[/URL][/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]“Money” is one of the few hit singles ever to utilize a 7/4 time signature.[/QUOTE]While the article is quite right about the special place for [I]Money[/I] in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Great_Dance_Songs"]delectably undanceable[/URL] music (7/4+4/4 meter), they were pretty tame with time signatures compared to, say, [URL="http://hooksanalysis.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/oddly-not-odd-meter-jethro-tull-a-new-day-yesterday-1969/"]Jetthro[/URL] Tull. (And not to mention the fab Four's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_is_Love"]7/4+4/4[/URL] quite a few years earlier.)

Anyway, great article! Good tips about spoken bits (and Peter Watts and Jerry...) Hey, they forgot the 41st tip: the full quote from Jerry the electrician is "[I]There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark. [/I]This is true. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.[I]" [/I](Only the italicized portion was used, ~15s before the end of last track. There's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Albums:_Pink_Floyd_%E2%80%93_The_Making_of_The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon"]a DVD[/URL] that accompanied the 2003 30 year release which is great for extra facts.)

[QUOTE=Batalov;332709]While the article is quite right about the special place for [I]Money[/I] in the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Collection_of_Great_Dance_Songs"]delectably undanceable[/URL] music (7/4+4/4 meter), they were pretty tame with time signatures compared to, say, [URL="http://hooksanalysis.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/oddly-not-odd-meter-jethro-tull-a-new-day-yesterday-1969/"]Jetthro[/URL] Tull. (And not to mention the fab Four's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_is_Love"]7/4+4/4[/URL] quite a few years earlier.)

Anyway, great article! Good tips about spoken bits (and Peter Watts and Jerry...) Hey, they forgot the 41st tip: the full quote from Jerry the electrician is "[I]There is no dark side of the moon really, as a matter of fact it's all dark. [/I]This is true. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.[I]" [/I](Only the italicized portion was used, ~15s before the end of last track. There's [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Albums:_Pink_Floyd_%E2%80%93_The_Making_of_The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon"]a DVD[/URL] that accompanied the 2003 30 year release which is great for extra facts.)[/QUOTE]

Interesting site, that Hooks, as well as the analysis of "New Day Yesterday." Tull remains a favorite in this household, though Floyd probably has been getting more play of late.

As long as strange signatures are the topic, let's not forget St. Frank of Zappa. I can't come up with any specific examples, but I remember things with 13ths, or maybe 17ths (as in triplets which grew.) Actually, now that I reflect, there is a live number called "The Blue Light." It begins [QUOTE]
Your Ethos
Your Pathos
Your Porthos
Your Aramis
Your Brut Cologne
You're writing home
You are hopeless
Your hopelessness
Is rising around you, rising around you
You like it
It gives you something to do
In the day time[/QUOTE]More here-
[URL]http://wiki.killuglyradio.com/wiki/The_Blue_Light[/URL]

It has some pretty weird times in it.

Science!
[YOUTUBE]jrje73EyKag[/YOUTUBE]

[QUOTE]Science![/QUOTE]That would be a real pane to haul around.

:razz:

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Is that Batman playing Black?

... and missing his bat-ear hood and face mask because he's lost the first two rounds of strip chess?[/QUOTE]

Speaking of two projections on top of the head ...

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