how to convert a human-readable time string, into seconds-since-epoch with Ruby 

Time.parse('Dec 14, 2010 11:14:26 PM').to_i

If you like "the farmer's market or the church bazaar" then you might also like the Etsy.

"To enhance the growing image of nastiness, [QA] team members began to dress in black (hence the name Black Team). They took to cackling horribly whenever a program failed. Some of the members grew long mustaches that they could twirl in Simon Legree fashion. They'd get together and work out ever more awful testing ploys. Programmers began to mutter about the diseased minds on the Black Team. Needless to say, the company was delighted. Every defect the team found was one that the customers wouldn't find."

" You grant Etsy access to your Facebook profile; it mines your friends' profiles; and then it recommends a bunch of products based on their likes and interests. "

Justin's project from Times Open Hack Day

php -a

DO NOT PUSH THE BUTTON

in PHPUnit, annotations are used to make assertions about exceptions thrown by test methods

via JWZ's blog, a paper on using the "I know where you've been" hack and others, to collect "oversharing" Web metrics

Etsy items from Ffffound.com