The faces we pull when we are happy, sad or angry may be passed from generation to generation, according to researchers.

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Complexity happens. Simplicity, you have to strive for. Here's a blog post titled Simple is beautiful, written two years ago by Noel Llopis, that includes some gems of wisdom, including several quotes that I absolutely love.

Edsger W. Dijkstra in his lecture The Humble Programmer:

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Went on a tangent (as you do) from Google News and ended up viewing the source of the official homepage for the N.Korean government. Hmm, what's this? function MM_preloadImages()... Looks like Kimmy boy's a Dreamweaver man!

I'd love to see the registration information for this one:

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Turkey was told on Monday by the European Union that it had to safeguard freedom of expression in the country as a “matter of urgency” amid diminishing expectations that Ankara’s stalled membership bid can be revived.

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Interfaces in AS2 and AS3 are only half-baked. You can place methods in an interface but that's only half the equation. The other half, for applications that use the event model, is events. As it stands AS2 and AS3 do not support a method of defining the events that an interface must implement. Going forward, this is essential to have in ActionScript if interfaces are to be useful in the event model. It is not enough to know which public methods an interface supports but which events you can listen for on instances that implement a given interface.