Daily Meh is an edited stream of consciousness, by Simen.

Knuth: The Bank of San Serriffe

To a geek, having Don Knuth admit you’ve found an error in one of his books is kind of like a Christian having Jesus admit they’ve taught him a lesson on the interpretation of scripture (or something). He’s been writing out checks in hexadecimal dollars (0x100 cent, or $2.56 dollars) to people who find errors in his books for forty years. Now he’s been forced to stop, because checks are too insecure. Instead, he’ll be distributing brownie points in the Bank of San Serriffe (I’m glad to see that name still in use). Which is just as well, since only 9 of the 275 checks he’s written out for this purpose have been cashed. The rest are trophies — and now all the world can see them. (via.)