A quite brilliant CS Research Topic Generator from Purdue. Includes a literature search for the generated topic.

This is a brilliant video (embedded below from YouTube) of the relationship between designer and client. NSFW. Been there. It’s made using Xtranormal which is a very cool site for turning a script into an animation. You just type in your script and directions and out pops a movie with Lego like people. (Other people are available). Great fun to play with.

Programming is to engineering as poetry is to writing.

Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion... When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.