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From Jason Garrett-Glaser’s analysis of Google’s VP8 (emphasis mine):

But first, a comment on the spec itself.

AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

The spec consists largely of C code copy-pasted from the VP8 source code — up to and including TODOs, “optimizations”, and even C-specific hacks, such as workarounds for the undefined behavior of signed right shift on negative numbers. In many places it is simply outright opaque. Copy-pasted C code is not a spec. I may have complained about the H.264 spec being overly verbose, but at least it’s precise. The VP8 spec, by comparison, is imprecise, unclear, and overly short, leaving many portions of the format very vaguely explained. Some parts even explicitly refuse to fully explain a particular feature, pointing to highly-optimized, nigh-impossible-to-understand reference code for an explanation. There’s no way in hell anyone could write a decoder solely with this spec alone.

And the result of this type of spec?

The encoder and decoder share a staggering amount of code. This means that any bug in the common code will affect both, and thus won’t be spotted because it will affect them both in a matching fashion.

A patch to fix a bug in the decoder has already been removed instead of fixing the same bug in the encoder.

Jilion’s HTML5 plugin-free video player shows us what a video on the web may look like in a few years time.

For those of you too cheap to buy the full replays from PSALive.tv, Channel M have highlights of the World Squash Championships in Manchester this year that you can watch online for free.

Currently only the women’s highlights on available for view, although the men’s should be up soon.

I take back what I said, on Guitar Hero III, completing DragonForce’s Through the Fire and Flames on Expert with 100% notes hit isn’t impossible. But it is fucking hard.

Some seriously bad knockoffs of Pixar’s Ratatouille and Cars, called Ratatoing and The Little Cars. (Via MetaFilter.)

Dove Evolution Parody.

A woman buys a guys place in line for an iPhone for $800 with the intention of buying the entire stock at the AT&T store to sell on eBay. Then she is told there is a one phone per customer limit, hilarity ensues.