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Coding Horror
programming and human factors
by Jeff Atwood

December 14, 2006

Percentage of Chart Which Resembles Ms. Pac-Man

I couldn't resist.

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In the innocent era of 8-bit arcades, you made characters female by adding a cute little pixelated red bow. Just like in Ms. Sawhorse Detective.

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Maybe it's just the color choices (probably the black background resembling space), but your image looks like a space helmet (female of course). :D

Tim on December 15, 2006 03:30 PM

“For example, this light grey area could represent hangout time. Whereas this dark grey area could represent just kicking it.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tBLikuVn-4

PC is so awesome.

Jeff Atwood on December 15, 2006 03:39 PM

Cute! But shouldn't it be the yellow AND the red areas that resemble Ms. Pac-Man?

mahalie on December 15, 2006 04:08 PM

That's sooo funny, I love it. It's a nice follow up to the original one:

http://craphound.com/images/pacmancharthumor.jpg

The Geek on December 15, 2006 09:24 PM

Just noticed that you linked to the original already... doh!

The Geek on December 15, 2006 09:25 PM

I once ate a pie like that: http://greg.desigfx.com:8086/gallery.php?i=18

Greg Poole on December 15, 2006 10:25 PM

Reminds me of: http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ninja_turtles.png

Marco on December 16, 2006 01:25 AM

Thanks for a chuckle.

Jae on December 16, 2006 09:33 AM

shudnt ms. pacman be called pacwoman...:)

Samrat patil on December 18, 2006 01:25 AM

Did you guys steal this from us????

We posted this like years ago.

http://www.pactionary.com

Cmdr. Chesticle on April 20, 2007 10:25 AM







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