There are many interesting pages on this site. The brainfk and Intercal resources are a fun read, also the tiny executables. The Tile World downloads are a bit out-of-date though.

Congress tried this...and we got the sequester.

I participated in this contest, and solved this problem. The problem with the post is that it's basically saying "This correct ruby program is way slower than this incorrect go program, therefore ruby is bad for programming competitions". Obviously not a valid argument.