Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
31mar2005
Aber auch die Ueberfluessigen thun noch wichtig mit ihrem Sterben, und auch die hohlste Nuss will noch geknackt sein. — Friedrich Nietzsche, Also sprach Zarathustra
Notable SSIDs found during a (really) quick wardrive in Munich:
kaisicher (but without WEP ;-)), Tequila, Dahoam, mrpink,
pornostar, and about ten thousand WLAN.
A chart of icons from various interfaces via /.
Three Blondes on Easter.
Wordpress Website’s Search Engine Spam.
I love my G4. I do too, but I only have an iBook. *sniff*
I would have a hard time imagining hiring a programmer who was still on Windows for 37signals. If you don’t care enough about your tools to get the best, your burden of proof just got a lot heavier. — David Heinemeier Hansson
The State Of The Mac by David Heinemeier Hansson.
Oh, don’t it hurt deep inside,
to see someone do something to hurt
Oh, don’t it pain to see someone cry,
Oh, especially when someone is her
— Tremeloes, Silence Is Golden
30mar2005
Some people will offer you their hand and some won’t
Last night I knew you, tonight I don’t
I need somethin’ strong to distract my mind
I’m gonna look at you ‘til my eyes go blind
— Bob Dylan, Mississippi
Kottke on gluehands. Oh I love that too. Or the feeling when you have glue between your fingers and press them together and open them again.
CONS Should Not CONS Its Arguments, Part II: Cheney on the M.T.A.
The Return of the Mac by Paul Graham.
Chandler User Diary 3.23.05 by Mitch Kapor. The most true thing I ever read on the Chandler site.
It’s a Three Way Race to the Finish! Who Will Be the Champion? Best K5 poll for months.
Move over Ruby on Rails, Java can be concise too! And “Java in Jails”, as Hal Fulton calls it, is so concise.
And I’ve seen your flag on the marble arch
and love is not a victory march
It’s a cold and it’s a broken Hallelujah
— Jeff Buckley, Hallelujah
29mar2005
Marginalutility @ 43things, NSFW. This, of course, is too a way to use social websites. :-)
Richard Gabriel thinks Lisp’s (only) 30% better than C/C++.
Note that rpg also said that Our current popular languages are
designed to help losers lose less.
APL is like a diamond. It has a beautiful crystal structure; all of its parts are related in a uniform and elegant way. But if you try to extend this structure in any way - even by adding another diamond - you get an ugly kludge. LISP, on the other hand, is like a ball of mud. You can add any amount of mud to it and it still looks like a ball of mud. — Joel Moses
Copypolice.de defaced. Schni-, Scha-, Schappi pwned you, mmmkay?
Ruby/Mono is a Ruby extension library to embed Mono in Ruby.
Quote Colors is an Thunderbird extension to show different quote levels in different colors. Something Gnus can do for ages. ;-)
Perl (by Larry Wall) is a popular utility language. However, the shell support is rather low level. Worse, the language is essentially a collection of useful features without an overall design. — Per Bothner, A Programming-Language Shell
Blackbox 0.70 release. And you thought it was dead. :-) Still, I switched to fluxbox, and recently I’m very confident with E16.
Sage is a lightweight feed reader for Firefox. Apparently doesn’t save the entries’ content on disk, though. That would be needed for full-text searching.
KirbyBase is a simple, pure-Ruby, flat-file database management system.
The day that Elvis died was like a mercy killing
America breathed a sigh of relief
We knew all about the drugs and the Vegas shows
And there wasn’t much of anything that looked like grief
— Dan Bern, Too Late To Die Young
Finished in 0.00503700000000004 seconds.
Floating-point arithmetic always amazes me again.
28mar2005
IsOdd()? Yes, Is Very Odd. The Daily WTF always amazes me anew.
Penny sculptures, that keep together by their own weight without glue. Via BoingBoing.
The +linux.de Wiki now runs on MediaWiki.
Avoid standardism: Good standards can provide interoperability and portability. Bad standards can stifle innovation. “supports XXX standard” is not a real user requirement, particulary if XXX was designed by a committee of “experts” who, throughout the entire process, never once ate their own dogfood. The best software is developed by trial, error and experimentation. — hibernate.org, Why is this project sucessful?
Merged Ruby Packages Of Debian Are Now Available. It’s been about time, but finally they did it. :-) Nice job
Heavy Metal Umlaut: The Movie. John Udell traces the evolution of a Wiki page. (BTW, John, LaTeX is not pronounced “laytex”, but “laytech”.)
Map & Reduce are used at Google to distribute processing of large data sets.
A Tutorial on Behavioral Reflection and its Implementation by J. Malenfant, M. Jacques and F.-N. Demers
In the same way well-defined recursions never require an infinite number of recursive calls, a well-defined reflective program never uses an infinite number of embedded reflective procedure calls. — A Tutorial on Behavioral Reflection and its Implementation
Weekly Ruby-users’ statistic at last.fm. Lot of Nirvana on there…
Since I found that I often stuble on links to interesting things, but never or only rarely blog about them on chris blogs, I thought I’d create another blog, Anarchaia where I can keep links, quotes, lines of lyrics and pictures. Now and then I’ll interspense some ramblings, but the editorial content will stay less than a paragraph. This section is an exception.
The format of the blog will be quite like Dave Winers scripting.com, except for the annoying links to Scoble. Also, it’s not my fault that RSS and OPML exist and look what they are. :-)
27mar2005
Paul Graham’s “On Wanking”, a nice fake by idlewords.
Slashdot converting to XHTML/CSS?. Unbelievable.
Guestblock, nicest guestbook I ever saw. Add a colorful block to the stack and leave a message.
Violent Flash animation done by the MN student that shot ten people. Who said kids couldn’t express themselves in art? Now if just someone listened…
Transparent screens at flickr. Very nice.
Hey, na-na-na-na, hey that’s something
Hey, na-na-na-na, hey that’s something
Hey, na-na-na-na, hey that’s something
— Pearl Jam, State of Love and Trust
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