Anarchaia: A tumblelog by Leah Neukirchen

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

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18aug2005

Off to Lloret de Mar, chris blogs and Anarchaia resume publishing on August 29, have a lot of fun.

#ruby-lang

15:50 <dagbrown> I was at a pub the other night, discussing continuations. (Yes, that's the kind of bar I go to)

15:50 <dagbrown> A continuation is like…when you start dating a girl, you create a continuation, right?

15:50 <dagbrown> And when things go wrong, you just restart from the continuation. Only the cool thing about continuations is that you have everything you learned since dating the girl.

15:51 <dagbrown> That's how continuations work!

Preparing for a Culture Shock, they’d need to pry Emacs from my cold, dead, hands.

Oahu2-383 by lightpainter

HesaSys is a GPL’d OpenSource CMS. And, you won’t believe it, the first CMS I see that has a valid XHTML website! Kudos to the developers.

Blogger for Word, it’s a small click for users, but a huge leap backwards for semantic HTML on the web.

Und dann fragst du mich, was schaust du am liebsten
Und ich sage Naturfilme, weil man da sehen kann
Wie schön die Welt ist und was die Tiere tun
Wohin die Vögel ziehn, wenn es kalt wird in Berlin.
— Funny van Dannen, Naturfilme

Oocli Fantasies, and I tell you, OO-pipes will never be successful under a Unixish operating system.

Stoned scientists by Dana Larsen. “Marijuana and psychedelics have inspired many of the modern world’s greatest minds.”

Looking for a few good men, Joel Reymont needs some experienced Lispers for his uptick software.

ThoughtDiscussions are like a Moebius strip, you go around and around until you notice you are both on the same side.

Tracking Lispmeister.com Visitors using Google Maps, cool mapping hack.

#ruby-lang

15:11 <dagbrown> You can instantiate anything you want at Alice's Class Factory.

emmène moi by In'A

Tweak is a media authoring environment for children of all ages for Squeak.

Dispatching in a REST Protocol Application by Joe Gregorio. Provides a rather nice mapping of REST to method calls.

Aha-Effekt, Nr. 384, die Finger werden übrigens nicht schmutzig, wenn man Besteck verwendet.

May I be boiled in oil And fried in Crisco If I ever call San Francisco, “Frisco” — Ogden Nash

As Simple As Possible? by Chuck Allison. I didn’t even know C++ people knew what “simple” means.

A compact example of a failed counter-terrorism policy by OzJuggler. “Using violence against violence” does not work. News at 11. Good collection nevertheless.

I don’t need your civil war
It feeds the rich while it buries the poor
Your power hungry sellin’ soldiers
In a human grocery store
Ain’t that fresh
I don’t need your civil war
— Guns’n’Roses, Civil War

Sho raykOm ?! by ã7lã ŢÃM¥

#ruby-lang

14:37 <kig> is it ethical to shut down emacs?

14:37 <kig> how about vi!?

14:37 <zem> is it ethical to make a sentient computer run emacs?

14:37 <zem> ("oh my god, there's emacs in my head!")

A comparison of Django with Rails at magpiebrain, I think it’s one of the more neutral ones.

Doron Zeilberger on how to explain mathematics found at Wadler’s Blog.

Anmerkungen zu: Peter Krieg, “Die paranoide Marschine” von Eberhard von Goldammer (PDF). Die ganze Geschichte (siehe auch Pile Systems) scheint in einem Sumpf metaphilosophischer Scheisse unterzugehen. Nur für postmoderne Interpretation geeignet. Vielleicht ist es ja Kunst.