Anarchaia

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

08sep2005

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I’d never had on a computer before. — Andy Hertzfeld

A Bialgebraic Review of Regular Expressions, Deterministic Automata and Languages by Bart Jacobs. This is something to rack your brain.

What would you put in a Computer Science Curriculum?, Dan Zambonini asks. Maybe I’m too idealistic, but with an ordinary CS degree, every student should be able to decide whether to use SAX or DOM—after reading about both processing models, whether he learned about them or not.

DSCN0138 by Rob Mac

Rails goes to School, “I know of an undergraduate course in Scotland that will include a section using Ruby on Rails”. I wonder what for?

Xerox Mesa Programming, an introduction. I prefer Smalltalk, though.

Als die Kubakrise die Welt bedrohte, war ich gerade mal vier.
Und dann ging es weiter in Vietnam und dann gab’s in Hawaii kein Bier.
Ich blieb sitzen und sagte: Lieber Gott, mir wird das alles zuviel.
Also ich hatte schon vor dem 11. September oft ein Scheißgefühl.
— Funny van Dannen, 11. September

Microsoft Windows keybd_event validation vulnerability by Andrés Tarascó and Iñaki Lopez. “Type: Design Flaw”, you just gotta love it.

Mint by mali_cia

EZD: Interactive structured graphics in Scheme->C.

“Zeigt her Eure Namen” von Twister (Bettina Winsemann). “Pseudonyme können lebenswichtig sein: Wenn der elektronische Pranger zu Lynchjustiz anregt.”

Joggen macht schlabberich, Laufen sei “Gift für Hängebusen und Cellulite”. Das ist zwar falsch formuliert, aber macht Sinn.

And we don’t need reason and we don’t need logic
Cause we’ve got feelin’ and we’re very proud of it
Speeding motorcycle, lets just go
Speeding motorcycle, lets go lets go lets go
— Mary Lou Lord, Speeding Motorcycle

Heavy metals in Japan, no, this is not about music. Scary.

Miralls d'aigua by Ave Fenix

Automating Stylesheet Creation by Bob DuCharme. Yippee, XSLT metaprogramming!

Ruby Development Basecamp account, but I don’t have an account yet. :-)

As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation with Tomer Moscovich and John F. Hughes. Sounds fun.