Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13sep2005
Generic implementation of all four *F* operators: from control0 to shift, I love such stuff.
Sun Censored but Not Silent, “Top business publications refused to run our bold ad concepts because the headlines were thought too controversial. At Sun, we’re the radical engineers that build “ass-whoopin” technology—we’re not Miss Manners and we never want to be.” Suddenly, I like Sun a lot better… ;-)
Memeorandum is a kind of meta-aggregator that tries to make a newspaper out of the blogosphere. A special tech related site exists too.
I recognize the look
In my eyes when I see you
It s the look of one who loves you
Who wants nothing ‘cept to be with you
It is not the look that often
Gets returned in kind
— Dan Bern, One Dance
The Box Doodle Project by David Hofmann. “The rules are quite simple: rearrange a box to make any kind of figure or object.” Check that out.
APPD-Wahlwerbespot, “Mit voller Absicht gegen den guten Geschmack” auf telepolis.
Yahoo! goes hard gay, uh?
Plugging Haskell In, by André Pang, Don Stewart, Sean Seefried, and Manuel M. T. Chakravarty. “We show that Haskell can be comfortably used as a statically typed extension language, and that it can support type-safe dynamic loading of plugins using dynamic types.” I’d never have thought of that.
Diff-Sexp is mentioned at lemonodor. In Ruby, we have diff-lcs.
RubyForge Mailman cleanup, Tom Copeland says how he did it.
On Standardizing Object-Oriented Forth Extensions, featuring an explanation of the Neon/Yerk model.
Tumblelog, Marcus Vorwaller says: “Tumblelogging is bound to grow–as of today there are 540 Google results for “tumblelog.” I predict 10,000 within 6 months.”. (It hurts me a bit if he says “the best example (by far) is the gorgeous Projectionist website, as it’s the only other tumblelog that’s active right now that I know of…)
Won’t you help to sing
These songs of freedom? —
’cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
— Bob Marley, Redemption Song
Are Design Patterns How Languages Evolve? by Jeff Atwood, containing the wonderful conclusion: “If anything, Lisp is strong evidence that computer language evolution is quite slow; it’s one of the oldest languages on the chart, and we’re still adapting features from it.”