Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01dec2005
24 ways to impress your friends, an web advent calendar. Yay.
Stirring Sound of Stress, why we sometimes wake up a minute before the alarm rings.
Es gibt vielerlei Lärme. Aber es gibt nur eine Stille. — Kurt Tucholsky, “Zwei Lärme”
New Orleans’s New Connection, City-Owned WiFi System To Be Announced Today. Now, how can I flood our town to get free WiFi? }}:-)
Gib AIDS keine Chance, und nicht nur am 1. Dezember.
Happy birthday, Woody Allen, you’re one of the best ever, gratulations from me too.
Binge drinking ‘triples risk of dementia’, I totally forgot about that.
X-ray Woman, scroll down to make the clothing vanish. NSFW.
Sicherheit in Mobilen Ad hoc Netzwerken (PDF) by Frank Kargl.
The Ruby For Positioning Device project is a set of Ruby programs that allows reading GPS-related information from GPS receivers (GPSr) and saving them in a more appropriate and open format (GPX).
The day they found a cure for aids
Everybody took one little pill and was okay
The people who had plotted to get rid of all the gays
Admitted their guilt and then everything was fine
Everybody else said ‘i didn’t know’
The day they found a cure
— Dan Bern, Cure For Aids
The “3DM” XML 3-way Merging and Differencing Tool by Tancred Lindholm.
“Your music is valuable…” by Robert Daeley. Of course, I backup my DRM-free music…
The “parked domain monetization” business, Joi Ito explains.
The future of security is driven by the hacker. — Gene Hodges, McAfee president
The Twenty Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities can be found at SANS.org.
bobdc.blog, Bob DuCharme has a new weblog.
Attention Networks vs. Social Networks on apophenia. “The world is not an undirected graph and very little about social life online is actually undirected.”
Nobody Really Cares about the Creative Class by Bob Hutchison.
Some Lispers are Retro, John Wiseman presents three retro-lisping projects. I love the idea.
Was Ivan the Terrible Really “Terrible”? by MarshallPoe.
Lock-Free Data Structures using STMs in Haskell by Anthony Discolo, Tim Harris, Simon Marlow, Simon Peyton Jones, and Satnam Singh.
No Xmas for Sony protest badge, very good idea.
wiesu macht Wiener Würstchen aus Tofu. Igitt.
Dojo Done Quick, AJAX toolkit tutorial.
What if there were a Hotspot VM that ran Ruby instead of Java, without any loss of performance, and a version of Eclipse written in and for this new platform? Avi philosophizes.
I had a man, who was long and tall,
Moved his body like a cannon ball.
Fare thee well, my honey, fare thee well.
— Bob Dylan, Dink’s Song
Firefox 1.5, I just updated it and it works very well.
The Trouble with Observer by John Vlissides. How to rewrite a MVC view with the Visitor pattern.