Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
02jan2006
20 Menschen in eingestürzter Eishalle vermisst, Mindestens vier Menschen sind beim Einsturz des Dachs einer Eissporthalle in Bad Reichenhall ums Leben gekommen, darunter auch ein Kind.
2005 music wrap-up by Jamie Zawinski. “In 2005, I bought approximately 124 albums…”
The Comprehensive GNU/Linux User’s Manual (Fiction) by Morkney. WJW.
Printf to String, awesome implementation at TheDailyWTF.
Advanced Auto-Dependency Generation for GNU Make.
Akutagawa Ryûnosuke’s “The Spider Thread”: Translation and Commentary by Timothy M. Kelly. “This man Kandata is a murderer, an arsonist, and a master thief with numerous robberies to his credit. Yet, the Lord Buddha recalls that he had performed a single good deed.”
Goodbye mini bar, hello mini room, new airport hotels to offer a small-scale luxury. Doesn’t look too bad.
It’s been a messenger in times of trouble
In times of hope and fear
When I get drunk and seeing double
It jumps behind the wheel and steers
— Neil Young, This Old Guitar
Anti-Literaturwettbewerb in Pink von Volker König. “Bei “Pussy Prosa” geht es nicht um Geschichten für Katzenfreunde.”
newsRiver – Aggregator für den OPML Editor, Verriss von Georg Bauer. Ich sollte mir nichts mehr von Dave Winer anschauen, die guten Ideen, halbfertig und unbrauchbar verpackt machen nur traurig.
HsNub – update, looks like bytecode is too-lowlevel to make reasonable semantic assumptions.
Haiku for the new year, found by Hanna Wallach.
Difficult v Hard as opposed to Java v C Bill de hÓra picks up Spolsky’s Java School article.
Fortran articles online at the Computer History Museum.
Internet Explorer is ruining my life, Jeremy Jones thinks. I just ignore all kinds of problems related to it.
Dreams where the umbrella is folded
Into the path you are hurled
And the cards are no good that you’re holding
Unless they’re from another world
— Bob Dylan, Series Of Dreams
Manifesto on JAR’s Next Language, if it would exist, I’d love to try it.
Continuations in Smalltalk by Avi Bryant. These are used in Seaside too, I guess.