Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29jan2006
Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, April 22–23, 2006 somewhere in Silicon Valley.
Splash Screens, Steve Loughran writes: “So Java 1.6 supports splash screens.” Actually, I don’t think I saw a splash-screen for years. (But then, I didn’t seriously use a Java application either…)
The Identity Metasystem by Ben Laurie. At least it sounds very clever.
NASA & RSS, Just great: “I mean, it’s not like this stuff is exactly rocket science, is it?”
Google Removes Its Help Entry on Censorship, ‘nuff said. :-(
GROU.PS, you were communicating, now it’s time to share… This site needs a lot of “import” features from other sites to become successful.
Fugi, do’h, I completely forgot to link it here, too. (also see Announcing Fugi.)
Lunar urbanism 5 on BLDG BLOG. If they got a good connection, why not?
Stars and satellites and clouds
Everything tonight is floating
And I am too so I hold your hand
And up above the moon is rowing
— Josh Ritter, You’ve Got The Moon
The Web 2.0 Jobs Boom, Kurt Cagle claims. By the way, do bubbles pop faster short before the singularity?
Interview with Chad Fowler on Perlcast(!) about his book “My Job Went to India: 52 Ways to Save Your Job”.
Bedtime For Democracy by Scrymarch. About the movie “Good Night And Good Luck”.
The Least Understood Thing in Computing, by Blaine Buxton. Encapsulation is everything.
Haskell’, kicking off the process of defining the next Haskell
standard. Lovely: let haskell' = succ haskell98
, (will
be hard too google for, though.)
Das ist des Deutschen Vaterland,
Wo Eide schwört der Druck der Hand,
Wo Treue hell vom Auge blitzt,
Und Liebe warm im Herzen sitzt—
Das soll es sein!
Das, wackrer Deutscher, nenne dein!
— Ernst Moritz Arndt, Des Deutschen Vaterland
Building the next Haskell, Audrey Tang compares the way new Haskells and new Perls are designed. I, for one, am excited about both. :-)
Efficient and Safe-for-Space Closure Conversion by Zhong Shao and Andrew Appel. Very good.