Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
22feb2006
The Return of Sneakernet, never underestimate the bandwidth of a train full of harddisks…
The Misp Chronicles X: Environmental Functions, William Taysom explains lexical scope in his small Lisp language.
Circlemakers is a site from and for people that make corn circles.
Stateless in Somalia, and Loving It, by Yumi Kim. Exciting story.
The #1 Song on this Date in History…, on my birthday it was “Who’s That Girl” by Madonna. Could have been worse. ;-)
Here’s the ticket, what’s the problem
Too many tickets is the problem, man
Here’s the ticket, what’s the problem
Too many problems is the ticket, man
— The Kills, Ticket Man
Knoppix on the Intel-based Macintosh, yay.
heisetreff, Kontakte, Anzeigen, Events. Erinnert stark an craigslist, könnte aber allein wegen Heise eine solide deutsche Alternative bilden.
Unusual Period Table, featuring wood, marzipan and fools gold, among others.
Influenza-Pandemie-Planungs-Simulator InfluSim, wer’s braucht. *hust*
Cheney Shooting in Google Earth, lovely hack.
Ruby on Rails in a Race, Pat Eyler. Sounds unbeatable compared to Java solutions.
New web app penetration testing tool, Justin Clarke points to Oediupus.
Hear here! Hosted Captcha service now offers audio version, Doug Addison says. I hate them, though.
YARV 0.4.0 (Yet Another Ruby VM) is released, and making great
progress. (ruby --version now says ruby 2.0.0
(Base: Ruby 1.9.0 2006-02-14)!)
More on exotic input methods on “programming musings”, with lots of links.
The crashing waves roll over me
As I stand upon the sand
Wait for you to come
And grab hold of my hand.
— Bob Dylan, Never Say Goodbye
A Unifying Approach to Goal-Directed Evaluation, by Olivier Danvy, Bernd Grobauer, and Morten Rhiger. Very cool.
Introduction to the Java EE 5 Platform, at least they try to make it simpler.
ozimodo 1.0 (rails tumbleloggin’) is out, and “ones zeroes majors and minors” alive again! Great.
Architectural Druidry, tree houses rock. (But you need trees, of course…)
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. — H. G. Wells, via Patrick Logan
Divine Proportions, Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry, by N. J. Wildberger, provides a complete and powerful alternative to classical trigonometry and Euclidean geometry. Sounds very interesting, and lovely it all works without sine, cosine and tangent.
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