Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
03mar2006
Seashore is an open source image editor for Cocoa. Based on GIMP.
Women in Science, by Philip Greenspun. “This article explores this fourth possible explanation for the dearth of women in science: They found better jobs.”
Last dives: The Bells/Blue Hole and Abu Helal, wonderful underwater photography by Stephane Bailliez.
nabu: a Publishing System using Text Files, been pondering about this idea for years, I think. (I love when I rediscover my ideas readily implemented on the net.) See the slides, too.
Baby, I can’t stay
You got to roll me
And call me the tumbling dice
— The Rolling Stones, Tumbling Dice
Animaux, funny pictures.
EditorWars on ning.com.
Lernkurven diverser Unix-Editoren, find ich jetzt eher nicht, aber trotzdem lustig.
Telescopes ‘worthless’ by 2050, evil airplanes.
Extend Firefox Contest, we are happy to announce the winners in our Extend Firefox Contest! Reveal is nifty indeed.
Litigation Cosby Threatens Waxy, You See!, I suppose it was inevitable, but I got a cease-and-desist from Bill Cosby’s legal team for hosting the House of Cosbys videos and the out-of-print “Cosby Talks to Kids about Drugs” album. Good luck.
An Actual Application of Fractal Dimension, sounds contrived but possible.
Transformation, Steve Yegge on refactoring Ruby. Sure, some things would be easier with tools, but it isn’t too hard to do manually.
Peter Naur has been awarded this year’s ACM Turing Award. I heart the BNF.
System Administration with ooRexx, by Howard Fosdick. *eech* *runs away*
Reactome, a curated knowledgebase of biological pathways.
Getting Real with Ben Brown, I love it.
How Did The Moon Get Into Orbit?, a useful SVG demo.
I’ll never be your beast of burden.
I’ve walked for miles, my feet are hurtin.
All I want is for you to make love to me.
— The Rolling Stones, Beast Of Burden
Be careful with method_missing, good advice by Phil Tomson.
Bloody MMD…, couldn’t Dan Sugalski just use something like Ruby’s coerce?
nyc.rb turns 14 (in dog years), Gregory Brown says. “The meeting saw the attendance record being beaten at 28 attendees, and hosted three presentations.” Gratulations!
Pyhi: A python interpreter, running YHC bytecode in Haskell is the most stupid idea I ever heard. :P
Programming languages and their relationship styles, pretty mean to Ruby: “Your older sister is the most popular cheerleader in school, but she’s kind of a slut. You think that maybe if you add more features, the boys will like you just as much.”
Changes to Fx2 Chrome, but I do not want per-tab close buttons in Firefox…
Close Encounters of the Steve Kind, I’d never have believed Don Knuth could be that honest and rude at the same time.