Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
16mar2006
StroQ is a clone of the Gameboy game Polarium. Highly addicting.
XP on an imac, up and booting, gratulations.
Celebrating the release of GNOME 2.14!, the new Deskbar looks cool.
On Messages and Files, and the Rest of the Future of Data, by Patrick Logan. “I have come to the conclusion there are three simple patterns we should lean on for making documents and messages persistent.”
R-Rails Gets R-Recognized, Rails and the Rails book receive Jolt awards.
Shell Corner: Safely Sharing Screen Sessions with sudo, by Rod Knowlton. “How can users share screens without learning commands and without screen being setuid root?” Ahh, Unix…
From the Carbon Dioxide Riding Academy
to the children’s crusade marching through the downtown.
Well I think I’d die see, if you just said hi to me.
When something breaks it makes a beautiful sound.
— Silver Jews, Blue Arrangements
IronSudoku has free Sudoku puzzles and a friendly community.
The Next Web?, by Simon St. Laurent. “Since the Web first appeared, developers have talked about what’s wrong with it.”
OOP Concept explained: Polymorphism, by balsamic vinigga. Using a very, umm, depicting example: “Let’s say for example you want to fuck a hole. You fuck all holes the same. You don’t care if that hole happens to be a mouth, an ass, or a pussy, you’re gonna fuck it the same way regardless. However, the mouth, pussy, or ass may respond differently to the fucking.”
Universal Algebra and Diagrammatic Reasoning, by John Baez. Lectures at Geometry of Computation 2006. (Don’t be scared, have a look at the diagrams…)
Priest’s Grotto, amazing story: “In the spring of 1944, a group of 38 Ukrainian Jews emerged weak and jaundiced from a cave they’d used for nearly a year to escape the horrors of the Holocaust.”
SWIM-ing with Google, by Greg McCarroll. Search what I mean!
A sysadmin tip that could save you hours…, by 0_o. It sounds obvious, except it isn’t.
Sara, Sara,
Whatever made you want to change your mind?
Sara, Sara,
So easy to look at, so hard to define.
— Bob Dylan, Sara
Typesafe =! Correct, chromatic says: “It just means that not all errors in a program are type errors.” Duh.
A slow-paced introduction to the Io language, “But the damages are extensive, particularly for Algol-derivative programmers: you will end up messed up!”
Two formative experiences, by Brian Marick. “GNU Emacs was something I did on my own time, not as part of my Professional Responsibilities, so no one really noticed that Stallman pushed harder for good code than those people who were paid to push hard for good code.”
A Turing Machine In Conway’s Game Life (PDF) by Paul Rendell. Very cool.
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