Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
04may2006
Anarchaia will resume publishing on Monday, May 8.
LinuxTag Live Videostream, irgendwie ist der LinuxTag dieses Jahr wenig medienpräsent…
How to make programming hard for yourself, by Reg Braithwaite.
ECLM2006 Wrap-up, by Michael Weber. Many other reports are online.
Quake 3 Virtual Machine (Q3VM) Specifications, the Q3VM is a virtual machine used by Quake III to run the game module.
Oh when I look back now
That was seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya – I’d always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
— Bryan Adams, Summer Of ‘69
Digital Politics: An Interview With CivicSpace Founder Zack Rosen , by Spencer Critchley. Definitely a kind of software which time yet has to come.
A note on distributed computing, by Samuel C. Kendall, Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath and Geoff Wyant. As Luke Gorrie calls it, “a classic”.
Park Place Does Torrents, It’s Called 0.7, very cool, _why.
Using ERB with Camping, Christopher Cyll makes a very good point: “Objectively, Rails is a very slim web framework. However the initial code generation phase dramatically increases the perceived complexity.”
Git Wiki, nice to see Git now has one too.
Erlang in Real Time was written by Maurice Castro to support the course `CS584 Real Time and Concurrent Systems’ at RMIT University in 1998. Online edition available.
The Library of Imaginary Machines, by Bill de hÓra. “In software there’s always some machine you’re dealing with that is made from another machine.” Or why languages don’t matter as much as machines. (Funnily, I realized this not too long ago…)
Third DARPA Grand Challenge Announced, John Wiseman says. “After the success of this event, we believe the robotics community is ready to tackle vehicle operation inside city limits.”
Refactoring Everything, Day 14, by chromatic. “Finally Porting without Debugging”.
Greenwich Emotion Map, a hand-held, GPS-based cartographic project centered around the soggy parks and traffic crossings of London’s meridian peninsula.
And I give to you now, sacred sigh, come get in
And then I pray that you are, stay the night, you get it
— Red Hot Chili, Peppers Wet Sand
Dolby Earth / Tectonic Surround-Sound, now visitors to a California museum exhibit can hear virtually every big and small earthquake simultaneously in just a few seconds off real time.
Everything You Wanted to Know about Gnomedex (But Were Afraid to Ask), I really wonder how that turns out. An unconference with 300 people.
p7zip is a port of 7-Zip for POSIX systems.
halostatue, Austin Ziegler blogs again.
Is God a Taoist?, a dialogue from The Tao is Silent, by Raymond M. Smullyan. Highly insightful, recommended reading.