Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
26may2006
Codekunst, Fefe schreibt: “Bei meinen Recherchen zum Literarischen Codequartett kam mir der Gedanke, Stilbezeichnungen aus der Malerei oder der Architektur auf Code anzuwenden.”
America, by Allen Ginsberg. “America why are your libraries full of tears?”
The 3rd European Lisp Workshop will take place on July 3 in Nantes, Frances—co-located with ECOOP 2006.
Well, who’s goin’ to kiss your ruby lips,
And who’s goin’ to hold you to his breast?
And who will talk your future over
While I’m out ramblin’ in the West?
— Woody Guthrie, Hard, Ain’t It Hard
Really Moving Mount Fuji, “It would seem that people are looking for the answer, rather than looking for a review of the book. So I decided to answer the question!”
How To Be Silicon Valley, by Paul Graham. “Could you reproduce Silicon Valley elsewhere, or is there something unique about it?”
Building a Self-Healing Network, by Greg Retkowski. Why not just build one that can’t break? ;-)
The Da Vinci Code, a review by Anthony Lane. Read that, I found it pretty true.
MacBook Pro Disassembly, pictures by James Duncan Davidson.
Unix Magic Poster (JPEG). Nice one.
At midnight in a flaming angry town
I saw my country’s flag lying torn upon the ground.
I ran in and dodged among the crowd,
And scooped it up, and scampered out to safety.
— Pete Seeger, Torn Flag
BOINC is an open-source software platform for volunteer computing. You can participate in several projects, ensuring that your computer will be kept busy even when one project has no work.
First impressions of Open XML, by Rick Jelliffe. “4081 pages of PDF, and very impressive for anyone who has worked on specification and standards.” There is no way to justify 4081 pages, really.
CouchDb wiki at Infogami. Lovely slogan: “CouchDb - Like OuchDb, but with a C.” ;-) Looking forward to see it.
“Camping,” Said the Blogs, I guess I should try it someday too.
Ruby Summer of Code 2006 Projects, as you can see, my name is not there. Ah well. Good luck to all participants.
Summer of Code 2006 Projects accepted by the Perl Foundation. Pretty ambitious stuff.