Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
11jul2006
Elisa is a project to create an open source cross platform media center solution. Wants to target OS X too.
PyPy video documentation, lots of talks available as torrents.
Rudi Carrell ist tot. Schade. Aber er sagte ja selbst: “Ich werde noch lange als Wiederholung weiterleben.”
Industry demands Python, not Ruby or Rails, hey, Industry, go fuck yourself! *scnr*
Research on the Bongard Problems, stuff I love.
Screaming through the starlit sky
Travelling by telephone.
Hey ho, here we go
Ever so high.
— Pink Floyd, Flaming
Syd Barrett, Founder of Pink Floyd, Dies, sad.
Job? Fuck It!, graphics by Packard Jennings. Very good.
A Released Perl With Trie-based Regexps!, a neat optimization.
Anarchy, defined by Russ Nelson.
Introducing the Dapper-Commercial Repository, great, so I’m back at recommending Debian to people. (And no, it’s not about choice, but about actively providing something that hurts free software.)
The HACTRN, by Guy L. Steele Jr. “Once before a console dreary, while I programmed, weak and weary, / Over many a curious program which did TECO’s buffer fill, …”
Socially Responsive, Environmentally Friendly Logic, by Samson Abramsky. “What kind of logic has a natural semantics in multi-player (rather than 2-player) games?”
Deploying Rails with Pound in Front of Mongrel, Lighttpd, and Apache, by Rob Orsini. Who can use more HTTP servers at once?
Bye, Bye <embed>, by Elizabeth Castro on A List Apart. “The use of embed has gone on too long.”
I stepped on board of a railroad car beneath the morning sun
I rode the road ‘til evening and I laid me down again
All strangers there, no friends to me, ‘til a dark girl towards me came
And I fell in love with a Creole girl by the lakes of Pontchartrain
— Déanta, The Lakes Of Pontchartrain
The lakes of Pontchartrain, beautiful.
Automatic Magazine Layout, by Harvey Kane on A List Apart. “This article covers a PHP-based technique for automatically resizing—and more importantly, positioning—between two and eight images in what I call a magazine-style layout.”
ich rauche, also spinn’ ich, ein Nikotinpflaster für Lydia.
Take 42.5, further improvements to Vlerq.
FUnit, a Fortran Unit Testing Framework that uses Ruby for code generation. Used at NASA.
GnuCash 2.0.0 milestone released to public, for the people that have money.
Archigram: The Restaurant, who wouldn’t want to dinner in the sky?