Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

19aug2006

Autoantonyms are words that are the opposite of themselves!

An Island No More, “pump out the water from the area of the Hudson which has been dammed off… fill in that space… ultimately connecting the Island of Manhattan with the mainland of New Jersey… and you have the world’s eighth wonder – the reconstruction of Manhattan!”

DSCF6287 by Oye-sensei

Comparing XML office document formats: using XML Metrics, by Rick Jelliffe. Interesting comparision.

Functions accepting blocks in Ruby’s C API make for tricky bugs, Mauricio Fernandez warns.

Great Software, why do they all forget TeX?

Seven days, seven more days she’ll be comin’
I’ll be waiting at the station for her to arrive
Seven more days, all I gotta do is survive.
— Bob Dylan, Seven Days

Closures for Java, better late than never, but why did this take 10 years?

The Zoidcom network library is a high-level, UDP based networking library providing features for automatic replication of gameobjects and synchronization of their states over a network connection in a highly bandwidth efficient manner.

Camping Gets J’d, Placing It at the Very Epicenter of Hate!, yeech. ;-)

Ruby 1.8.5 is Real Close, Here’s Preview 4, a bit late, but still.

1337, eine Web-Saga…

Posing Titmouse by Justin_K

Mail-in Authentication: Password-less Authentication, Kinda, A time-limited security token issued through weekly or monthly email containing a URL with one-time password effectively removes the need for passwords. Worth thinking about…

Ich seh die Wälder meiner Sehnsucht,
den weiten sonnengelben Strand.
Der Himmel leuchtet wie Unendlichkeit,
die bösen Träume sind verbannt.
— Ton Steine Scherben, Land in Sicht

ExtemporarySpeaking, Martin Fowler says: “In this style I begin with little more than a rough outline of my talk, and compose everything else as I go.” I wonder if that would work in school.

DateBocks is a pure JavaScript library using DHTML and advanced date parsing to generate the date based on the grammar passed. The purpose of DateBocks is to simplify the date entering process using common terms we are all familiar with. Very useful.

Anophthalmus hitleri (Hitler’s Blind Cave Beetle) is a species of blind cave beetle found so far in only five humid caves, all located in Slovenia. Blind, brown and strong claws.