Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
05oct2006
Live From JAOO: Future of Programming Panel, by Obie Fernandez, provocating: “Will (the) Ruby (community) in 2016 look and feel like Java in 2006?”
Assembly language for Power Architecture, commenting: “It could just be me, but I think the ASM designers could’ve afforded to make this stuff a bit more human consummable.” Luckily, writing an assembler is easy.
The Physics of Something Awful, an epic. Must-see. (Scroll down.)
Lay down your weary tune, lay down,
Lay down the song you strum,
And rest yourself ‘neath the strength of strings
No voice can hope to hum.
— Bob Dylan, Lay Down Your Weary Tune
Walk on water, even you can in a London church.
Glimpsing the garden over the wall, learning Haskell helps even if you can’t directly use it.
Google Code Search, doesn’t find as much as expected, but nice anyhow.
A Lambda Camcorder, a nifty, but way too magic hack.
6502 compatible compiler and emulator in javascript, yay.
Chaos Computer Club fordert Verbot von Wahlcomputern in Deutschland, gute Idee.
Don’t listen to the words I say, weighing up if I’m enlightened,
Don’t shiver as you pass me by, ‘cause mister I’m the one who’s frightened,
The police just came and left, they wanted me and no one else,
Don’t pretend that you know me ‘cause I don’t even know myself,
I said I don’t know myself.
— The Who, I Don’t Even Know Myself
Digg users are dumber than goldfish, Mark Pilgrim says. I didn’t look at Digg for ages.
Boxes, by Greg Storey. “Our content is all starting to look the same because of the tools used to manage it and web-two-point-dough has homogenized the Internet.”
Make.text is a bookmarklet for turning a web page into Markdown syntax.
Guiness World Record for most T-Shirts worn at one time (YouTube), WJW.