Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12oct2006
Homosexual animals exhibit opens, by Alister Doyle. “‘We may have opinions on a lot of things, but one thing is clear— homosexuality is found throughout the animal kingdom, it is not against nature,’ an exhibit statement said.”
Ruby on Rails Camp, sounds like a neat unconference.
Welcome to Google for Educators, oh no! Now they will know about Google! Let’s hope Wikipedia doesn’t do similar things…
GHC 6.6 is released. SMP, impredicative polymorphism, and a lot more.
First Steps with Haskell for Web Applications, what a waste.
Menschenfressermenschen
sind normal und meist sehr fleißig
Menschenfressermenschen
gibt’s nicht erst seit Dreiunddreißig
— Rio Reiser, Menschenfresser
America’s Most Fonted: The 7 Worst Fonts, Comic Sans rightly is number one.
Eudora Joins Mozilla and Goes Open Source, “The reason, of course, is that there’s hardly a solitary cent to be made in this market anymore.” So true.
Airports, Tracks, and Factories, about the photography of Thomas Weinberger.
Introducing OpenLaszlo, by Sreekumar Parameswaran Pillai. “This tutorial helps you get started on OpenLaszlo, which is an open source platform for creating zero-install web applications with the user-interface capabilities of desktop client software.”
Chapter 6: Perl as a (better) Find Command, excerpted from the book Minimal Perl: For UNIX/Linux People by Tim Maher. An excellent book, by the way.
How Christians React to Death and Murder, by A Bore. Another post on the reaction of the Amish after the massacre. “Out of a horrific incident, the Amish showed what faith in God really was, turning even that horror into a demonstration of the highest principles of their faith. I must confess, I find their actions deeply moving.”
Using Google Code Search to Find Security Bugs, by Nitesh Dhanjani. Neat.
Self awareness, well, a link remembering Self can’t hurt.
Ruby HEAD’s been evolving in the last 4 months, Mauricio Fernandez made a list of changes.
Armies of zombies
And the generals fishing
And baby Jesus
On a suicide mission
And little Mohammed
Lifeless and brown
And drowning faceless scarecrows
Wearing the crown
— Dan Bern, Past Belief
FreeForth is an interactive development environment for programmers fed up with fat/slow/proprietary/blackbox development environments. Has some unique features.
The Weekly Squeak, what’s new in the world of Squeak.
Digital Typography and @font-face, yes, why can’t we just embed TrueType?
FTS1 is the first step of making SQLite do full-text search. Cool!
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