Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
06dec2006
PostgreSQL 8.2.0 is released.
Wordie, Like Flickr, but without the photos. “Wordie lets you make lists of words – practical lists, words you love, words you hate, whatever.” Sounds fantastic for project names.
DNA Alignment Algorithms in Haskell.
Wii Damage, what a dangerous toy! ;-)
PVS is a verification system: that is, a specification language integrated with support tools and a theorem prover. It is intended to capture the state-of-the-art in mechanized formal methods and to be sufficiently rugged that it can be used for significant applications. Now GPL.
Bang bang, he shot me down
Bang bang, I hit the ground
Bang bang, that awful sound
Bang bang, my baby shot me down…
— Nancy Sinatra, Bang Bang
WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM editor. WYMeditor’s main concept is to leave details of the document’s visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible (at least as WYSIWYG editors).
Cross-referencing facility for SBCL, very useful.
Stain is a set of a teacups designed to improve through use. The interior surface of the cup is treated so as to stain more in predetermined places. The more the cups are used, the more the pattern is revealed. Lovely.
Now he’s hell-bent for destruction, he’s afraid and confused,
And his brain has been mismanaged with great skill.
All he believes are his eyes
And his eyes, they just tell him lies.
— Bob Dylan, License To Kill
The Contest, by Psycho Dave. “Mostly, we were just marking time until this crappy MTV soap opera called Undressed that Jess was obsessed with came on. The whipped cream bikini contest faded to commercial and that’s when Jess suddenly blurted out, “Dammit! I need some pussy!””
Book Review: Ruby Cookbook, reviewed by Cameron Laird. “RC simply gives a lot of value.”
Kill Java, Patrick Logan says: “Some people apparently want to kill Java. Hey, I am not entirely against that idea, but it should be deliberate.”
Rails podcast with Yukihiro Matsumoto, interviewed by Geoffrey Grosenbach.
The Four Webs: Web 2.0, Digital Identity, and the Future of Human Interaction, the most awesome theory about the web I ever read. “Web 3.0 is when the web stops being about sex.”