Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12dec2006
HoHoHo!, 113 10x10 greyscale icons in .gif format to fill up your stocking with. Too bad there is no cake. Why does no-one do a cake?
The Only Flowchart You’ll Ever Need, it’s so easy!
37signals redesigned their front page, but their new typeface looks a bit too Microsoftish for some reason IMHO…
It’s in the water baby, it’s in the pills that bring you down
It’s in the water baby, it’s in your bag of golden brown
It’s in the water baby, it’s in your frequency
It’s in the water baby, it’s between you and me
— Placebo, Post Blue
VLC 0.8.6 has been released and now supports WMV9 out of the box. Whee.
Digital Mozart Edition, the purpose of this web site operated by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute is to make Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s musical compositions widely and conveniently accessible to the public, for personal study and for educational and classroom use. Very nice.
L-99: Ninety-Nine Lisp Problems, useful for learning other languages too, e.g. Haskell.
Mylar is a task-focused UI for Eclipse that reduces information overload and makes multi-tasking easy. It does this by making tasks a first class part of Eclipse, and integrating rich and offline editing for repositories such as Bugzilla, Trac, and JIRA. Looks pretty useful.
Little Premature Xmas Card, “It’s a little premature, but Happy Christmas.” WJW.
CPAN Module Review: XML::Atom, by chromatic. What’s there for Ruby?
Geocaching: Hiking for Geeks, by GhostOfTiber. “From its humble beginings, geocaching has grown into a sport enjoyed internationally and spun off a select few games of its own.”
Haskell in Leipzig, Folien sind online.
Phooey is a functional UI library for Haskell. Phooey (“Phunctional ooser ynterfaces”) retains the functional style, in which outputs are expressed in terms of inputs. In addition, Phooey supports dynamic input bounds, flexible layout, and mutually-referential widgets.
Running your tests automatically with autotest + wmii, emacs and ratpoison, mfp helps you further tuning your environment.
ComicVine is a social encyclopedia for comic book lovers that everyone can edit.
Compose to a Vertical Rhythm, by Richard Rutter. Yay for better web typography.
I wish that I could light the path
That leads to a life of no mistakes
Hold you from the damned be done
That living out of safety seems to take
— Dead Moon, It’s O.K.
Wounded architectures shine, awesome: “[T]he shells of old buildings, damaged by war, become chandeliers”.
Quick list 6 at BLDGBLOG, featuring ambient music and big urbanism.