Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
27dec2006
Strong earthquake strikes off the coast of Taiwan, “The Internet Storm Center is reporting a 100% packet loss on certain routers. A sample ping test from Singapore to Wikinews came up with a 380 millisecond average round trip at 50% packet loss.”
SCCS is an implementation of the POSIX standard Source Code Control System. Gaaanz toll, Jörg!
Edo-period illustrations by Kurimoto Tanshuu, squids and other watery wildlife.
Set honor in one eye and death i’ the other
And I will look on both indifferently;
For let the gods so speed me as I love
The name of honor more than I fear death
— William Shakespeare, The Tragedie of Julius Caesar
How To: Disable Your Passport’s RFID Chip, very useful to know.
Google Maps adds India, wow.
Blending an iPod, WJW.
When the doors of the earth slam shut, “Imagine if plate tectonics stopped tomorrow.”
Statistical Data Mining Tutorials, lots of interesting stuff.
Love American Style: Web 2.0 And Narcissism, “What he’s getting at is that this whole Web 2.0, social networking, virtual community business is essentially a pornography of the self—a projected, fictionalized self that is then worshipped by the slightly less-perfect self.”
But then we’d have to rush back
To the town’s best baker
To get the first bread of the morning
There’s more to life than this
— Björk, There’s More To Life Than This
The best Christmas present, Edd Dumbill got twins!
Holy Bible 14, _why is back, he even has The Best Things!
Fortran 2007 Anyone?, Patrick Logan ponders. “I think the 2007 language breakthroughs are still clouded. On the other hand its very post-modern. They won’t be neat breakthroughs.”