Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
07jan2007
Power Washing 188 Suffolk St., WJW.
M-LAW’s Tenth Annual Wacky Warning Label Contest, “Do not put any person in this washer.”
Momofuku Ando, the founder of Nissin Food Products Co. and inventor of instant ramen, died of heart failure Friday evening at a hospital in Ikeda, Osaka Prefecture, his family said. He was 96.
I got the shotgun blues
Shotgun blues
I can’t wait here forever
I got too much here to lose
— Guns N’ Rosesm The Blues
Simple Smalltalk Testing: With Patterns, by Kent Beck. The first paper on SUnit.
K5 2006: The Year In Review, by Cambria. “An interesting look at the memorable moments of Kuro5hin.org in 2006.”
Meta, shmeta: learning Ruby horizontally, by David A. Black. “Learning Ruby isn’t like scaling a mountain. It’s more like exploring a plain, with interesting features and a distant but very attractive horizon.”
Diagram comparing schema languages for XML, by Rick Jelliffe. An interesting comparison.
Announcing the Dabble DB Plugin API, yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!
Cars are crashin’ every night
I drink n’ drive everything’s in sight
I make the fire
But I miss the firefight
I hit the bull’s eye every night
— Guns N’ Roses, It’s So Easy
Panspermia is the name for the theory that life exists and is distributed throughout the universe in the form of germs or spores. This short computer animation places the viewer in the middle of a virtual world of an aggressively reproducing inter-galactic life form, and depicts a single life cycle of this unusual self propagating system. “This piece was rendered on a Connection Machine CM-2 computer.” Awesome!
Why blurring sensitive information is a bad idea, a dictionary attack on blurred out numbers. Hmm, hmm.
13 Photographs That Changed the World, real classics. I miss the one by Josef Koudelka”, though.