Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
07feb2007
Useless Account, very Web 2.0.
Delete! — Delettering the Public Space is a huge public installation that takes place on Neubaugasse in Viennas 7th District from June 6 20. During this two-week period, all signage will be covered by yellow foils and plastic. Awesome effect.
Skid Mark Safe: Disgusting, But If It Works…, WJW.
XUL-Enhanced Web Apps, by Cedric Savarese. “This article presents a little-known use of XUL (Mozilla’s user-interface language) and shows how to take advantage of its superior performance and accessibility over HTML while maintaining cross-browser compatibility.” Interesting approach.
Mine brain has meditated on the spinning of The Chao;
It is hovering o’er the table where the Chiefs of Staff are now
Gathered in discussion of the dropping of The Bomb;
Her Apple Corps is strong!
— Lord Omar, The Battle Hymn Of The Eristocracy
What’s new in Ruby 1.9, Feb. 07 update. Excellent work by Mauricio Fernandez.
Programming Shorthands, by Todd Proebsting and Ben Zorn. “We propose programming language mechanisms to reduce redundancy in program source code. These abbreviation mechanisms, shorthands, make programs shorter and easier to write and read.” For Perl people.
Brevé is a Python template engine that is designed to be clean and elegant with minimal syntax. I like that.
The Absolute Need To Understand, “One sign of a good programmer is their absolute need to understand.” Full ACK.
Hiroshima, the pictures they didn’t want us to see, scary.
If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution. — Emma Goldman
Hpricot goodness, Hpricot on JRuby thanks to the Java backend of Ragel and Ola Bini.
Thoughts on Music, by Steve Jobs: Convincing them to license their music to Apple and others DRM-free will create a truly interoperable music marketplace. Apple will embrace this wholeheartedly. Yum!
OO programmers fall into two categories: Smalltalkers and those who don’t get it, pretty true. ;)
Parasite turns Rails into a Camping creator. Use generators, config files, and rake tasks to build Camping apps faster and better.
And sweet, sweet as a mountain stream, we’ll look
Toward a new day breaking in the east
We’ll meet as every future dream unfolds
And surely quality that is the very least
— David Gilmour, Short And Sweet
My save-excursion, by Steve Yegge. A meta-long post…
Manscape, landscape on skin. Crazy.
Lazy Sunday Review: Nintendo Wii, by GhostOfTiber. “What do we do on the weekend with $250 and enough beer to drown a horse? — Buy a Nintendo Wii.” It’s fun, yeah.
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