Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

27feb2007

Another Blow to Emacs, Tim Bray likes the new NetBeans. But does it read my mail?

Powerbooks Are Also Bulletproof, gimme one, or I’ll get shot!

In the most advanced country for mobile phones by ALT123

Life-Long Computer Skills, a time to agree with Jakob Nielsen. “Schools should teach deep, strategic computer insights that can’t be learned from reading a manual.”

Some drink to remember
Some to forget
Some for satisfaction
Some to regret
I hope a brighter
Day to you I’ve shown
— Ben Harper, Bring The Funk

The flipping ship, WJW. Just look at the toilets!

Sleep Labs of the Soviet Empire, nuts: “the building consisted of two large dormitories either side of a central block,” and the dormitories each “had sloping floors.” This would “obviate the need for pillows.”

Boundries by JennyJenna

Community Doesn’t Scale: Why k5 Is Perpetually Dying, by LilDebbie. With lots of links. :-)

“Pure Virtual Function Called”: An Explanation, by Paul S. R. Chisholm. C++ is sooo nice.

Semantic Flash: Slippery When Wet, by Dan Mall. As a supplement, it probably is okay. But pure Flash sites? Ugh.

Krall dich an mich und danke, dass du mir vertraust
Ich will dein fester Boden sein
Obwohl ich selber schwanke
Obwohl ich selber schwanke
— Element Of Crime, Schwere See

Where Our Standards Went Wrong, by Ethan Marcotte at A List Apart. “This is the silent weight of invalid code, a hidden cost we don’t discuss nearly enough.”

Lore is a very new ORM for Ruby.