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

04apr2007

Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface, by Bret Victor. Must read, it’s fantastic.

Introducing RDFa, Part Two, by Bob DuCharme.

DSC_01180003 by Anne Laure PY

C extension authors: use rb_scan_args(); don’t count argc, good tip by Daniel Berger.

Dyla 2007: 3rd Workshop on Dynamic Languages and Applications, takes place July 31 2007 in Berlin in conjunction with ECOOP 2007.

Internationalization Tag Set (ITS) Version 1.0, now a W3C Recommendation. Nice, but somehow overengineered.

I keep listenin’ for footsteps
But I ain’t hearing any
From the boat I fish for bullheads
I catch a lot, sometimes too many
— Bob Dylan, Floater

The Java Compiler API, a Conversation with Peter von der Ahé by Frank Sommers. One of the nice things of Java.

Lectures on the Curry-Howard Isomorphism (PDF), by Morten Heine and Paweł Urzyczyn.

Monocular Landscapes, Unmanned Drones, and the Orbital Future of Australian Archaeology, on the first issue of Monocle.

Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life, ETech 2007 talk by danah boyd.

Super (Mario) Cake by alt text

The Narrow Road: Zen and the Art of Mathematics, an understandable math blog.

When I hear beautiful music it’s always from another time
Old friends I never visit, I remember what they’re like
Standing on a doorstep full of nervous butterflies
Waiting to be asked to come inside
Just come inside
— Bright Eyes, Lime Tree

Tracking time using shell scripts, couldn’t we also use Twitter for that?

IDEA in 448 bytes of 80x86, by Fauzan Mirza. Shorter than the patent. :-)

If We Taught English the Way We Teach Mathematics…, “You would probably hate the subject.”