Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29may2007
Ten Theses on Non-Democratic Electronics, by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter.
“Beten verboten!”, “Ein Drittel der Deutschen sind konfessionslos – ein Zentralrat soll ihnen jetzt gleichviel Einfluss wie den Kirchen verschaffen.” Nett.
What Would Happen if You Bought 25 Bottles of Nyquil?, must-read. I love it.
All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.
Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.
— Bob Dylan, All Along The Watchtower
Evangelizing Outside the Box: Web Standards and Big Companies, by Peter-Paul Koch at A List Apart. “The strategy of the standards movement needs an additional component aimed at convincing large web companies to become more open in their standards support.”
Who Needs Headlines?, by Shaun Crowley at A List Apart. “A lot of web copy is written by copywriters who aren’t trained in writing for the web—and much of the rest is written by people who aren’t trained writers at all.”
Distel’s core extends Emacs Lisp with the Erlang programming model and an interoperable implementation of the Erlang distributed message-passing protocol. The package includes Emacs-based development tools written on top of this core.
Saltwater into fire (YouTube), WJW.
Web Application Description Language (WADL) is designed to provide a machine process-able description of HTTP-based Web applications. Feels too XMLy to me…
My dreams are made of iron and steel
With a big bouquet
Of roses hanging down
From the heavens to the ground.
— Bob Dylan, Never Say Goodbye
Does REST need a service description language?, Aristotle Pagaltzis wonders.
Manhattan Landfill, “Much of the landfill on which it is constructed consists of the rubble of buildings destroyed during the Second World War by the Luftwaffe’s blitz on London and Bristol.”
DIY Drones, Amateur UAVs, contests, resources and more.