Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
21jul2007
rFeedParser is a translation of Mark Pilgrim’s Universal Feed Parser from Python into Ruby. It has nearly the exact same behavior. Very useful.
Connector and Slingshot Open-sourced and Free, “Joyent is releasing the source code for our Connector and Slingshot products under the GPL v2.” Nice step.
Tolling for the rebel, tolling for the rake
Tolling for the luckless, the abandoned an’ forsaked
Tolling for the outcast, burnin’ constantly at stake
An’ we gazed upon the chimes of freedom flashing.
— Bob Dylan, Chimes Of Freedom
iPhone Fonts, commentary by John Gruber. It’s a weird selection, yes.
Comprehensive comprehensions: comprehensions with “Order by” and “Group by”, by Phil Wadler and Simon Peyton Jones. Nice stuff.
And the words that are used
For to get the ship confused
Will not be understood as they’re spoken.
For the chains of the sea
Will have busted in the night
And will be buried at the bottom of the ocean.
— Bob Dylan, When the Ship Comes In
Arc Lessons, by Paul Graham.
Homosexuality is not hereditary, Mark Dominus claims the opposite: “Here is one way in which homosexuality could be entirely hereditary and still be favored by natural selection.” Not that it would matter, no?