Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
31jul2007
Better Writing Through Design, by Bronwyn Jones at A List Apart. “It’s one thing to write copy that fits on a website. It’s quite another to write copy that fits in with a website.”
Reviving Anorexic Web Writing, by Amber Simmons at A List Apart. “We’ve starved all the life out of web writing. The kind of writing we encourage is lifeless, insipid, and calorie-free. If we want to get back on track—to allow writers to write wonderful user experiences—we have to change our expectations and our rules.”
Now it can be told, now it can be spoken
Buildings will fall, records will be broken
You can’t hide the alien sitting in your head
No more secrets, it s all bein’ said
— Dan Bern, Now It Can Be Told
The Karmasphere DP language is a high-performance non-blocking parallel language for performing data processing. It is designed to give the user a high degree of control over the usage of system resources, for example, how many CPU cores or how much disk I/O time to use, without requiring the software developer to explicitly consider these issues in code.
fluxus is a graphical livecoding environment for Scheme. Builds for Linux (and sometimes OSX), and released under the GPL licence.
Carnivore sex off the menu, “Vegansexuals are people who do not eat any meat or animal products, and who choose not to be sexually intimate with non-vegan partners whose bodies, they say, are made up of dead animals.” Well, they can use a cucumber instead.
Fire escapes on the sides of buildings
If everything suddenly went up in flames
We’d be all right darling.
— Dan Bern, Fire Escape
Expand then contract, Aristotle Pagaltzis on the usefullness of having intermediate formats.
Dependency Injection in One Sentence, Jim Weirich reminds me of the saying: “Needle is a library that makes things complicated.”
Okay, Well… Shoes, _why has some screenshots of his small toolkit.
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