Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01dec2007
The Ministry of Type, nice typographic weblog.
19th-century elementary arithmetic, only fun without calculators.
Once in a while, once in a while
You got to burn your lips, keep your feelings alive
Once in a while, once in a while
You got to burn down your house, keep your dreaming alive
— The Kills, The Good Ones
RubyInject is a Mac OS X framework that allows you to inject at runtime the Ruby interpreter into any running application, using the mach_star mechanism. It will spawn a new thread on the remote process, initialize the Ruby interpreter, start a new DRb server that exposes an expression evaluator object, and advertises the DRb server URI on Bonjour. Whoa!
Jimmy Wales Grows Them Good and Organic, yummy “stir-fried wikipedia”.
Perl on Rails, on the sites of the BBC. Most stuff still is just static pages, yay.
Information for distributors, djb’s qmail (and probably all his other stuff) are now officially public domain. And there was much rejoicing.
etracker is a OSC tracker implemented in Emacs. WJW.
Starting FORTH – online edition, an updated version of Leo Brodie’s classic featuring all the lovely and _why-ish drawings.
Predicting the winner of the 2008 US Presidential Elections using a Sony PlayStation 3, conclusion: Don’t use MD5.
All you Catholics wearing condoms, you are going to hell
All us fatties eating bonbons, we are going to hell
Unbaptized babies learn to limbo, purgatory is hell
And your religion is a gamble and you are going to hell
— The Bastard Fairies, We’re All Going To Hell
Exotic Technique for Preparing Lemon Zest Lemonade, by SirPoolie. “If you take the effort to make natural homemade lemonade, it must be made second to none. This process allows you to extract lemon oil from zest shavings of the common citrus lemon, effectively adding quite an appealing kick to the popular pick-me-up. There is no commercial lemonade product that can even begin to compare with this recipe. The flavor is quite distinct, with a bold refreshing lemony accent.”
RogueLulz, Part I: Drawing the Map, Walking Around, Basic Monsters and Attacking, by Joe Sixpack. “The first of a multi-part series on how to write an 80’s style roguelike.”
24ways: Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6, by Drew McLellan. The web development advent calendar starts again.
Air Brain, “These air filters, by Mathieu Lehanneur, seem so hilariously inefficient and bizarre to me, but hey – I love the idea. They turn plants into air filtration machines – miniature ecosystems put to work.”
Legitimate uses of micro-benchmarks: parameter passing and function call costs, comparing C, OCaml and Haskell.
repcached is memcached which implements master/slave asynchronous replication feature.
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