Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
08apr2008
Stefanie Posavec “On the Map”, simply fantastic infographics. “The pieces featured in On the Map focused on Kerouac’s On the Road. The maps visually represent the rhythm and structure of Kerouac’s literary space, creating works that are not only gorgeous from the point of view of graphic design, but also exhibit scientific rigor and precision in their formulation: meticulous scouring the surface of the text, highlighting and noting sentence length, prosody and themes, Posavec’s approach to the text is not unlike that of a surveyor.”
The Monad.Reader Issue 10 is now available, featuring “Step inside the GHCi debugger” by Bernie Pope and “Evaluating Haskell in Haskell” by Matthew Naylor.
The Thing About Git, by Ryan Tomayko, “… is that it’s oddly liberal with how and when you use it.” True. Also provides really good tricks you may have missed so far.
Now, you take your file and you bend my head
I never can remember anything that you said
You promised to love me, but what do I know
You’re always spillin’ juice on me like you got someplace to go
Odds and ends, odds and ends
Lost time is not found again
— Bob Dylan, Odds And Ends
Compaction, Damien Katz says: “File compaction is now checked into the Apache CouchDB SVN repos.”
Steak tartare, yum!
Roasting and eating a goose alive, WJW how evil.
Fun with Ruby 1.9 File Encodings, this ought to work in 1.8 as well.
Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications. Shared hosting 2.0. Python only for now. (And I wonder how long it takes the first serious password fishing begins.)
Ain’t no reason to go in a wagon to town,
Ain’t no reason to go to the fair.
Ain’t no reason to go up, ain’t no reason to go down,
Ain’t no reason to go anywhere.
— Bob Dylan, Time Passes Slowly
Git for Rubyforge accounts, yay!
Take Control of Your Maps, by Paul Smith at A List Apart. “It is now possible to replicate Google Maps’ functionality with open source software and produce high-quality mapping applications tailored to our design goals. The question becomes, then, how?”
Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards, by Wilson Miner at A List Apart. “Here are three techniques for incorporating data visualization into standards-based navigation patterns.”
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