Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
21oct2005
Collaborative Newspaper Column — Wiki-style? by Thomas Crampton.
flickr Sudoku, for the totally crazy ones.
Gender in the World of Warcraft, Joi makes me curl: “On the other hand, there is a very cute Gnome Warlock that I often quest with. I flirt with her too, but the guy who plays that character seems to enjoy the role playing.”
OpenBSD 3.8: Hackers of the Lost RAID, an interview by Federico Biancuzzi.
The Parrot post-mortem, Or: Where things went wrong, and where things went right. By Dan Sugalski. Read this, and know.
Far away in the stormy night,
Far away and over the wall,
You are there in the flickering light
Where teardrops fall.
— Bob Dylan, Where Teardrops Fall
Demand OpenDocument: Tell Microsoft You Want It, Jean Hollis Weber says. “Microsoft has stated that the company will support the OpenDocument format in MS Office if there is customer demand.” As if.
Seven Deadly Sins of Introductory Programming Language Design by Linda McIver and Damian Conway.
Damn cool illusion, this one is really good.
Success is the ability to go from onefailure to another with no loss ofenthusiasm. — Sir Winston Churchill
U.S. soldiers videotaped desecrating Taliban corpses, Joi Ito links. Pretty tough: “Wow, look at the blood coming out of the mouth on that one, fucking straight death metal.”
trendalicious is a near real-time view of website popularity trends as reflected by the del.icio.us social bookmarking service. All URLs that have been posted by a minimum of two people in the past sixty minutes are displayed, ranked by the total number of recent posts. Yay, Lisp ware.
Data Munging for Non-Programming Biologists by Amir Karger. Today is “let non-programmers script-too” day.
You’re gonna walk that endless highway,
Walk that high-way till you die.
All you children goin’ my way,
Better tell your home-life sweet goodbye.
— J. R. Robertson, Endless Highway
A Guided Tour of Forms/3, a spreadsheet-like Visual Programming Language (VPL). Its goal is to provide computational and expressive power in a language featuring a simple, concrete programming style with immediate feedback.
The Whyline, The central idea of the Whyline is that it allows programmers to ask questions about their program’s failures in terms of their program’s output. Sounds a bit like Clippy? }:-) It isn’t.
Homesteaders of the 21st Century by Sam Ruby. “As computers, like electric motors before them, fade into the woodwork we need to enable a future where everybody can be a switchboard operator.”
OOPSLA — The End of Users at Mundane Essays. “Notes from Mary Beth Rosson’s keynote.” I’m waiting for this every day.
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