Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

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25dec2005

Practical TeX 2005 booklet, contains transcripts of some nice talks.

Sapphire is a new scripting language reminding me of Smalltalk.

A Field of Candles
A Field of Candles by wwwes

Notable idioms and concepts in Latin.

A face on a lover with a fire in his heart
A man under cover buy you tore him apart
Maybe next year I’ll give it to someone
I’ll give it to someone special.
— Wham!, Last Christmas

The truth about SuprNova.org shutdown, “For a year now, there have been many rumors why SuprNova.org was taken offline.”

DIY - Paper Bookmarks, an awesome idea by Fabio Sirna.

#emacs
15:54 <isomer_> we put up a b-tree instead of a regular tree. there's not much room for presents under the leaves
15:54 <tanuki> we just put up a heap
15:55 <isomer_> how's that work out?
15:56 <isomer_> you have to arrange them by weight

XML Mixed Mode: A New Lexical Syntax for XML Generation in Lisp by Brian Mastenbrook. Nice use of macros.

A Christmas Carol, Rich Bowen made his own audio book.

More about naming conventions, or what Mauricio Fernandez did during christmas. ;-)

How to drink vodka and stay sober, good to know.

Courtney Love Does The Math, Courtney Love’s speech to the Digital Hollywood online entertainment conference. (Which year?)

Dynamics of Digg by Alex Bosworth. IMO it became lame as soon as it was popular.

Yesterday’s just a memory,
Tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be
And I need you, oh, yeah.
— Bob Dylan, Don’t Fall Apart on Me Tonight

Evolution whispers some secrets, Deborah Smith looks back on a momentous year in science.

Context Free is an environment for editing and rendering CFDG design grammars. Hours of fun.

DSC_7938
DSC_7938 by uramsing
Thought Hi, Qerub’s Mom! (The first one is always free.)
#ruby-lang
00:18 <Symmetry> what % of Ruby users are actually Rails users?
00:20 <chris2> Symmetry: you better ask, what number of rails users are ruby users?

Odilon Redon was a French painter and graphic artist, one of the outstanding figures of Symbolism.

NetBSD 3.0 is released, very cool. “Far reaching improvements to the network stack will not only provide better performance but also make NetBSD an excellent choice for a VPN gateway.”