Anarchaia

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

30jul2007

Type the sky, Semesterarbeit von Lisa Rienermann. Very neat.

Shoes is a very informal GUI toolkit. It’s for making regular old windowing apps. It’s a blend of my favorite things from the Web, some Ruby style, and a sprinkling of cross-platform widgets. By Why The Lucky Stiff.

2006-12-07: Scrappy. by sjl7678

Do you want your possessions identified? [ynq], von Thomas Mayer. “20 Jahre NetHack, 20 Jahre Spaß mit Buchstabensalat – die Geschichte des Spiels, aufgezeichnet von einem Süchtigen.”

I see a lot of people as I make the rounds
And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town
And I’ve never gotten used to it, I’ve just learned to turn it off
Either I’m too sensitive or else I’m gettin’ soft.
— Bob Dylan, If You See Her, Say Hello

Intel, Racism Inside, heh.

More, Bigger, Faster, Shinier, by brain in a jar. “There are however a few reasons why consumerism in its current form isn’t a particularly good way to go about the pursuit of happiness, either at the level of individuals or societies.”

Biologists Helping Bookstores, “Reshelving pseudo-scientific nonsense since 2007.” Awesome!

Finally Working On Django-AtomPub, when will Rails support APP?

37 Reasons to Love Haskell (playing off the Ruby article), nice one.

Nethack reference by nascent

Can a file be ODF and Open XML at the same time? (and HTML? and a Java servlet? and a PDF archive?), Rick Jelliffe wonders. Better ask how to keep them in sync.

The possibility of secret passageways: An Interview with Patrick McGrath, “McGrath’s characters are frequently deformed, crippled, insane, or somehow undefined, both psychologically and sexually; they are sinister, if naive, and quietly aggressive, weaving conspiratorial plots around one another with a tightness and an intricacy, and a psychological intensity, till something dreadful occurs – and the book then lurches on to its brutal and unhappy ending.”

And then I turn my head, for you’re approachin’ me.
Moonlight on the water, fisherman’s daughter, floatin’ in to my room
With a golden loom.
— Bob Dylan, Golden Loom

RubyConf 2007, call for proposals until August 20.