Anarchaia

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

06sep2005

Linus trademarks Linux?!!, and Linus replies.

OpenWengo sounds like a reasonable SIP softphone, but they don’t have OS X binaries yet.

Announcing the GPL Version 3 Development and Publicity Project (GPLv3), FSFE press release.

Arabischer Trojaner blockiert erotische Websites, ich mach mir fast in die Hosen. Ja, auch das kann ein Grund sein, Linux zu benützen.

REBOL Essentials is an eBook about learning REBOL.

The Magic of New Orleans by Kendall Clark. He says: “I hope you’ll use the opportunity of Katrina to learn about why it happened, who it’s hurt the most, and what could have been done to prevent much of the devastation.”

Mit einem Stein in der Hand,
als Souvenir vor der Mauer in Berlin
klopfen wir an die Hintertür,
von einem neuen Paradies.
— Die Toten Hosen, Alles Wird Gut

Rake Documentation, “Building the world, One task at a time.” The new documentation site for the just-released Rake 0.6.0.

Interview: Silver Jews at Pitchfork. This is an great interview.

JavaScript Logging by David F. Miller on A List Apart. Must-read for every serious JS developer.

the colour of my soul by saint magenta

Threads Cannot be Implemented as a Library, Hans-J. Boehm says.

Single-page version of the Ruby User’s Guide updated and translated by Mark Slagell. Everything you need on one page.

Village funeral, Joi explains Japanese ceremonies. “It was interesting how many functions of a community that I would take for granted in a good community are so highly formalized in rituals and how it isn’t written or even precisely known by anyone exactly, but it all sort of functions.”

Models Predicted Katrina Devastation, Spencer Critchley says. “Somehow we have to get better at assigning value to information. That’s what markets do. But the policy-making market is broken.”

My first feature by Mail Order Bride

The Code: Graphing O’Reilly Connection by Timothy M. O’Brien. “As promised, the code for drawing graphs from the O’Reilly Connection FOAF documents is available.”

Religious Right Blames Gays, Abortion for Hurricane at morons.org, “I should point out that they also claim the radar image of the hurricane resembles a 6-week-old fetus.” OMFG.

And in the master’s chambers,
They gathered for the feast.
The stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can’t kill the beast.
— Eagles, Hotel California

libssh was designed to be used by programmers needing a working SSH implementation by the mean of a library. Well, I already have Net::SSH in Ruby. :-)

cssQuery() is a powerful cross-browser JavaScript function that enables querying of a DOM document using CSS selectors. All CSS1 and CSS2 selectors are allowed plus quite a few CSS3 selectors. Nifty.