Anarchaia

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

23jul2006

compositekeys: ActiveRecord Composite Primary Keys, and there was much rejoicing.

A Dictionary of Useful Research Phrases, very useful.

Engaging Technology, slides by Matt Webb presented at We Love Technology.

P10100061-1 by ny.bulldog

Stiff asks, great programmers answer, “With the help of public accessible e-mail adresses I asked 10 questions to a bunch of programmers that I consider very interesting people and I respect them for variuos things they created.” A very good experiment, and of course very interesting answers.

Yeah, you’ve got that somethin’ I think you’ll understand
When I feel that somethin’ I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
I want to hold your hand
— The Beatles, Want To Hold Your Hand

Anna Konda, the robotic firefighter, a robot snake sounds pretty cool.

ScatterChat is a HACKTIVIST WEAPON designed to allow non-technical human rights activists and political dissidents to communicate securely and anonymously while operating in hostile territory. It is also useful in corporate settings, or in other situations where privacy is desired. IMO, it should be steganographic and fully peer to peer…

Do bubbles in Guinness go down?, WJW.

Printable Airplanes and the Future of Fiction, “[T]he U.S. military has been working toward printable airplanes – unmanned drones made by ‘rapid prototyping.’”

2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict, on Wikipedia.

Manamania, blogging live from Lebanon.

And agression keeps lurking inside
In your everpresent longing
For status through means of money
You war-mongering fool
It aint’t what you have, it’s what you are
Go back to school
— Armand, War Raging Inside

Electric frost.jpg by Kevin Day

XML2RB: Executing XML by transforming it into Ruby. An interesting hack by Erik Veenstra.

Tour de France Update: Floyd Landis Goes Postal on Peloton, by nostalgiphile. “France invented the race 103 years ago, the most difficult and excruciating of its kind (and perhaps of any kind) in the world; but the Americans appeared to have mastered it after Armstrong’s stunning string of 7 consecutive victories which began in 1999.”