Anarchaia

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

22feb2007

March 24 is Shutdown Day, “It is obvious that people would find life extremely difficult without computers, maybe even impossible. If they disappeared for just one day, would we be able to cope?”

Vint Cerf: Das Internet ist ein Spiegel der Gesellschaft, da hat der gute Mann recht.

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And to the great roll call before him; Engels, Lenin, Trotsky
Castro, Che Guevara, Emma Goldman, Woody Guthrie
After Breznev and Chernenko, after Mao and Ho Chi Minh
Add the name of the last Communist
Add the name of Tom Bodine
— Dan Bern, The Last Communist On Earth

Black Forest Cherry Pie, by bottlefucker. NSFW.

Europe’s Geological Attics, it looks awesome in the altitude.

OAXAL: Open Architecture for XML Authoring and Localization, by Andrzej Zydron. Uses DITA and xml:tm.

Daniel P. Friedman: A Celebration, slides and video are online. And they played klezmer, yay.

Generalization of Deferred Execution in Python, by Glyph Lefkowitz. “This paper describes the mechanism used by the Twisted framework for waiting for the results of long-running operations. This mechanism, the Deferred, handles the often-neglected problems of error handling, callback juggling, inter-system communication and code readability.”

It s good to have a time clock
Installed on the wall of your house
I punch in whenever I want to
And punch out when it feels right
— Dan Bern, Time Clock

object by laimagendelmundo

A Freelance Programmer’s Manifesto, by Warren Seen.

First woman honored with Turing Award, “Frances E. Allen, 75, was honored for her work at IBM Corp. on techniques for optimizing the performance of compilers.”

New controversial default rails session storage: cookies, I don’t think that’s too bad.