Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
28may2005
I don’t think I ever actually used Copland at all… — Jamis Buck
Lighttpd Rails Script v2 that creates a lighttpd config on the fly. I wanted to do something like that some time ago, but got never around.
Rexx: Power Through Simplicity. Please, let it die! The R-language is Ruby, not Rexx!
BSDCan 2005 Photos, sound and video torrents are available too.
Safari Sucks Memory, Roger Weeks complains and uses FireFox. I do that too, but FireFox still needs more memory here. :-)
The Rails BetaBook is Ready, congratz to the authors. Bill Katz already reviewed it.
A Performance Comparison of Judy to Hash Tables. Interesting.
It’d be silly to use Lisp only for the sake of using Lisp, if it didn’t help him as much as some other technology could. — John Wiseman
Switcher from Lisp to Erlang. I wouldn’t do that in general, but if you need high concurrency, not using Erlang is hard.
Archiving LISP history is a IMO very important task.
PLT Needs You! I hope they can get what they need.
Seth’s Summer Intern Project sounds great.
Well if fame and fortune ain’t the bride
Don’t go along with suicide
If all the tears so quickly dried
When Elliot Smith died
— Dan Bern, Elliot Smith Died
AutoBlogger, integrates seamlessly into your journaling software, allowing a busy writer to do things that other internet nerds only dream about. Go out on dates. Take an extended vacation. Heck if I knew that!
Joi Ito thinks he becomes boring, not true.
Prix Ars Electronica 2005 Awards Announced.
Second draft of Anonymous Blogging Guide. This could get far more important than I’d like.
BitTorrent Search Launched, Joi Ito says.
Lawrence Lessig and John Hardwicke Fight Sexual Abuse and the American Boychoir School. Lawrence Lessig was repeatedly molested by the charismatic choir director, part of a horrific pattern of child abuse there. Now, as one of America’s most famous lawyers, he’s put his own past on trial to make sure such a thing never happens again.
How to Use Design Patterns, A Conversation with Erich Gamma, Part I.
The Sad, But Interesting Truth About Naked Lunch and William S. Burroughs by Egil Skallagrimson.
100,000th file uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. Yay.
No one has the answer
But one thing is true
You’ve gotta turn on evil
When it’s coming after you
You gotta face it down
And when it tries to hide
You gotta go in after it
And never be denied
— Neil Young, Let’s Roll
Friendly fire by ruderod. ” A tale of a modern day soldier, killed in action. A hero to some, a enemy soldier to others, some words about the death of Pat Tillman.”
Jim Weirich goes to OSCON 2005 and will talk about Dependency Injection. Too bad I can’t make it.
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love My Hand by hmm. Hmm…
Acceptance of Gays in Major American Religions by Icestryke on k5.
Camp Discordia der CCC zu Gast auf dem “Berlin 05 Festival”.
Complex Dynamic Lists: Your Order Please by Christian Heilmann on ALA.
Knapp am Darwin-Award vorbei, 40-jähriger Autoraser versteckt sich unter Schnee in eiskaltem Schmelzwasser. D’oh.
Balloon Bazooka, the ultimate water ballon launcher. Get wet!
wiesu erlebt eine 4+. “amerikaner/-innen tanzen sexueller als deutsche.”
Steve Jenson turns his back to MySQL. Good idea.