Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
05sep2005
Hawking talking with his blinks, BBC reports that his hand was getting weaker. I wonder how long it takes to get used to that.
Science (and evolution) is not a matter of faith… and Tom Coates is right about that, of course.
Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists at hackdiary. Nifty application of the unsemantic web.
ECOOP 2004 Workshop papers, I remember seeing that list some time ago, every paper is readworthy.
The real pitfall of LISP systems was that they actually displayed something on the screen when they were garbage collecting. — Chris Welty, Still Garbage Collecting
Naked Bike Ride, a photoset on Flickr (PNSFW).
People Finder Interchange Format by Kieran Lal, Jonathan Plax, and Ka-Ping Yee. A data model and an XML-based exchange format for sharing data about people who are missing or displaced by natural or human-made disasters.
Oil paintings of x-rated picnics.
Behind the walls of medication I’m free.
Every falling leaf in a compact mirror
hits a target that we can’t see.
— Silver Jews, The Wild Kindness
The news on Katrina from outside the USA by blackpaw. It really sucks to be a tourist there right now.
CGI:IRC for freenode.net, this is essential. :-)
APPLE: Advanced Procedural Programming Language Elements, all in all, he reinvents multi-method dispatch. CLOS has been there, done that.
An Interview with XML by Dan Zambonini. Clever conclusion: “I’m not sure that the hierarchical organisation of information […] is the best solution.”
No time like the present to get ripped apart
Got this burnin’ desire coming straight from my heart
Suck you dry…suck…suck you dry…suck you dry…
Suck me dry…suck this dry…
— Rolling Stones, Beast Of Burden
lighttpd Documentation, very useful to me as chneukirchen.org is going to move to lighttpd real soon now.
A Complete History of Tux (So Far) by Steve Baker.