Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
04oct2005
Google & Sun Office: The World Changes This Week, and I say you, it will flop, flop badly.
Patently Silly, “Necessity is the mother of invention. The father is unknown.”
LispM Links, Bill Clementson has a nice meta-list of interesting sites.
Wikipedia Founder Joins Socialtext Board, “It’s thrilling to see wikis getting the kind of attention in the enterprise that they have gotten in the consumer Internet market,” said Wales. “I look forward to working alongside Socialtext as they continue helping enterprises to work smarter, faster and more efficiently.”
And I guess we shoulda done like James Dean did
‘Stead of putting on weight and sinking down, down, down
Easier to take if we’d have had just skidded straight
To souvenir city and T-shirt town
— Dan Bern, Too Late To Die Young
Blogging vs Journalism, Blogging vs Journalism compares. “You are forced the kind of self-references that most news organizations try to beat out of journalists from birth.”
MouseHolin’ Yer Writeboards, this hack is probably more complex than Writeboard itself. :-P
Pressemitteilung des Chaos Computer Club e.V. zur Einführung biometrischer Reisepässe, “Es ist nicht erkenntlich, welche Vorteile der ePass bringt. Um Ausweisdokumente fälschungssicherer zu machen, ist die Speicherung neuer personenbezogener Daten nicht nötig.”
A Universal Scripting Framework (PDF) or Lambda: the ultimate “little language” Olin Shivers. How to use Scheme instead of AWK.
It really is a nice theory. The only defect I think it has is probably common to all philosophical theories. It’s wrong. — Saul Kripke
Zope 3 is the next major Zope release and has been written from scratch based on the latest software design patterns and the experiences of Zope 2. The Zope 3 development team is proud to announce Zope 3.1.0 final.
1,65 Promille mit 3 Fisherman’s Friend, wenn man jetzt davon noch dicht werden würde, wär’s der Hit.
Darcs-Git is an ongoing effort to make Darcs work with Git repositories, in particular the Linux kernel repository. Crazy idea.
oldversion.com, nomen est omen. Where is that damn Acrobat 5.0 when you need it.
Einstein Spaces, ein Projekt mit neun zeitgenössischen KünstlerInnen an neun Orten, die exemplarisch die lebensgeschichtlichen Stationen Albert Einsteins in Berlin neu markieren.
And Jane came by with a lock of your hair
She said that you gave it to her
That night that you planned to go clear
— Leonard Cohen, Famous Blue Raincoat
muh is a quite versatile irc-bouncer for Unix. An IRC-bouncer is a program that acts as a middleman between your IRC-client and your IRC-server.
Installing Debian, Edd Dumbill explains. Do it!
Measuring the Internet in Dollars, Traffic, Sid Steward says: “I like how the WSJ laces its articles with statistics.”