Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12oct2005
Little 15, Lydia über fünfzehnjährige Bloggerinnen, bzw. Tagebuchschreiberinen.
Tilda is a Linux terminal taking after the likeness of many classic terminals from first person shooter games, Quake, Doom and Half-Life to name a few, where the terminal has no border and is hidden from the desktop till a key or keys is hit.
Xara is pleased to announce that it intends to make its flagship graphics product, Xara X (in its latest and greatest incarnation, Xara Xtreme), Open Source. Xara is also working to bring it to the Linux and Mac platforms. Yay!
What Is Quartz (or Why Can’t Windows Do That) by Matthew Russell. I should learn more about Display PostScript and PDF.
Now you say it’s easy
That you been falling for all of my charm
And getting lost in my smile
Never ceases to amaze me
— KT Tunstall, Stoppin’ the Love
The Church-Turing Thesis: Breaking the Myth, paper and discussion on LtU.
Reducible Complexity, Irresistable Fun by chromatic. “I could argue contrarily that HL 2 is foremost an engine demo, secondarily the test of a new distribution system, and finally a game, but that’s a different discussion altogether.” Made my day.
Social Networks, Privacy, and the Semantic Web by Jennifer Golbeck. Including an excourse to FOAF.
Influence of Blogs on the Marketplace of Ideas by Thomas Crampton. “It formerly took powerful ideas (Marxism, Buddhism, Democracy) or those backed by capital (ie: printed in publications) to galvanize large audiences.”
RDF Schema for musical family trees?, Dan Zambonini has a nice idea.
Students study Japanese because they like anime, and Joi says: “That’s good since most people aren’t studying Japanese for business reasons anymore.”
Grand Challenge 2005 Route in Google Earth, track the bots.
Google 2084 by Randy Siegel. This is just great.
Plugging into Rails by Jamis Buck on how to write plugins for Rails.
Sybase or Biological Weapons? You Stand at a Crossroad, _why invents a software license.
I wish I was a neutron bomb, for once I could go off
I wish I was a sacrifice but somehow still lived on
I wish I was a sentimental ornament you hung on
The christmas tree, I wish I was the star that went on top
I wish I was the evidence, I wish I was the grounds
For 50 million hands upraised and open toward the sky
— Pearl Jam, Wishlist
What Should I Tell CS Job Seekers?, Ming Chow asks. Among them, “You need to learn how to communicate to users effectively.”
What I Did This Summer, Paul Graham summarizes the Summer Founders Program.
R.I.P. WYSIWYG, Jakob Nielsen says. For me, I still prefer WYSIWYM.