Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17oct2005
Vim 6.4 has been released, Dozens of bugs have been fixed, runtime files were added and updated. Praise the best Vi clone ever.
Free Software Award for Projects of Social Benefit, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) announces the creation of a new annual award, and a call for nominations.
Futuro – Haus vom anderen Stern by Bernd Schröder. “Von der Skihütte zur postmodernen Kunst-Ikone”.
HOWTO Put Porn On Your iPod, a totally great tutorial by Mark Pilgrim.
The finest day that I ever had,
Was when I learned to cry on command.
— Nirvana, On A Plain
EFF entschlüsselt geheime Kennzeichnung von Farbkopien, weiter so, Jungs!
Mechanizing Language Definitions, a very interesting idea.
RubyConf.new(2005) (Friday), Jim Weirich has comments on the talks there.
Japanese are good at making commodities, Toyota, Sony, … and Ruby. — matz
A Few Matz Answers from the Q&A of RubyConf 2005 can be found at RedHanded.
Mmm, apples!, Dan Sugalski has some cooking recipes.
dilemma5000! Wieso selbst entscheiden, wenn es andere für dich tun können?
Referral Rewards Via AdSense, Sid Steward. I wonder if that’s a good idea?
Sex Sells Social Networks, Jennifer Golbeck says. And that’s probably true for every technology.
Defending Freedom of Speech in India by Joi Ito.
JavaScript 2.0 Namespaces, these appear to be rather similar to what Ruby will get.
Higher Order Messaging in Ruby by Nat Pryce, now make that lazy and it will rule.
Büdchen, Dinge, die Lydia ganz nebenbei auffallen.
Cow sounds, collected by Big Dave. “The cow audio spectrum is a narrow one filled mostly with moos.”
Foxtrott, es geht also auch leiser in den Discos.
The Yakuza Diaries: Choose Your Own Adventure by codebunny.
After -Ofun: Thoughts on Code Optimization, Geoff Broadwell maybe be optimizing prematurely.
Lightweight Web Serving with thttpd by Julio M. Merino Vidal. I prefer lighttpd, though.
Planet RubyConf ‘05 aggregates some attendee’s blogs.
Even though my mind is hazy an’ my thoughts they might be narrow,
Where you been don’t bother me nor bring me down in sorrow.
It don’t even matter to me where you’re wakin’ up tomorrow,
But mama, you’re just on my mind.
— Bob Dylan, Mama, You Been On My Mind
Used tape, Joi has a nice story about “using” media.
A Plan for Ruby Conference Japan 2006, it’s great to hear of a Ruby conference specially for Japan.
Demystifying Continuations by Chad Fowler and Jim Weirich.
Speaking the Lingo: Creating Domain Specific Languages in Ruby by Jim Weirich. Even if you’re busy, check this out.
What Is Terrorism? Can it Ever be Ethical? by harrystottle. “Surprisingly the answer to the second question is “Yes” but we need to work up to that more slowly.” Depends on your ethics too, of course.
I’ve been debugged! by Rick Jelliffe. “I feel like I have been given a fresh start, and I want to take it up.”
Outliner, or what is the relation of Lisp and the OPML Editor?
Why do we believe in God? What sparked the Divine Idea? Did our earliest ancestors gain some evolutionary advantage through their shared religious feelings? Robert Winston researched.
http://glu.ttono.us/, Kevin Clark blogs his notes about the RubyConf talks.
RubyConf for Stragglers, this blog is to facilitate posting of multimedia files from RubyConf 2005 for those of us that couldn’t make it. Great!
Blinkenlights ist wieder da, zwar nur bis 23. Oktober, aber trotzdem toll.