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Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

18oct2005

Modular Checking for Buffer Overflows in the Large, how about simply going with a programming language that can’t possibly buffer overflow??

Q is a functional programming language based on term rewriting.

The Melloman, a Mellotron. “My version […] uses Walkmans and cassette tapes to play original Mellotron samples, or whatever cassette tapes you want to put in. Inside the box, there are 14 continuously running Walkmans mounted side by side.” WJW.

Wow, imagine that?
They won’t fight back.
I got a theory on that.
A whale’s heart is as big as a car.
A whaler’s thought must be smudged by the dark.
— Pearl Jam, Whale Song

RubyConf 2005 Presentations can be found at ZenSpider’s Ruby sites. Thanks for putting them online!

<N><E><W><S> by kunalchokshi

Father of Wiki Quits Microsoft, Ward Cunningham, one of Microsoft’s high-profile hires, is leaving the Redmond software company to join the open-source tool group, The Eclipse Foundation. Great news.

IMDb got fifteen years old today! A great resource.

Aldi und Co. drängen in den Mobilfunkmarkt, wie schön dass ich nicht in der Mobilfunkbranche tätig bin. :-P

The NetBSD Foundation Press Release: NetBSD and the Google “Summer of Code” Summary, see what has been hacked on.

Practical Scheme, this page is a collection of libraries and extensions to use Scheme as a production tool. Great idea.

Google uses Bayesian filtering the way Microsoft uses the if statement. — A very senior Microsoft developer [via Joel Spolsky]

That’s What I Call Getting Some Pi, Lemonodor enjoys the tune of Pi too.

Security awareness failures, Anton Chuvakin cites: “Education is not key to security. Good security technology is key to security.”

Dave Sifry’s updated blog stats at Joi Ito’s. Now you can define something like Moore’s Law for the blogosphere.

Mainstream Media Journos Tackle Blogging, Thomas Crampton says. “Journo” has a nice ring, I admit. :-)

Yahoo’s Political Prisoner?, Thomas Crampton has three questions regarding the Committee to Protect Journalists today naming online journalist Shi Tao as a winner of the International Press Freedom Award. Luckily, I’m not in China.

DSCN1362 by shivku

Splogs: Is Our Developers Learning?, John E. Simpson is talking about spam blogs, which seem to get a bigger and bigger problem. “But for God’s sake, do something to stem the tide.”