Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
19oct2005
Sociology of Online Shoppers Worldwide by Thomas Crampton. “In South Korea one third of online shoppers purchase nutritional/cosmetic goods, while the global average is just 10 percent.”
United flight map software, Joi Ito complains: “The most distressing thing is that they’ve removed “time at destination” but seem to think “outside temperature” when you’re flying is more important.”
New Source Licenses from Microsoft, who would have thought of that? “The permissive license is most like the BSD license; the community license is most like the Mozilla license; and the reference license is a “look but don’t touch” license.”
Named Parameters? Aren’t They All Named?, Exegesis and discussion on RedHanded.
Wrote for the eclipse, wrote for the virgin
Died for the beauty the one in the garden
Created a kingdom, reached for the wisdom
Failed in becoming a god
— Nightwish, Dead Boy’s Poem
Some software I’d like to see by Giles Turnbull. Some interesting ideas.
Journaling by Steven Douglas Olson. “Do you remember a time when a log book was left by a server and you wrote down everything significant that happened?” Sounds like a good idea.
‘Beyond Java’ by Bruce Tate is introduced at Wadler’s Blog.
Python’s (Weak) Functional Programming Paradigm, Jeremy Jones says: “Python’s focus is not to be a pure anything language.” How consistent.
Security magazines, Anton Chuvakin lists a few he considers readworthy.
Bob Dylan, the Jokerman This page contains small jokes made by Bob Dylan on stage. (for all those who complain I make bad jokes. These are worse, but good.)
The Chronicles of Davidson Creek, Human by transient0.
Schöner Kabelsalat!, super Idee, muss man sagen.
Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee.
Hurrah! Hurrah! The flag that makes you free,
So we sang the chorus from Atlanta to the sea,
While we were marching through Georgia.
— Marching Through Georgia
Civil War Era Lyrics and Tunes collected by Judy Tate.
All-time 100 Novels at Time Magazine. On a first glance, I read 6% of those. Great to see Kerouac there.
Redundant Array of Independent Coffee Machines (RAICM), this is just great. Wow.
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