Anarchaia

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

04nov2005

Matz Just Sent Me a Ruby Script From 2009, lovely. :-P

VX Gas, an introduction. *cough*

Let’s make the Google API an open standard, but, please, don’t let Dave Winer write the spec.

FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE Announcement, it’s BSD release season.

DSC01226 by uLe @ Dortmund

Amazon Mechanical Turk, “Complete simple tasks that people do better than computers. And, get paid for it.”. What a political-correct name.

Mayor: Cut thumbs off graffiti ‘punks’, welcome medieval!

“Welcome to the 21st Century” or “Legal malware wars” by Anton Chuvakin. “Trojan vs Rootkit, Part II”

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair… — Charles Dickens, Tale of Two Cities

Native Queries for Persistent Objects, a concise and type-safe way to express queries directly as Java and C# methods.

Google + CC = Good, by Joi Ito: “Google has just launched a “Usage Rights” category in their advanced search.”

Tutorial on Good Lisp Programming Style, didn’t yet know of that!

I think the birds can see
Everything a little sooner than me
I think the birds can see
Everything a little sooner than me
— Dan Bern, Birds

SICP Lectures on Your iPod, totally cool.

Making Sense of Subroutines by Rob Kinyon. Do we really need a tutorial for that on perl.com?

How else explain fax machines?
How else explain computer enhancement?
How else explain digital remastering?
How else explain Mozart?
— Dan Bern, No Missing Link

PyPy release 0.8.0, “The third PyPy release is out, with an integrated and translatable compiler, speed progress, and now the possibility to translate our experimental “Thunk” object space (supporting lazy computed objects) with its features preserved.”

by plasticrevolver

Symbol#to_proc has been mentioned on the list too. I’d recommend to use __send__.

So You Want To Shoot A Giraffe In The Forehead, by why the lucky stiff.

If an Agile Evangelist falls in the forest and there’s no one to hear him, does he still go on, and on, and on about it? — Elizabeth Keogh (via Jim Weirich)

Cats in Sinks, It’s about cats. And kittens. Who like sinks. And basins. Cute.

CSS Reboot, and I totally forgot about it. :-/

Domain Specific Language with a lifespan of 2 hours or basic data munging by Bob Evans.