Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12nov2005
_why again on Noboto, they seem to like him.
Aeronautics, Danny Ayers tries “The best paper airplane in the world!”.
DITA for DocBook, Implementing the Darwin Information Typing Architecture for DocBook. By Norman Walsh.
Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture, toward portable technical information. “The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information.”
A dreamer of pictures
I run in the night
You see us together,
chasing the moonlight,
My cinnamon girl.
— Neil Young, Cinnamon Girl (Happy Birthday, Neil!)
Why Is France Burning? The rebellion of a lost generation, by Doug Ireland.
Mobile phone repair at Karol Bagh Market, awesome. “It’s amazing to think of that level of hardware hacking taking place every day at a back-street market stall.”
LIFT06, “Life, Ideas, Futures. Together.”. A conference about new technologies and people, happening in Geneva Switzerland on February 2-3, 2006.
Forty Faces, who just blogged? Does not scale.
On speaking English by Joi Itoi. But surely it’s better to get a different Foreign Minister that speaks English than to leave G8??
Candy Crisis is an exciting combination of pure action and puzzle gaming! And now open-source.
When writing for the web, there’s nothing but disappointment. I almost wish I didn’t understand HTML—then I could use high-level word processors, export to HTML and turn a blind eye to the atrocious markup. — Jonathan Rentzsch, Contemporary Quill
Full Metal Jacket, John Gruber says: “New theory: get the best PowerBook you can and live off it.” In-depth analysis.
O’Reilly Podcasts, a new portal.
“The Nature of Order” is the latest book from author Christopher Alexander. On The Wiki, see also NooHasNothingToDoWithSoftware.
Die “Inititiative Koolwatch”, Protokoll einer stürmischen Zeit. Einfach nur genial.
Marketing Books Online by Christopher Diggins. Why are metabooks different to books?
Emacs Keybindings in Eclipse, by Timothy M. O’Brien. Good to know that exists. “I do find myself programming Ruby in Emacs, maybe that say more about efficient language design than anything else.”
A little misbehaving, Andrea Harner: “One morning I thought I was clever and funny by arranging our innocuous little figures into one on one 69 positions.” PNSFW.
Hello ruby in the dust
Has your band begun to rust
After all the sin we’ve had
I was hopin’ that we’d turn back
— Neil Young, Cowgirl In The Sand
I made the 10 Most Powerful Women in Blogging list…, Joi Ito was considered a woman! (And I, admittedly, thought for a long time that Anil Dash was a woman, just from the name and the color of the blog. :-P)
Thing I Love About The Ruby Community #3,247: Whenever I think, “it would be smart if there were a way…”, there usually already is. — David Brady
Makin’ (Losin’) Money on the Web, by Kurt Cagle. When people argue for both sides, nothing has changed.
DRUIDSTREET V., using Backpack for tumblelogging. Via TumbleTumble.
A Generator for Type Checkers, thesis of Holger Gast.