Anarchaia

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

05dec2005

Dean on Textpattern 2006, an interview with Dean Allen.

sort_by{rand}’s bias makes BigDecimal cry, Mauricio Fernandez uses the Mathematic Hammer and slays sort_by{rand}. No-one gets hurt.

in the forest 2 by isas_universe

The sacred and profane
The pleasure and the pain
Somewhere your fingerprints remain concrete
And it’s your face I’m looking for — on every street
— Dire Straits, On Every Street

Canvascape—“3D Walker”, Doom in JavaScript is just crazy.

Night of the living python, you won’t believe it: Reddit has been rewritten in Python. LMAO.

Das Eisverkäufer-am-Strand-Problem illustriert mögliche Strategien zweier Anbieter bei der Suche nach dem optimalen Standort in einer Marktwirtschaft mit Wettbewerb. Kannte ich noch nicht.

The way I feel about Lisp is the way I feel about socialism. Neat ideals and I really wish they worked on humans! — Why The Lucky Stiff, Two Things

18 Tricks to Teach Your Body, among them useful ones.

Magnetic Liquid Weirdness, ferrofluids are cool.

Snakes and Rubies conference recap by Adrian Holovaty. Features lots of links to other recaps.

The Iteration List is a nice way to find a date everyone has time.

Doodle is a web-based meeting scheduler. It is used to find suitable dates for appointments with other people. No registration is necessary.

Tag formats: Can’t we all just get along?, no of course, because we are living in an anarchic folksonomy…

Different applications will need different kinds events: those generated by, say, a cruise missile will be rather different than those of a vending machine (unless it’s designed for particularly tough neighborhoods). — John Vlissides, Type Laundering

WikiMatrix, compare a lot of Wikis.

Sicherheitsrisiko Rauchverbot, meine Güte, endlich einer der durchblickt: “Durch das Verbot verschiebt sich das Problem nur vom Schulhof auf die Straße”.

Why People Aren’t Using Haskell, Dejan Jelovic tries to explain. Therefore, if you want to be special, learn Haskell. :-)

Antigravitation, WJW. Nifty.

The Ruby Advent Calendar is more a blog, but still better than nothing.

Zimtsterne Advent 2005 by Little-Rattle

Sometimes you communicate all you need to say
Without saying anything, I guess we were that way
— Dan Bern, All We Did

Frustration with Unified Identities by Robert Cooper. We really need an open, decentral and flexible identity management.

thepinkflyer.com, “Why is this flyer pink?”. This is the most awesome social hack I ever saw. Look at all of them!

The Cyclotron Comes to the ‘Hood by Xeni Jardin. “Albert Swank Jr., a 55-year-old civil engineer in Anchorage, Alaska, is a man with a mission. He wants to install a nuclear particle accelerator in his home.”