Anarchaia

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

10dec2005

Fitnesse and Ruby—a basic tutorial by Cory Foy.

Auto-Selecting Navigation on 24ways. Nothing special, but a very nifty trick.

Das ganz persönliche Weihnachtsgeschenk, darauf hat die Welt gewartet: Geschenke mit DNA.

IMG_3716 by nanophotonic

Sproutliner is a free web service that helps you manage your projects and ideas (think of it as a supercharged structured to-do list). Add RESTful export and you have a kick-ass app.

HOW TO: Make a ring out of a soda bottle, I just tried it. My fingers are a bit too thin, though.

Can you grow cress in a keyboard? by Johannes Hjorth. WJW.

French Government Lobbied to Ban Free Software, illegal it’s more fun anyway.

Plötzlich steigen Wolken auf—dick und rabenschwarz.
Nichts ist jetzt mehr übrig von der sternenklaren Nacht.
Die Familie ist im Garten, das Feuer längst im Dachstuhl,
Alarm in der ganzen Nachbarschaft.
— Die Roten Rosen, Weihnachten bei den Brandts

Turn AirPort Off, let’s hope that doesn’t really work.

What is 99% uptime anyway? by Ian Holsman. It’s good to see this in relation to a year.

3-2-1-meins: Ein Excel-Sicherheitsloch zu versteigern. Super Idee.

Samorost 2, the sequel of the probably best Flash point-and-click game ever. Awesome.

Web Design and Development Trends for 2006 by Andy Budd. I love speculation.

Riesenmuschi mit zwei beinharten Beinen auf dem Learning GNU Emacs Cover gefunden. SFW.

Unwed Numbers, The mathematics of Sudoku, a puzzle that boasts “No math required!” By Brian Hayes.

DSC00265 by rrrrogan

Small Services Statement 1.0 by Dan Moniz. This will work, I’m sure.

I’m looking for a girl, I think you know the kind,
the kind that makes you come six times by the end of your sleigh ride.
We’d make each other hot, we’d hold each other tight
and if my christmas wish comes true, we’d do it every night.
— Die Roten Rosen, Jingle Bells

Reddit and Lisp psychosis, good analysis by Dave Roberts.

So, um. Brian Mastenbrook claims that he would use Factor over Ruby if he was to rewrite Reddit. What makes him think that his Lisp knowledge is useless in Ruby? And Factor doesn’t have cons anymore, remember.

The Ruby Array API, Jim Weirich compares opinions. IMO, it doesn’t matter whether it’s 78 methods or 25, as long as they do what you need every day (too bad, Common Lisp }:-)).

The Tetris Story by Vadim Gerasimov, the inventor of Tetris.

Firicat, an online collaborative Wolof dictionary. Firicat is different from other Wolof dictionaries because it’s not built by ‘experts’; instead it’s created by the everyday users of the Wolof language (yes, including you).