Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
09mar2006
Z machine exceeds two billion degrees Kelvin, hotter than the interiors of stars. Come on baby light my fire!
Eventful is a site to find events that you care about, share your discoveries with friends, family, and contacts, and receive alerts about events that haven’t even been announced yet.
Neurotransmitters, this year’s ETech talk by Sam Ruby. (And the lovely slides finally use JS, whee.)
An Introduction to awk, it was my first unixish programming language.
Blum Blum Shub is a pseudorandom number generator proposed in 1986 by Lenore Blum, Manuel Blum and Michael Shub.
You got my heart you got my soul
You got the silver you got the gold
You got the diamonds from the mine
Well that’s all right, it’ll buy some time
— The Rolling Stones, You Got The Silver
The Emerging Art of Agile Publishing, by Michael Fitzgerald. Good ideas.
What is Web 2.0?, Robert Kaye figured it and says: “Web 2.0 is the writable web and the Web 1.0 was the read-only web.”
SXSW 2006 starts tomorrow! I wished I could download the showcases again, but where to store them…
Adult Baby fetish guy working at SmartFilter?, who needs filtering, anyway? But kinda bizarre. ;-)
Opiate of the Masses, by spaceghoti. “Here I’m going to come out in a complete reversal of previous submissions and point out how religion can have very positive benefits.”
OscarsX, an XML database for the Academy Awards.
Language bindings for Vlerq. “Wow, an hour or so of work, and all of Vlerq’s views and operators could become available in Ruby”. Gimme!
The Rule of Least Power, at the W3C. “The “Rule of Least Power” suggests choosing the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose.” Not sure I agree.
Conformal Projections, the angle between any two lines on the sphere must be the same between their projected counterparts on the map; in particular, each parallel must cross every meridian at right angles.
Well the train come in the station
And I looked her in the eye
Whoa, I felt so sad so lonesome
That I could not help but cry
— The Rolling Stones, Love In Vain
Your Ruby Gotcha of the Day, the classic “Is it a local variable or a method?”-issue.
Entrepreneurial Proverbs, yeah, great ones. “Losing sucks”.
Release: uformats 1.2, by Paul Battley. “It started off as an hReview 0.2 parser, but the dependence of hReview on some other microformats led it to grow several more features. hReview 0.3 added even more microformats, so it handles those, too.”