Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
15mar2006
Secure Voice over IP: Zfone, the Zfone public beta is available today for Mac OS X and Linux. Source is available.
Tales from the Public Domain: Bound By Law?, Comics on Copyright.
The ext3cow file system is a time-shifting file system implemented with copy-on-write (COW) and based on the very popular ext2/ext3 file system.
Five reasons why you should never use PostgreSQL – ever, by W. Jason Gilmore. “In an effort to dispel some of the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) surrounding this impressive product, instead, I’ll put forth several of the most commonplace reasons companies have for not investigating PostgreSQL further.”
GNU ‘idutils’ is a collection of programs to generate and query an ID database, for really fast searching of identifiers (but not only) scattered in various source files.
Making music out of menace, a Colombian musician has fashioned guitars out of rifles to help spread a message of peace. Music made with real guns would be cool, too. ;-)
I laid a divorcee in New York City
I had to put up some kind of a fight
The lady she all dressed me up in roses
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind
— The Rolling Stones, Country Honk
Bombs, guns, knives, kites…, Flying a kite in Pakistan is a dangerous pastime. Be careful!
An argument against standards, by Jon Udell. “[W]hy can’t the standard description and the standard implementation be the same thing?”
pREST: A REST-based Protocol for Pervasive Systems, “Our approach is based on the REST architectural style and emphasizes abstraction of data and services as resources, interoperation via self describing data and service orchestration with loosely typed components.”
Programming: 50, 100 years from now, discussion on LtU.
Wx-y goodness, Dan Sugalski likes WxWindows and ports WxMozilla to Perl. Hmm.
More statistics on user clicks and browser settings, by Dan Zambonini. Very valuable data for web designers and developers.
I asked the painter why the roads are colored black.
He said, “Steve, it’s because people leave
and no highway will bring them back.”
So if you don’t want me I promise not to linger,
But before I go I gotta ask you dear about the tan line on your ring finger.
— Silver Jews, Random Rules
An illegal prime is a prime number which contains information forbidden by law to possess or distribute.
Call graphs to analyze code dependencies, or just because, very cool, Mauricio.
Cellular automaton puzzle, use your own cellular automaton (read: brain) to solve that. ;-)