Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01apr2006
Urgo’s list of April Fool’s Jokes on Websites, has the ones not mentioned here.
Is Google using your CPU time for its computations?, the trick is to use the Ajax-based interactions between clients and server to piggyback a clever remote procedure call…
Duke Nukem Forever is a Rails application, Ugo Cei says.
IWOOT Memory Stick, using razor edge technology that’s so advanced it’s really quite ahead of itself, the Memory Stick enables you to download and upload memory fragments via a temporal lobe sensor and store them on the USB Memory Stick.
slashdot.org, you best check yourself.
I should not keep going on about these two I met last night
One is deep and one is light
One is pretty, one is bright
Virginia and Patricia
Patricia and Virginia
Careless loping curls
Clever, clever girls
— Dan Bern, Virginia And Patricia
Build Your Own Web 2.0 Application Using Fluff and Hot Air, by Jason Gried. “Getting Rich delivers nothing to your customers, and everything to your back pocket.”
Guernsey, Jersey und die Isle of Man erhalten virtuelle Unabhängigkeit ist bei Heise zu lesen. Oder auch: Handys finden Verbreitung als Grabbeigabe, IP-Adressen für die Eitelkeit.
The World’s Most Maintainable Programming Language: Part 5, by chromatic. All alone, they make sense. But you never get them together…
ANTXR, Easy XML Parsing, based on the ANTLR parser generator. Sounds scary.
A cylindrical projection of Jupiter stitched together from photos taken by the Cassini spacecraft during its December 2000 flyby of the planet. Very cool.
Steve Jobs’ Best Quotes Ever, collected by Owen Linzmayer. “Nobody has tried to swallow us since I’ve been here. I think they are afraid how we would taste.”
Are Software Patents Evil?, an essay by Paul Graham.
You know that life really takes it’s toll
and a poet’s gut reaction is to search his very soul.
So much damn confusion before my eyes,
but nothing seems to phase me and this one still survives.
— Ramones, Poison Heart
For over half a decade, the front page of Jamie Zawinski’s site has been hexidecimal gibberish, Greg Knaus says. If it really means what I think it means, it’s pretty lame, actually. ;-)
der kunde ist kunde, hm, ich hab hier paar Levis mit durchgesessenem Hintern (fragt nicht, wie man das schafft…). Ob das wohl auch funktioniert?
vcode, a portable, very fast dynamic code generation system. A bit dusty, but interesting.
What must I test, you’re probably asking. The official XP answer is, you only have to test the things that you want to have work. — Ron Jeffries, Extreme Programming Installed
AOP: Myths and realities, by Ramnivas Laddad.
Scheme and Functional Programming 2006, Call for Papers. I certainly need to get the workshop proceedings.