Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
10jun2006
XHTML effort bears fruit, by Rick Jelliffe. “Glad to see the National Toilet Map is producing XHTML.”
A skateboarder though?, by Gregory Brown. On the cover art of Agile Web Development With Rails, 2. Ed..
15th World Puzzle Championship, Borovets (Bulgaria), enjoy.
Day One of RubyKaigi2006, RedHanded has coverage of the first conference dedicated to Ruby in Japan. A Ruby 1.9.1 stable release, fun.
lastnightsparty, “Where were you last night?” Great shots, NSFW.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is the fear that originates in the the Biblical verse Revelation 13:18 which indicates that the number 666 is the Number of the Beast, linked to Satan or the Anti-Christ. Outside the Christian faith, the phobia has been further popularized as a leitmotif in various horror films.
Firefox for Emacs users, Part 2 (Tips and Techniques). By Bill Clementson.
Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology, by K. Eric Drexler. Now available online.
Termite is an Erlang-like distributed programming system written in Scheme. It requires the latest version of Gambit-C. The source now can be downloaded!
And though I walk home alone
I might walk home alone …
…But my faith in love is still devout
— The Smiths, Rusholme Ruffians
SvnX is an open source GUI for most features of the svn client binary.
wikiHow is a collaborative writing project to build the world’s largest how-to manual.
Thune is an experimental interpreted language mixing ideas from Forth and Rebol. Sounds pretty nice.
Schematron Implementer’s FAQ, by Rick Jelliffe. Would be nice to see more usage of this interesting thing.
On XSLT 2.0 and Office 2007: Words Of Wisdom From The Trenches , by M. David Peterson. Now, all you need is a BibTeX parser for XSLT. ;-)
Some More Ruse Related News Items, by Jim Weirich. Looks like the spam problem is solved.
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht, aber unsere Liebe nicht.
Alles, alles geht vorbei, doch wir sind uns treu.
— Drafi Deutscher, Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
Drafi Deutscher, Ruhe in Frieden.
Rapid Ruby spread! Warning: Ruby is contagious!, Phil Tomsom seems to have a nice job.
META Insanity, John Wiseman says: “I’m beginning to wonder if maybe Henry Baker is insane.” But hey, that paper is way cool.