Anarchaia

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

16jun2006

Accidental entrepreneur David Weekly sets a new record for startup failure, hear the story behind Singlestat.us.

Time to Switch?, Tim Bray [pw]onders too. Sounds a lot like my thoughts…

IMG_0769 by El Fuser

And Oranges, by John Gruber. Really extensive and in-depth analysis of Mark Pilgrim’s reasons to switch.

How to Stop Laughing when You Laugh at Inappropriate Times, my personal tip: Stick your tounge behind your lower lip, and softly bite onto it. Laughing is not possible that way.

Re: What You Can’t Say, Paul Graham revisits his essay.

ChangeLog for Emacs, taken from the Mercurial mirror. Nice. (also see the mirror notes.)

I hope that you’ll
Be careful wherever you go
I keep seeing crosses
On the side of the road
Them crosses
On the side of the road
— Dan Bern, Crosses

Banana slug on Wikipedia. On the German version they note that it’s penis can be upto twice as long as the slug itself! Unfortunately, sometimes they can’t get the penis out anymore and then the other slug will bite it off… ouch.</biology-lession>

10 things to change in your thinking when building REST XML Protocols, by Kimbro Staken. A good list.

Fabric Tests shows some example of Fabric, the CouchDB query language. All these semicolons, sheesh…

darcs-graph is a tool to draw pretty graphs of a darcs repository’s activity, including sliding averages.

Cities of Amorphous Carbonia, “Under extreme pressures the researchers found that CO2 forms a crystalline solid, dubbed ‘amorphous carbonia’ (a-CO2).”

This is true
I am fragile just like you
You and me
We are love and misery
— Tobias Fröberg, Love & Misery

merges_sm002 by sashaorloff

NPW’06 talk, by Audrey Tang. I’d really like to see her presentation toolchain.

Gates Easing Out at Microsoft, “Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said Thursday he will transition out of a day-to-day role at the company he co-founded to spend more time on global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.” I’m really curious about what Ray Ozzie will change…