Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
06jul2006
An open letter to the political blogosphere, by Jimbo Wales. “This can be the start of the era of net-driven participatory politics.”
Do your graphics say the wrong thing?, nice example.
Release Late, Release Rarely, by Aaron Swartz: “[W]hen others look at it, all they see is a piece of junk.”
Making Reliable Distributed Systems in the Presence of Software Errors, Damien Katz found Joe Armstrong’s thesis.
Stock Cloud is a tag cloud like display of stock ticker symbols. The larger the ticker symbol the more frequent that company distributes press releases.
It s hard enough tryin to overthrow the bosses
And carry out Karl Marx’s wishes
Let alone tryin’ to get some capitalist running dog
To do the dishes
— Dan Bern, The Last Communist On Earth
Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information. Cool!
Programming Languages and Lambda Calculi looks like a comprehensive treatement of the semantics of typed and untyped call-by-value programming languages.
Okay, Give Hpricot 0.2 a Go, I tried it, it can munge the worst HTML code.
BlogHer, where woman bloggers are.
Convert Ruby to JavaScript, by Paul Battley. “It seems somehow wrong, like grafting a pretty girl’s head onto a donkey, but I’ve done it anyway!”
Ich mein die Menschenjäger und die Schreibtischtäter,
die uns Millionen mal ermordet haben,
die spüren schon die Schlinge um ihren weißen Kragen.
— Ton Steine Scherben, Menschenjäger
Some crazy guy announced a Python implementation in Common Lisp!, Stefan Scholl says. Neat.
0 tests, 0 assertions, *but* 0 failures, 0 errors, Patrick Logan about Steve Loughran noticing there are more tests for Ant than for SOAP, WS-A and the other stuff that I don’t know why people still talk about.