Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
31jul2006
Chmox, read your CHM documents on your Mac. Very nice for eBooks (I wish it had bookmarks…).
Pound is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end for Web server(s). Highly useful.
Reverse-Proxying mod_proxy_core with Lighttpd, very neat!
What I’ve Really Been Working on at Google, a guy behind Google Code tells. Hmm, they run SVN on BigTable…
Google’s BigTable, why did I never hear about that? Video.
Without a reply,
I left by the moon,
Turn, turn, turn again.
And was in his chambers
By the next afternoon,
Turn, turn to the rain
And the wind.
— Bob Dylan, Percy’s Song
Beedogs.com is the premier online repository for pictures of dogs in bee costumes. I love the web.
How To Criticize Computer Scientists, or: Avoiding Ineffective Deprecation And Making Insults More Pointed. “It explains how to insult CS research, shows where to find the Achilles’ heel in any project, and illustrates how one can attack a researcher.”
Pink Noise, masks background noise to help you concentrate. Now with source code and white noise, for those less colorful.
WriteRoom is a full screen, distraction free, writing environment. Unlike standard word processors that focus on features, WriteRoom is just about you and your text. I’ll keep my Emacs, though.
A world of difference between writing and word processing, I always wondered how people can write whole books in MS Word.
Mayfair? Put It On The Card, “Monopoly board game players can now pay for properties with debit cards.” WJW.
Friends and Family 2.0, a poem, Poetry 2.0 by Jason Kottke.
A Sketch for London, “Architects have been invited to take an outsider’s view, and as such submit a sketch for an imaginative project in the city of London.”
And them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico
Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire
And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free,
Bringing everything that’s near to me nearer to the fire.
— Bob Dylan, Caribbean Wind
Ten Thousand Statistically Grammar-Average Fake Band Names, doesn’t include Hashclash, but Playwrights Anus.
Ruby-DockApp is a ruby extention library for making DockApps.
Panographies: Panoramas on Steroids, “Taking dozens of photos of a scene, she assembles a patchwork of images that more accurately represents what your eyes see when you’re not looking through a viewfinder.” Awesome!