Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
11aug2006
9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes, gives me the creeps. “Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD’s Northeast headquarters, the author reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day—and the Pentagon’s apparent attempt to cover it up”
DebianTimes, a planet of Debian announcements.
Erlang Style Concurrency, good introduction.
Devil facial tumour disease causes tumours to form in and around the mouth, interfering with feeding and eventually leading to death by starvation. Eww.
The HyperScope is a high-performance thought processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to documents in sophisticated ways. It’s the brainchild of Doug Engelbart, the inventor of hypertext and the mouse, and is the first step towards his larger vision for an Open Hyperdocument System. Uses Dojo and OPML, GPLed.
Iterative Architecture, talk by Matt Webb at Futuresonic.
Asked “Where are you going?”
Somewhere far away
She was standing at the window
I won’t forget her face
— Dead Moon, Unknown Passage
Post OSCON I: The darker side of speaking, by Kevin Shockey. “Let’s face it, if you are going to speak at a conference, it is most likely an extra workload on top of your day job, and probably on top of your evening pursuits.”
Implementing Dynamic Languages, by Patrick Logan. “Maybe a more interesting question is why aren’t Java and C# implementations more thoughtfully layered on top of especially efficient implementations of dynamic languages?”
Untwisting Python Network Programming, by Kendrew Lau. “This article introduces basic client-side networking using both core Python modules and the Twisted framework.”
Google Maps Was Built in Two Weeks, cool story.
The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence (SIAI) is a nonprofit research think tank and public interest institute for the study and advancement of beneficial artificial intelligence and ethical cognitive enhancement.
ActiveRecord has gone 1337! This plugin allows you to make everything read out of the database be displayed in h4x0r lingo. WJW.
Rails 1.1.6, backports, and full disclosure, No disclosure with a broken fix, loovely. (And heck, I felt the fix didn’t fit.)
I can’t help it
If you might think I’m odd,
If I say I’m not loving you for what you are
But for what you’re not.
— Bob Dylan, I’ll Keep It With Mine
Notational Velocity is an application that stores and retrieves notes. While there are many, many note-taking programs for Mac OS X, Notational Velocity is the only one that actually operates in a useful manner. Worth a try.