Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
23aug2006
Google Music Trends, see what Google Talk users are listening to.
Data Viz.: Why now?, sildes by Michal Migurski, presented at UX Week. Some excellent stuff.
10,000 Reasons Civilization is Doomed, #1: Paris Hilton.
Entrepreneurially yours, Rael Dornfest leaves O’Reilly. I really wonder what he’s doing next.
Bingo watch by EleeNo, bing!
Will some cold woman in this desert land
Make me feel like a real man?
Take this rock and roll refugee
Oooh, baby set me free.
Oooh, I need a dirty woman.
Oooh, I need a dirty girl.
— Pink Floyd, Young Lust
nginx is a HTTP server and IMAP/POP3 proxy server written by Igor Sysoev. Worth investigation.
New York Heat Island, where is the best A/C? ;-)
Goodnight Zune: Bill finally calls it quits. For children, neat filk by David Young.
A New Way of Tracking Users’ Browsing Habits, tricky hack.
visearch, a search engine with Vi look’n’feel. WJW.
What Israeli security could teach us, s/could/should/.
Animals on the Underground, fun for the whole family.
Please Stop Using Perl 3, by Curtis Poe. He argues that modern Perl is perfectly readable and understandable. I partly agree, but the language really doesn’t make it easy (cf. C++).
Please Let Your Zombie Software Just Die, by chromatic. I always think that when I hear of REXX.
Do-It-Yourself Documentation? Research Into the Effectiveness of Mailing Lists (Part 1), by Andy Oram. “In a series of blogs I’ll present the results of a modest research project of mine to measure the effectiveness of two mailing lists, which will be the start of what I hope to be a larger study.”
Crepes, Mastered, by thaig. Yum!
What if Mindpixel was right?, by zenofchai. “I was more interested in his theories on cognition and the brain as a hypersphere, optimised for surface area.”
Learn to love me
Assemble the ways
Now, today, tomorrow and always
My only weakness is a list of crime
My only weakness is … well, never mind, never mind
— The Smiths, Shoplifters Of The World Unite
My Dell battery experience, by Jeremy Jones. “I didn’t notice a hazardous materials stamp on the box. Nor did I notice a “Caution: exploding battery enclosed” label to affix to the box.”
Calculating Distances of Vectors, good overview with formulas.
arcatan bugging, Anarchaia now has a favicon.
Template-driven code, actually, I think Tornado would be a good case to use C++, even… there are not many cases out there.
The Principle of Hard Not to Understand, definitely a worthy language design goal.
Binding.of_caller and breakpoint breaking in 4 days (Ruby 1.8.5), at least 1.8.5 will be released then. ;-)
Objective CAML for Scientists is a book to be taken with in a case of fire, Joel Reymont says.
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