Anarchaia

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

28sep2006

John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticise (agricultural) civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of prehistoric humans as an inspiration for what a free society should look like.

The OpenMRTD.org project tries to provide a Free Software (sometimes referred to as Open Source) toolset around the new electronic passports. Technically speaking, it wants to provide access to ICAO compliant MRTDs (Machine Readable Travel Documents).

alles wird kürzer, !.

DSC_9151 by Jarlen

Latin profanity on Wikipedia.

Rails is not about inventing your own style, Robby Russell’s quote collection of RailsConf Europe.

So if you see me wearing a swastika tonight
Don’t be angry don’t start a fight
Raise your voices up above
Oooh! Swastika love
— Dan Bern, Swastika

prolog :- tutorial, by J. R. Fisher. For beginners.

So, …, Lispmeister tells his life story.

Testing Concurrent Programs, by Brian Goetz. “Testing concurrent programs is also harder than testing sequential ones. This is trivially true: tests for concurrent programs are themselves concurrent programs.”

Let’s kill off FTP, Chris Josephes proposes. Hell, yes!

How not to teach database design, hehe: “It also seems to have been written by somebody who has the empathy of a brick wall and the teaching ability of a dead albatross.”

And on every planet I would
Have one girl, and I would
Take her out where and whenever
I was flying by that planet
You would be my Earth girl
— Dan Bern, Earth Girl

Thanks Nick, “This week the Perl community lost one of its long time contributors, Nick Ing-Simmons, who died of a heart attack on Monday September 25th 2006.” Sad.

St-Ives at Night by tr33lo

Machine Obstructed Proof, “…I have rarely felt as stupid and frustrated as I did during my first few weeks using Coq.”

Levitz: CouchDb GUI client, looks pretty nice.

$ history|awk '{print $2}'|awk 'BEGIN {FS="|"} {print $1}'|sort|uniq -c|sort -rn|head -10
 115 less
  39 tail
  38 ruby
  28 cd
  27 ls
  21 racc
  18 open
  16 wget
  15 rm
  12 vim

The Baggage Dialogues, The departure lounge of the Buenos Aires international airport, many months ago…

Have fun (without me) at RubyConf!, David A. Black can’t come. I don’t come either…

Songbird 0.2 “Test Flight” has been released.