Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20oct2006
RailsConf Europe 2006, slides and audio is up.
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, impress your creationist friends.
Haskell, PDF and Penrose Tilings, “I am currently learning Haskell and the only way to learn a programming language is coding. So, I decided to write a PDF library.” Not the easiest project.
Dead LCD pixels, eeeevil!
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
— Bob Dylan, It’s Alright, Ma
Petition zum Verbot von Wahlcomputern, “Der Chaos Computer Club unterstützt die Online-Petition beim Deutschen Bundestag zur Abschaffung von Wahlcomputern in Deutschland. Hierin wird die ersatzlose Streichung des § 35 Bundeswahlgesetz (Stimmabgabe mit Wählgeräten) gefordert.” Der Chaos Computer Club bittet darum seine Mitglieder und alle Gleichgesinnten, die Petition zu unterzeichnen und zu verbreiten.
Rapid Website Development with CGI::Application, by Mark Stosberg.
Running a Sprint, by Steve Holden. “If there’s anything traditional in the world of agile development, sprints are the traditional way to give a project a boost by focusing the efforts of a group on specific development issues.”
If you’re not blogging, you’re wasting your life, by Jonathan Wellons. Uncovers the principle of Anarchaia: “You should be sharing the things you learned so other people will learn from it and maybe teach you something new. You should be entertaining the rest of us; and we will return the favor.”
Gold mine holds life untouched by the Sun, “The bacteria exist without the benefit of photosynthesis by harvesting the energy of natural radioactivity to create food for themselves.”
ocre is an easy and free OCR library.
So it slips through your hands like grains of sand, you watch it go
There’s no time to be lost, you’ll pay the cost so get it right
There’s no way out of here, when you come in you’re in for good
— David Gilmour, There’s No Way Out Of Here
The night before the Intel talk, slides by Audrey Tang.
Wanted: a microformat to unleash the real widget revolution, would be useful.
The Soda Languages, _why discovers Idst, Pepsi and Jolt.