Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
22oct2006
Kosmopolis and Web 2.0 for independent authors, by Andy Oram.
Rafe’s Law, “An Internet service cannot be considered truly successful until it has attracted spammers.” The late Fugi became successful pretty quickly, I guess…
I hear the ancient footsteps like the motion of the sea
Sometimes I turn, there’s someone there, other times it’s only me.
I am hanging in the balance of the reality of man
Like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.
— Bob Dylan, Every Grain Of Sand
CouchDb 0.5.0, Linux Port and More, “Thanks to the hard work of Jan Lehnardt, CouchDb now builds, installs and runs on Linux. That’s a huge step for the project!” Indeed.
Monads, a Field Guide, nice graphical illustration.
The Making and Meaning of Naked Lunch, by Egil Skallagrimson. “It was his version of the needle to cure all literary lesions and stem the tide of evils that language has the ability to produce through its constantly changing, adapting, regrouping control systems.”
Is YouTube “Web 2.0”?, Joi Ito wonders. “To me, Web 2.0 is about trying to get right those layers of the stack that we weren’t able to get right the last time around.”
I met a young woman whose body was burning,
I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow,
I met one man who was wounded in love,
I met another man who was wounded with hatred,
And it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard,
It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.
— Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall
CDR 2: A generic hash table interface specification for Common Lisp, by Ingvar Mattsson. “The hash table interface specified in the Common Lisp standard is only guaranteed to work with keys that are considered equal with either of EQ, EQL, EQUAL or EQUALP. It is sometimes useful for an application to have hash tables using keys with different equality predicates.”
Using, Understanding, and Unraveling The OCaml Language: From Practice to Theory and vice versa, a free book by Didier Rémy.