Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24oct2006
VM and Gmail Setup for Dummies, by Bill Clementson. Well, I use fetchmail and postfix, Maildir, nnml and Gnus. It was a mess to set up, though.
Methodischer Kulturalismus, ein preisgekrönter Wikipedia-Artikel.
Fedora Core 6, “The Fedora Project is pleased to announce the release of Fedora Core 6 (Zod). Install-time access to third-party package repositories, extensive performance improvements, support for Intel-based Macs, and a new GUI virtualization manager are some of the primary features.”
Ruby.Search is very simple app that searches various Ruby/Rails document repositories. Really neat.
How to Be a Great Host, by John Gladding on A List Apart. “Anyone who can host a great party can start a successful forum.”
Woo oh oh oh
And life comes in ones and twos and threes and fours
Woo oh oh oh
And I hear you knocking at my door
— The Kooks, Time Awaits
Print to Preview, by Pete McVicar on A List Apart. IMO, too many pages don’t feature print stylesheets (mine included…).
Living with a Ghost, Damien Katz turns crazy.
Repository Formats Matter, Keith Packard of X.org fame on why he prefers Git.
Author Interview: Joshua Smith, Pat Eyler interviewed the author of Practical OCaml.
Unicode and Ruby, Tim Bray about his RubyConf 2006 presentation (includes a link to the slides in the comments).
Top 10 Secrets of the Marketing Process, by Seth Godin.
Towel Incident At The Westin Tokyo, by Kirk Biglione. Pretty amusing.
The Anti-release, or: why I didn’t link to Firefox 2 yet.
In Gottes Namen
hält er über euch Gericht.
In Gottes Namen
nimmt er sich das Recht,
dass er euch heilig ist.
— Die Toten Hosen, In Gottes Namen
Web design is 95% typography, why don’t they teach that in school?
Constructive Mathematics, explained at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Mizar Light for HOL Light, by Freek Wiedijk. Including a nice example of a computer-generated proof.
What Makes a Good Programming Language?, by David Chisnall. Carefully and neutral written article.