Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
02nov2006
Agave is a very simple application for the GNOME desktop that allows you to generate a variety of colorschemes from a single starting color.
Convict posts himself to freedom, try this with e-mail!
The new, by Jason Kottke. Featuring: “Cobain is the new Elvis”.
Elephants and Evolution: How the Landscape is Changing for Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Adobe, by John Milan. “The days of purely desktop-based applications are clearly numbered, but so are the days of exclusively web-based apps…”
See that little jersey girl in the see-through top,
with the peddle pushers sucking on a soda pop,
well I bet she’s still a virgin
but it’s only twenty-five ‘til nine,
you can see a million of ‘em
on heartattack and vine.
— Tom Waits, Heartattack and Vine
Trusted Computing for Mac OS X, by Amit Singh. “This page shows you how to “take ownership” of the TPM and begin using it.”
Migrating to XForms, by Paul Sobocinski. By now, XForms looks like a dead-born to me.
The Difference Between IE7 and a Virus, Kurt Cagle is being mean: “What do you call a program that gets loaded in surreptitiously and without your approval, has the potential to lock down your computer so you can’t get access to it, takes up significant system resources and promptly crashes upon running. Normally, I’d call it a virus, except for the last part… viruses are usually stable (and well written) once they start.”
Why Eiffel Might Be Worth a Second Look, by Coryoth. “Eiffel is a surprisingly pragmatic language, and as a result it does have a solid niche market in industry. Over the last few years, however, there have been some changes that make Eiffel a more interesting proposition – it might be worth a second look.”
I know I’m irresponsible and I don’t behave,
and I ruin everything that I do,
and I’ll probably get arrested when I’m in my grave,
but I’ll be savin’ all my love for you.
— Tom Waits, Saving All My Love For You
War City, a series of black-and-white photos of a city under seige [sic] – menacing helicopters buzzing abandoned buildings, furtive figures scrambling down deserted streets, smoke-filled skylines, blood-stained walls and sidewalks, too-young children armed with machine guns…
The Subterraneans, it’s about cave diving, not Kerouac.
rparsec is a recursive descent parser combinator framework for Ruby. Intuitive and declarative API is provided instead of code generation or proprietary BNF-like syntax.