Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01dec2006
World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the global AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. AIDS has killed more than 25 million people, making it one of the most destructive epidemics in recorded history.
EuroForth 2006 proceedings, featuring some interesting papers.
Open Firmware is now free, most of it is available under the BSD or MIT license.
The people will survive
In their environment
The dirt, scarcity, and emptiness
Of our South
— The Minutemen, Corona
A reflective functional language for hardware design and theorem proving, by J. Grundy, T. Melham, and J. O’Leary.
Keva Apostolova: Pergammon, a free play. PNSFW.
Digitaler Mathe-Adventskalender, yum.
Der artikelfreie Sonntag ist eine Wikipedia-Aktion, bei der die Teilnehmer auf das Anlegen neuer Artikel verzichten. Termin ist der 10. Dezember 2006.
LAMP and the Spread Toolkit, by Jason R. Briggs. Gotta play a bit with that some day.
War/Photography: An Interview with Simon Norfolk, “His photos reveal half-collapsed buildings, destroyed cinemas, and unpopulated urban ruins in diagonal shafts of morning sunlight – from Iraq to Rwanda, Bosnia to Afghanistan – before venturing further afield into more distant, and surprising, landscapes of modern warfare.”
Plat_Forms is an international programming contest. It aims at comparing different technological platforms for developing web-based applications: Java EE, .NET/ASP, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby-on-Rails.
Ruby Advent Calendar 2006, at rubyinside.com. Day 1: “An Easy to use Amazon S3 Library for Ruby”
Catalyst Advent Calendar, 25 days of Catalyst tips! Where’s the Rails calendar?
ObjectivePerl, an Objective-C style syntax and runtime for perl, by Kyle Dawkins.
24 ways to impress your friends. Day 1: “Tasty Text Trimmer by Drew McLellan”.
Haskell Communities and Activities Report, Eleventh edition, dated November 30, 2006.
I live sweat but I dream light years,
I am the tide—the rise and the fall
the reality soldier, the laugh child,
the one of the many, the flame child
— The Minutemen, The Glory of Man
When Linux Runs Out of Memory, by Mulyadi Santosa. OOM!
Never Enough Tabs, WJW.
pandoc converts files from one markup format to another. It can read markdown and (with some limitations) reStructuredText, HTML, and LaTeX, and it can write markdown, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, RTF, and S5 HTML slide shows. It is written in Haskell, using the excellent Parsec parser combinator library.