Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

09jan2007

The First Million, the first BLDGBLOG event, January 13th in LA.

Beltesassar’s Animation Festival, “An eight-part travelling torrent, still alive!” _why goes torrent.

Colors by Perla*

Dreaming in Code, a book by Scott Rosenberg. A sample chapter is available online.

I’m softly exhaling
You give me release
I’m softly exhaling
You give me release
— Ane Brun, Balloon Ranger

Test Doubles: A Taxonomy of Pretend Objects, a pictorial explanation.

“You write free software, therefore you…”, but Lars Wirzenius says: “I’m a free software developer and the only thing about me you can deduce from that is that I develop free software.”

Whitespace, by Mark Boulton at A List Apart. The best pieces of a web site are empty, or how did it go?

How to Grok Web Standards, by Craig Cook at A List Apart. “For the visual designer, really understanding web standards means you’ll have to change the way you think about design.”

Joel Reymont’s GPL OpenPoker, as packaged by Zach Beane.

PICT1459 by 咖啡因

Parser Combinators, Gilad Bracha did them in Smalltalk, which results in a rather nice syntax.

I was starting to think
The world was going to end when the calendar turned
But now you’re here I see the future baby
And they can let the calendar burn.
— Dan Bern, Chelsea Hotel

Milk in tea ‘blocks health gains’, another thing I never did in my life.

How Do You Fix an Undersea Cable?, a very very good question.

More obstacles in the way of progress, new wacky signs.