Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17feb2007
Daytrotter is a music blog which features a different band every week.
A brief update with some numbers for hardware load-balanced mongrels, by Jason Hoffman. 4000 req/s, whoa!
Cuba Embraces Open-Source Software, with help of RMS.
God builds a church
The devil builds a chapel
Like the thistles that are growing
‘round the trunk of a tree
— Tom Waits, Misery Is The River Of The World
Line Rider “Discarded”, best one ever.
ONE: A Space Odyssey is a minute-long animated LEGO parody of Stanley Kubrick’s Sci-Fi masterpiece. Awesome.
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Macrovision CEO Fred Amoroso’s Response to Steve Jobs’s ‘Thoughts on Music’, by John Gruber. Excellent, Must read.
Wikisky consolidates astronomical, astrophysical and other information about different space objects and astrophysical facts.
Random Number in a Feed (for Pipes Maybe?), crayon code by _why.
The freedom to be unpopular, “A German court today sentenced infamous Holocaust denier Ernst Zundel to five years in prison for holding a particularly unpopular opinion. […] Whatever happened to “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” I admit I have a kind of bad feeling about this, too.
I’m singing this song, it’s time it was sung
I’ve been putting it off for a while,
But it’s harder by now, ‘cause the truth is so clear
That I cry when I’m seeing you smile.
— Tom Waits, Tom Waits Old Shoes (& Postcards)
Cover the Earth, “A mountain quarry in the county of Fumin, China, has been “artificially painted green by the local forestry bureau” as a way “to simulate planted trees.”” WJW.
Churches of remathematization, we had these pictures this week, but they are worth another look.
Pilot and Passengers Thwart Hijacker in Canary Islands, well done.
To check whether people are actually reading long technical requirements or design documents, liberally sprinkle the text with ridiculous quotes, like “My HoverCraft is Full of Eels.” — Elizabeth Hendrickson
Editing Stretchfilm, by Anders Fagerjord. Stretchtext is an amazing way to write.
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