Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
19mar2007
Symmetry on Wikipedia.
Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
Where have all the Flowers gone…, by Peter, Paul and Mary with Pete Seeger. Gives me the creeps, in a good way.
Type foundry design procedure, this is not obvious.
[Knuth’s WEB] idea is retrieving programs from document. Mine is making programs to tell what they do, by choosing proper programming languages. — Yukihiro Matsumoto, ruby-talk:243781
Career advice for Nish, most useful Venn diagram I saw for some time.
Category Money forgery on Wikipedia. So useful!
The EURion constellation is a pattern of symbols found on a number of banknote designs since about 1996. It is added to help software detect the presence of a banknote in a digital image. Such software can then block the user from reproducing banknotes to prevent counterfeiting using colour photocopiers.
It’ so amazing
When you’re feeling strong
It’s so amazing, yeah
It’s so amazing
Don’t you get me wrong
It’s so amazing, yeah
— Juliette & The Licks, So Amazing
Rejoice!, a really good Indexed card by Jessica Hagy.
The Shor Quantum Error Correcting Code, and a Monad for Heat.
Perl in the News, Dave Cross writes that as if it was good.
Amazon Susceptible to Cross Site Request Forgery, Nitesh Dhanjani says, and they didn’t fix it in over a year. Ouch.
FizzBuzz 2.0: Adventures in Beautiful Code, by M. David Peterson. FizzBuzz in XSLT. Oh yay.
And I know you got the feeling,
You know, I feel it crawl across the floor
And I know it got you reelin’
And honey honey the call is for war
And it’s wild wild wild wild.
— Patti Smith, Ask The Angels
MountainWest RubyConf, Day Two, by Gregory Brown. Really too bad that Kirk Haines was sick, he wanted to tell a bit about Rack.
Mathematicians Map E8, an 248-dimensional Lie group.
SYWTWAB 6: Wrandom Writing Wrules, by PragDave. Essentially he says “Don’t use Word”. :-)