Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
27mar2007
Celebrating Two Years of Anarchaia, this tumblelog is now two years old, but shows no sign of age. Tumble on!
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
For he’s a jolly good fellow,
Which nobody can deny.
— For He’s A Jolly Good Fellow
Croquet SDK 1.0 released, “The Croquet Consortium has released version 1.0 of Croquet, the 3-D virtual environment based on Squeak.”
Semi-identical twins discovered, “They are the result of two sperm cells fertilising a single egg, which then divided to form two embryos – and each sperm contributed genes to each child.” They still teach here that this is impossible…
Teenage eyes were open wide
Don’t you think we know by now
How foul and plagued our future cries
From what you’ve handed down
— Dead Moon, 13 Going On 21
What makes a great photo?, with truly awesome examples. Must see.
DocBookWiki can display DocBook documents online. Different from the other applications, which convert a DocBook document into HTML first, in order to display it online, DocBookWiki converts it on the fly, so that the format for saving the document will still be XML (DocBook). DocBookWiki can also be used to edit a DocBook document online, from the web.
jQuery OSCMS presentation slides, by Steve Wittens.
Applied Web Heresies, Avi Bryant’s Etech 2007 slides. I’m rather skeptic, especially about the URIs.
How Naming Works At Microsoft, ehehehe.
No sex, please: we’re Japanese – and married, “The secret of Japan’s exceptionally low birth rate is out – more than a third of married couples do not have sex”. It’s more fun not to be married, anyway. :-P
Ruining the User Experience, by Aaron Gustafson at A List Apart. Most don’t need a tutorial for that. ;-)
Inside Your Users’ Minds: The Cultural Probe, by Ruth Stalker-Firth at A List Apart. “Cultural probes are a “quick and dirty” way of looking into users’ thoughts.”
Cross-Browser Scripting with importNode(), by Anthony Holdener at A List Apart. “I ran into difficulty with the DOM-compliant approach I had envisioned. A two-day journey into the world of XML DOM support for web browsers lay between me and a satisfactory solution.”
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech”, why Kathy Sierra cancelled her ETech presentations. This really really sucks. Shame. “Freedom of speech—however distasteful and rude the speech may be, is crucial. But when those words contain threats of harm or death, they can destroy a life.”
MasterView: Evolution of a WYSIWYG Template Engine, Jeff Barczewski’s talk at the Mountain West Ruby Conference.