Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
21may2007
harald schmidt ist tot, schreibt Felix Schwenzel und hat wohl leider recht.
fuzed provides a YAWS Frontend for Rails applications.
Frank’s Compulsive Guide To Postal Addresses, Effective Addressing for International Mail.
lib2geom (2Geom in private life) was initially a library developed for Inkscape but will provide a robust computational geometry framework for any application. It is not a rendering library, instead concentrating on high level algorithms such as computing arc length.
We’ll fly the night away,
Hang out the whole next day,
Things will be okay,
You wait and see.
— Bob Dylan, One More Weekend
How Cory Doctorow Keeps Hostile Jerks From Taking Over His Online Community, analysis by David Marcus.
Play Ogg! (Still waiting for native iTunes support. Sigh.)
The Mercury Project for review: add infrastructure for Erlang backend, whoa!
Sunless Sea, the Xanadu cyberarchaeology project.
Helix, a 1D skyscraper with a single corridor. Crazy clever idea.
Rig of the Week: Al Gore’s setup, yum yum yum!
Ripple RDF Scripting Language, “This paper introduces a dedicated scripting language for linked data, called Ripple, whose programs both operate upon and reside in RDF graphs. Ripple is a variation on the concatenative theme of functional, stack-oriented languages such as Joy and Factor, and takes a multivalued, pipeline approach to query composition.”
US high-speed Internet is slow, German too, btw.
PresentationSlides of RailsConf 2007, at the O’Reilly wiki. Some really good stuff there.
The Regressive Imagery Dictionary, “is a coding scheme for text analysis that is designed to measure “primordial” and conceptual content. Primordial thought is the kind of free-form, associative thinking involved in fantasy and dreams.”
Demolition Day, blow-up nuclear plants.
You’ve come this close
You can come even closer
The gunshots get louder
And the world spins faster
And things just get further
And further apart
The head from the hands
And the hands from the heart.
— Lhasa Del Sela, My Name
Elevator to the underworld, scary but awesome: “the catacombs came with “a hydraulic coffin lift or catafalque to transport the coffins from the chapel to the vaults below.””
The Ruport Book is a free book on Ruby Reports, which will include both reference materials as well as real world usage of ruport, ruport-util, and our acts_as_reportable Rails plugin. Great stuff: “This is a volunteer based effort, written by the lead developers of ruport, Gregory Brown and Michael Milner. We hope to have the book in print some time before RubyConf 2007, with all the content licensed under a free documentation license.”
Plain Text Wiki bundle for TextMate, by Matt Webb.
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