Anarchaia

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

06oct2005

Wise Man, Freeman J. Dyson reviews “Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman”.

Working offline, Kottke and the dependency to the web.

gun by xpremobabix

Nematodes: The Making of ‘Beneficial’ Network Worms, if you need this, your administration is broken, nothing less.

CLEX is a free file manager with a full-screen user interface. Promising, but not prime-time. I especially miss a second panel.

Problems with the IETF’s copying permissions, this sounds like a good idea.

20 of your unusual words at BBC News. Among them: Luftkissenfahrzeug, amakudari and culebra.

Congruence, or why 0.25 modulo 7 is 2.

Trails of troubles,
Roads of battles,
Paths of victory,
We shall walk.
— Bob Dylan, Paths of Victory

SUSE Linux 10.0 OSS GM has been released. In case you’ve got nothing better to do.

…seagull by Yogi

Taggen ist eine Kunst, erster Kommentar: “sorry, aber ich bin der Meinung, dass es echte kollektive Intelligenz nicht gibt.”

Tailor is a tool to migrate changesets between ArX, Bazaar, Bazaar-NG, CVS, Codeville, Darcs, Git, Mercurial, Monotone, Subversion and Tla repositories.

The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak. — J. B. Bossuet, Politics from Holy Writ

New Ideas Worth Ignoring, John E. Simpson doesn’t like Flock. I don’t really see its benefit either.

-Ofun by Geoff Broadwell. “When Autrijus Tang started the Pugs project to create a Perl 6 compiler, he had an explicit goal: optimize for fun.” Great idea. (And in the end a lot like -Onon-suck.)

Does Python have a concurrency problem? by Jeremy Jones.

TrueCrypt: Open-Source On-the-Fly Encryption on Windows, Nitesh Dhanjani tells about the “hidden volume” feature, which is very interesting from an social POV.

Your breath is sweet
Your eyes are like two jewels in the sky.
Your back is straight, your hair is smooth
On the pillow where you lie.
But I don’t sense affection
No gratitude or love
Your loyalty is not to me
But to the stars above.
— Bob Dylan, One More Cup Of Coffee

“We Own Our Own Data!” or “Why both Google and Microsoft already already know this and are TOTALLY fine with the idea.” by M. David Peterson.

Is AJAX Here to Stay?, Jordan Frank asks. I think so. At least until HTML completely gets replaced.

Best Buy or Best Lie?, MoJoPokeyBlue on brown-nose clerks.

Free software art by yaxu. “Examples of F/OSS applications thriving in the digital art world include Processing, Supercollider and Pure Data.” Good overview.

electric by mjutabor

A short git tutorial, there happened a lot to Git since I last looked at it. Definitely worth a closer look.

LTT illuminated bathtub, great thingy.