Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
03may2006
The Cyclopedia of Puzzles, or Sam Loyd’s Cyclopedia of 5000 Puzzles, Tricks, and Conundrums (With Answers). Fantastic to have that online.
The Origin of the World, by Gustave Courbet. Have a look at the date. PNSFW.
We Tried Baseball and It Didn’t Work, by Ron Jeffries. “The fanatical proponents of baseball tell us that it is a very exciting game, fun to play and fun to watch. They are clearly either stupid or evil or both, because we tried baseball and it didn’t work.” Lovely.
Speaking ‘Truthiness’ to Power, by Arvedui. “On Saturday night, Stephen Colbert was (unbelievably) chosen to deliver the annual AP White House Correspondents’ Dinner presidential roast.” (BTW, watch the video if you haven’t seen it already.)
MVC Frameworks in Perl, heretic conclusion by davorg: “Perhaps I should be a Ruby programmer :-)”
And if I saw the sun fall down
I’d pick it up and make a crown,
one that was a perfect fit for you.
— Red Hot Chilli Peppers, If
Ruby at Code Camp, by James Britt. “I prefer to show code. Build an app, go over what what the options are as the code grows, show how Ruby makes it easy to go from simple procedural scripts, to well-order classes and objects, to domain-specific abstractions that enable natural expression of application logic.”
an inconvenient truth, Joi Ito about a movie by “Davis Guggenheim about global warming and Al Gore’s life long effort to learn about and educate the world about the reality and risk of global warming.”
Hedgehog, is a very concise implementation of a Lisp-like language for low-end and embedded devices. It consists of a compiler and a byte code interpreter. The byte code interpreter is written in standard conforming C, is efficient and easily portable, and can be compiled to a very small executable of only some 20 kilobytes in the smallest configuration for the Intel x86 architecture. And it’s got a cute logo too.
Ideals Collide as Vatican Rethinks Condom Ban, must not forget to watch Popetown tonight.
Islands of Total Cartography on BLDG BLOG, “But an island’s spatial limitations also give it a kind of intellectual thrill: by limiting your territory for you, an island seems to promise total knowability.”
AWDwR 2, PragDave says: “To celebrate the release of Rails 1.1, we’re delighted to announce the second edition of Agile Web Development with Rails. This is a major update to the original, and we’re releasing it as a beta book.”
Wenn die Mädchen rote Schuhe tragen und der Westwind küßt ihr Haar
Wenn der Ventilator leise summt, in der Acapulco-Bar
Dann ist der Sommer da,
dann ist der Sommer da
Dann ist der Sommer da und er bleibt das ganze Jahr
— Funny van Dannen, Rote Schuhe
Proofs are Programs: 19th Century Logic and 21st Century Computing, by Philip Wadler. Very good read.
Metaprogramming breakfast , by Gabriele Renzi.
World Press Freedom Day 2006—3 May, UNESCO promotes freedom of expression and freedom of the press as a basic human right.
Greetings Earthlings, a great story. “I AM AN ALIEN! I COME TO YOU IN A GALACTIC STARSHIP.”
Pricing a Project, useful tips at Blue Flavored.
Preventing SVN Exposure, don’t let Capistrano publish possibly sensitive information about your repositories.
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