Anarchaia

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

17oct2006

Rethinking Database System Architecture: Towards a Self-tuning RISC-style Database System, by Surajit Chaudhuri, Gerhard Weikum. Six years later, where is the progress?

xmpfilter 0.3.1: RSpec support, emacs love, win32 compatibility. Easily adapted to test/spec, too.

silhouette by hive mind

Generic Graphical Library, GEGL, is scheduled to be the next generation infrastructure for the GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP).

The waters are rising
And the world is on fire
We’re all just gasoline
For the funeral pyre
— Dan Bern, Past Belief

7 Tips for Naming Your Web 2.0 Startup, I 2.0 dn’t fu.ck.ing care.com.

The Dozenal Society of America, “Why do some people propose that we learn to count in twelves in addition to counting by tens?”

Torch Thong, from a 2003 police report filed by officer Aaron Bergh in Menomonie, Wisconsin, concerning a legal search of Anthony Scholfield’s apartment. Featuring lots of underwear.

Pugs 6.2.13 released!, after nearly four months of development and 3400+ commits. “Motivated by increasing use of Pugs in production, this is an extra release in the 6.2.x series, offering another 200%+ improvement in performance, comprehensive support for interoperability with Perl 5 modules, a built-in grammar engine via native perl5 embedding, and much better support for roles, classes and objects.”

Lenz musste laut lachen, und mit dem Lachen griff der Atheismus in ihn und faßte ihn ganz sicher und ruhig und fest. — Georg Büchner, Lenz

The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups, of course by Paul Graham.

Cusp is a development environment for Lisp built on top of the Eclipse platform. It runs SBCL and hooks into the Swank half of Slime.

Cosmic Tornado, awesome shot.

National Day, how they do it in China.

The TCP/IP Drinking Game, sounds like fun. “You can play the TCP/IP drinking game just about any way you want, as long as you remember that the point is to have fun laughing at the bizarre questions which no human being actually knows the answers to.”

Dasher slides, by Hanna Wallach.

pretty lights by lfn

Chaos Computer Club: HSG Wahlsysteme bestätigt Unzulänglichkeit ihrer Wahlcomputer, “Da nun nicht einmal mehr der Hersteller selbst behauptet, dass es manipulationssichere Wahlsysteme geben kann, erneuert der Chaos Computer Club seine Forderung nach einem sofortigen Verbot von Wahlcomputern in Deutschland, um schweren Schaden von unserer Demokratie abzuwenden.” Danke.

Come baby, rock me, come baby, lock me into the shadows of your heart.
Come baby, teach me, come baby, reach me, let the music start.
I could be dreaming but I keep believing you’re the one I’m livin’ for.
And I will always be emotionally yours.
— Bob Dylan, Emotionally Yours

Clearing Manhattan, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi “has called for the demolition of ‘improperly oriented’ buildings, believing them to be toxic, and includes among them the United Nations and the White House.”

Bad CaRMa, and overdoing meta-programming. A fallacy I noticed for myself, too. And read the Joel link in the comments!

Function Points measure Software size. Function Points measure functionality by objectively measuring functional requirements. Sounds interesting for billing…

perlpacktut, tutorial on pack and unpack. Mostly works for Ruby, too.