Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
25jun2007
Sake is system-wide Rake. It works pretty much like how you’d expect it to work: use it to install then run Rake tasks.
The World Needs More Dialog Boxes Like This, yay yay yay!
Lyon Italique currently features already more than 130 alternates, ligatures and swash characters that give an artistic expression to the text, all of which are automatically replaced through intelligent Opentype routines that also help to avoid most collisions and incorrect usages like a long s at the end of a word, or overlapping swashes. Damn lovely.
I never got to tell you
What I wanted to
And I cry about it now
I never got to tell you
What you meant to me
And I cry about it now
— Juliette & the Licks, I Never Got to Tell You What I Wanted to
Vor 40 Jahren: Was diese Welt braucht, ist Liebe, ist heute nicht anders. Aber wir haben mehr Satelliten.
Products Are People Too, Matt Webb’s talk from reboot 9.0. Recommended.
Google Scalability Conference Trip Report: MapReduce, BigTable, and Other Distributed System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets, notes by Dare Obasanjo.
Steve Yegge ported Rails to JavaScript, WJW.
The Day the Web Goes Silent, “Not a moment of silence, but a full day of silence is planned by US-based webcasters, lots of them, in protest of the Copyright Royalty Board’s increase in royalty rates.”
Do you dream in color?, Mark Dominus wonders whether dreamt hallucinations are real.
If these reefs are islands, “The BBC revisited an amazingly interesting story last week when they explained that Japan is now growing coral reefs in a bid to extend their territorial sovereignty into the Philippine Sea.”
Ja, was ich hier geschrieben habe, macht im Einzelnen überhaupt nicht den Anspruch auf Neuheit; und darum gebe ich auch keine Quellen an, weil es mir gleichgültig ist, ob das was ich gedacht habe, vor mir schon ein anderer gedacht hat. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Rich Programmer Food, Steve Yegge on writing compilers.
Getting Productive with XMLMind, by James Elliott and Marc Loy. Interesting to see the current state of art in technical book publishing.
10 Sales and Marketing Tips I learned from Strippers, I think I saw that before somewhere, but it’s neat.
Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace, by danah boyd.