Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
26jun2007
The Unporny Valley, PNSFW.
Weeki Wachee Springs is a natural tourist attraction located in Weeki Wachee, Florida, where underwater performances by “mermaids”, women dressed with fins about their legs as well as other fancy outfits, can be viewed in an aquarium-like setting in the spring of the Weeki Wachee River.
The DIY Guide to Becoming a (Real) Cyborg, yikes.
Saw things…saw things…saw things…saw things…
Clearer…clearer…
Once you were in my rearview mirror.
— Pearl Jam, Rearviewmirror
On The Horizon: Ten Things I like about Ruby 1.9, collected by Gregory Brown.
woah…. omg. reflections on mega-viewership, danah boyd feels what I got to know too: “When I post a well-thought out, well-written analysis, I get a few thousands hits and maybe a BoingBoing mention. So far, I’ve received 90K hits for this latest piece, the most problematic of essays I’ve ever shared publicly. Figures.” If you haven’t read it yet, read it now.
Testability Costs Too Much, by Gian Sampson-Wild. “The problem with testability is that even the most reasonable of success criteria can be non-testable.”
Human-to-Human Design, by Sharon Lee at A List Apart. “A good website is built on two basic truths—that the internet is an interactive medium and that the end user is in fact human.”
Constructors Considered Harmful, I really like Gilad Bracha’s recent writings.
tagdb is a small, embeddable tagging database using QDBM as a backing store written by Steve Dekorte. Must try it.
It’s a long road out of here
When you love me like you do
It’s too hard for me to leave you
— Juliette & the Licks, Long Road Out of Here
10 Useless or Even Dangerous First Aid Myths, good to know.
Git for Computer Scientists, is a good quick introduction to git internals for people who are not scared by words like Directed Acyclic Graph.