The universe is a string-net liquid - about Herbertsmithite and noodle soups. Fascinating.
Linkblog - 11.4.2007 - 24.4.2007
Delibar - interesting del.icio.us client that lives in the menu bar.
delimport - Allow Spotlight to also run over del.icio.us bookmarks.
ETOS Compiler - compiles Erlang source to Scheme (Gambit-C).
Greg Haerr's Nano-X Window System Page (previously Microwindows) - minimal windowing system for small hardware. APIs based on X and Win32 (two APIs).
Last night's performance of INVINCIBLE SUMMER was disrupted when eighty seven members of a Christian group walked out of the show en masse, and chose to physically attack my work by pouring water on and destroying the original of the show outline.
QuirksMode - for all your browser quirks - Collection of information about browser differences and ways to circumvent them.
Spoon - interesting approach: to create a system based on Squeak with a minimal object system and dynamic loading of additional classes/objects/methods on demand.
TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac - could be quite interesting, a book about TextMate.
the messing link - home of a delicious widget - and another del.icio.us client that lives in the Dashboard and displays a tag cloud.
xmonad 0.1 - X11 window manager written in Haskell with an interesting approach to automatic window layout. Windows do not overlap.
Free Smalltalk Books - as PDFs
Union will den "Schäuble-Katalog" in allen Punkten durchsetzen - allegedly to adjust the legal situation to the threat situation. However, the threat situation has not changed at all, why does something need to be adjusted?
UseTheSource / Published Code Snippets - social source snippet site.
Vista Smalltalk Wiki - I had already seen this before, but there's a reason for the repetition: I only noticed today that Vista Smalltalk is not just a Smalltalk in Flash (ActionScript), but that it contains its own Lisp layer on which it is based. So a Smalltalk in Lisp in ActionScript ...
Blacksburg: Shooter sent manifesto to sender - was voluntarily in psychiatric care (could still buy weapons), was suicidal, wrote violent plays. But first, all possible "experts" have jumped in again and demanded a ban on violent games.
Erlang Cookbook - another cookbook site for Erlang. Nice for first impressions of the language.
NPR : Giant Bats Snatch Birds from Night Sky - Killer bat attack.
Interior Minister Schäuble wants to overturn the principle of presumption of innocence - Wheelchair Rambo in full swing. 24 in the Bundestag. Say goodbye to the rule of law. Particularly cute: Those who characterize his plans for constitutional amendments as an attack on the constitution would be defaming him: "Those who claim the opposite are playing a vile game with me." - ah, so it's about him? And not about preserving what our constitution guarantees us?
Court confirms liability of the Admin-C - good, because the sham entries that are taking place there are highly absurd. And that a lawyer wants to talk his way out of it is quite amusing (one would have expected a lawyer to have a better understanding of the situation).
Kamelia - interesting concept: component programming in Python. Components are operated in parallel via threads and communicate via a simple pipe interface. Similar to the Unix shell, but for high-level objects and within a programming language.
PragDave: Adding Concurrency to Our Erlang Program - second round. Not really practical code - the application can overload the Amazon Webservice and block your own key - but nice as a demo of how to convert sequential code into parallel. Where the hint about pmap as an alternative is not entirely unimportant ...
QuickCheck: An Automatic Testing Tool for Haskell - an interesting approach to automatic testing. The properties of functions are stored directly in the code and the test does not simply test predefined test cases, but runs through the property definitions with randomly generated values.
(The Scheme Way): Erlang or Gambit-C/Termite? A practitioner's perspective - Erlang wins the comparison. Some good points - especially Erlang's infrastructure is simply better and more mature.
"What the fuck is informationelle Selbstbestimmung!?” - PDF from the ASTA of FH Münster.
Wings3D - is written in Erlang. Here is the evidence as a link to the source repository. I didn't know that before - a 3D modeler, written in a functional language.
ChronoSync - file synchronizer, can be used for backup or synchronization of multiple computers. Similar to SuperDuper, but more focused on data synchronization than backup.
CouchDb Project Website - hmm. I haven't seen that before. Replicating, document-oriented database. REST API.
current work - large numbers illustrated as art.
History of the tilde - everything you never wanted to know about the tilde and therefore never thought to ask.
HTML5, XHTML2, and the Future of the Web - will naturally be ignored by all the XML proponents again. But it remains a fact: the future of the web will be dominated by HTML for a long time, not by XHTML. And no, delivering broken XHTML with incorrect headers is not a solution, but a problem ...
PragDave: A First Erlang Program - Accessing Amazon Webservices with Erlang. Basic tutorial, expects nothing complex.
Translation From PR-Speak to English of Selected Portions of Rails Developer David Heinemeier Hansson’s Response to Alex Payne’s Interview - Mark Pilgrim (top advocate from the Python camp, often stylistically terrible) translates David Heinemeier Hanson (top advocate from the Rails camp, often stylistically terrible) into English - John Gruber Style (who once did this with Macrovision regarding DRM statements)
Why you should be using HTML 4.01 instead of XHTML - more on XHTML vs. HTML
Apple - Downloads - Mac OS X - Automator Actions - see what's listed there.
automator actions - and even more of it.
Automator World - all about the Automator.
Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes - tons of scripts around iTunes
Metalua - a macro extension for Lua, similar to Common Lisp. Lua is becoming more and more interesting.
USB-To-Ethernet Adaptors for Mac OS X - could be useful to turn a Mac Mini into a firewall, for example.
Write Your Own Automator Actions - as the name suggests: how to write your own Automator Actions.
Google buys DoubleClick - and how does that fit with "don't be evil"? DoubleClick is indeed the epitome of data snooping in the online advertising market.
Speakeasy - Speed Test - well done, easy to test and provides useful data.
Vinton Cerf thinks about an Internet restart - well, whether replacing an ad-hoc network with research software provides the right solution? The success of the Internet was not exactly due to its long planning and extensive research, but rather to the "let's try and see what happens" ideology.
5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne - interesting comments on Ruby on Rails under high pressure. Twitter had massive performance issues and Alex gives insights into the problems caused by Rails.
Door to Door Atheists - Australian filmmaker John Safran is so fed up with mormons ringing his doorbell early in the morning that he flies to Salt Lake City, Utah and tries to convert Mormons to atheism. Needless to say, the locals were not pleased.
Police should be able to automatically access digital passport photos - strange, I can still remember that this type of use was vehemently denied when it was raised by critics.
senduit - simple web interface to distribute large files via URLs. The retention time on the server is determined by the uploader. As simple as Google.
Hacker rip new hole in AACS encryption - hah. Bad luck, film industry. Funny, I remember exactly this attack scenario from the discussion of the DRM stuff for movies. Maybe the film industry will realize that DRM is a completely stupid idea and at best annoys honest buyers.