04 Jan 2006

djangoproject.com   21:22

HOWTO: Be more productive

Aaron Swartz looks at the productivity problem, how not to proscratinate, etc. This is just what I needed right now.

aaronsw.com   23:15

06 Jan 2006

Flight 93 (movie about 9/11) Trailor

Nice to see hollywood capitalizing on national crisis so soon. Bastards.

movies.apple.com   01:19

11 Jan 2006

xs4all.nl   05:17

The (Business-Driven) Enterprise Architect

Excellent description of where Enterprise Architects should be moving and why…

elementallinks.typepad.com   07:37

12 Jan 2006

Nikola Tesla (Wikipedia)

Tesla’s wikipedia entry. I’ve been wanting to read up on him for some time now.

en.wikipedia.org   22:40

The Impeachment of George W. Bush

When you see everything stacked up like this, it’s a bit harder to call the impeachment crowd “crazy”.

thenation.com   23:35

Introducing the MacBook Pro

Holy crap I can’t wait to get my hands on this.

youtube.com   23:37

15 Jan 2006

dack.com   02:01

18 Jan 2006

Sriram Krishnan : Lisp is sin

All roads lead to Lisp…. eventually… we think. :)

blogs.msdn.com   03:04

19 Jan 2006

Chuck Norris Facts

“Guns don’t kill people, Chuck Norris kills people” :)

chucknorrisfacts.com   02:54

Vatican Paper Hits 'Intelligent Design'

More ID bashing from the Catholic HQ.

cbsnews.com   07:13

Grammer and Writing Tip Archive

Can’t find enough of these…

getitwriteonline.com   07:58

trac-hacks.org   07:59

How Conservatives Argue: A Case Study

Bwwwahahahahahahahahhaa..

jamesb3.dailykos.com   08:51

22 Jan 2006

Google Campus Video Tour

ABC’s Bob Woodruff got a camera in there somehow..

abcnews.go.com   08:12

technetcast.ddj.com   08:35

FireBug

Firefox extension with some promising script debugging/spying features.

addons.mozilla.org   08:52

Thermite burning a hole in a car

Holy crap! Where can I get some thermite?

video.google.com   09:42

Comic Sans was a mistake

What a surprise!

connare.com   10:12

"Customary Historic Use" to replace "Fair Use"

Big Content would like to outlaw things no one has even thought of yet

arstechnica.com   10:18

25 Jan 2006

fastr - a flickr game

best game ever…

randomchaos.com   19:19

28 Jan 2006

Senators figure out the Broadcast Flag, curse it as an abomination!

or, “How the iPod destroyed the Broadcast Flag” :)

boingboing.net   10:34

Quotations for Learning Programming

“I have enjoyed reading (and writing), collecting, and pondering the following quotations, which I think are all relevant to teaching and learning programming.”

cs.cmu.edu   14:58

04 Feb 2006

Bill Burcham’s memeRocket

Go Bill! ‘Bout time you got a blog.

memerocket.com   06:15

artima.com   06:38

Everything Your Professor Failed to Tell You About Functional Programming

“This leads to my point: In computer science, nothing [still] makes sense [even] if you violate the identity principle.” :)

linuxjournal.com   13:48

thebigview.com   13:56

05 Feb 2006

Agreed Framework

Wikipedia entry on the “Agreed Framework” for nuclear non-proliferation reached between the US and North Korea in 1994. Understanding how we backed out of this agreement is key to understanding the current issues w/ N. Korea.

en.wikipedia.org   07:09

16 Feb 2006

xent.com   12:53

23 Feb 2006

Male nipples can keep babies calm

Serendipitously appeared during a google images search for “newpaper”.

gallery.hd.org   09:43

24 Feb 2006

gladwell.com

Malcom Gladwell’s blog :)

gladwell.typepad.com   10:18

oreillynet.com   12:06

Yak Shaving

I do this all the time…

projects.csail.mit.edu   12:10

The Amen Break

History and potential future of. (via Paul Hammond and Eric Meyers)

nkhstudio.com   13:09

25 Feb 2006

Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?

It’s impossible for diffuse flames (jet fuel, paper, office stuff) to reach temperatures needed to melt steel. This guy thinks there were thermite charges in the buildings.

physics.byu.edu   00:50

/atom-tools/README

Decent looking ruby library that implements a fair bit of an Atom Publishing Protocol client.

rubyforge.org   09:16

26 Feb 2006

The Most Popular Myths in Science Results

Bullshit: “It takes seven years to digest gum”

livescience.com   21:56

28 Feb 2006

What (will be) new in Rails 1.1

I’m going to have to jump all over this.

scottraymond.net   00:43

A Block Costume

why on rebinding blocks to specific objects.. I had to do the same thing a little while ago. Using instance_method seemed like a hack but if it’s good enough for why, it’s good enough for me.

redhanded.hobix.com   00:47

Rails RJS Templates

I’m starting to “get it” now… Makes a ton of sense.

codyfauser.com   00:50

kb.mozillazine.org   11:54

07 Mar 2006

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] OSX and capital letters issue?

How to get rdiff-backup to not do that.

lists.gnu.org   13:31

13 Mar 2006

discuss.joelonsoftware.com   08:04

Too many words about The Matrix

this is insane

denbeste.nu   11:42

Tour de Babel

the best shit ever

cabochon.com   11:49

java sucks

let’s go back to ‘97

jwz.org   12:03

14 Mar 2006

Microsoft Vista and .NET

They ripped a bunch of .NET code out of Vista, replacing it with C. Interesting.

grimes.demon.co.uk   21:11

15 Mar 2006

Coding Tool Is a Text Adventure

But instead of ducking grues and collecting zorkmids, you’re interacting with whatever program code you’re working on, as well as the data and hardware devices that it uses. “It treats the web and APIs as just more objects and places, and is a platform fo

wired.com   08:37

17 Mar 2006

Math For Programmers

Hell yes Steve Yegge will be teaching me mathematics. I haven’t been this excited about a new blog in a while to be honest.

steve-yegge.blogspot.com   06:27

Reclaiming the Oxford English Dictionary for the public

“That means that every page I scan, out of the fifteen thousand or so, produces about $19.5 million of value for the world; that’s about $9.8 billion an hour. My hourly wages have usually been less.”

lists.canonical.org   17:06

26 Mar 2006

Comment of the Day. On "Evidence of the Missing Link Found?"

Evolution is at work. We leave them to themselves and we’ll stick to ourselves, and in another 250,000 years we can eat them as either game or domesticated farm animals. God knows we don’t have to selectively breed them for size.

science.slashdot.org   07:11

01 Apr 2006

Everyone Hates the Christians

“When I became a convert from Judaism to born-again Christianity after watching The Chronicles of Narnia, I thought things were going to get a lot easier for me…”

jonswift.blogspot.com   19:29

06 Apr 2006

It's Not Software

I have no idea how I missed this. Great Yegge piece from October 2004.

cabochon.com   09:17

07 Apr 2006

How to pull an all-nighter

Fairly acurate prescription…

christianmontoya.com   19:39

Help Win My Bet

Help a brother out: “if I could make a website to get 2,000,000 hits, she would have a menage a trois (that’s a threesome to you non french-speakers)”

helpwinmybet.com   21:42

16 Apr 2006

Science vs. Norse Mythology

Norse Mythology soooo kicks science’s ass in this issue…

thepaincomics.com   14:12

Lisp is Not an Acceptable Lisp

So I’m considering automating my del.icio.us to just automatically add links with “statistically infrequent” words as tags to all Steve Yegge’s posts…

steve-yegge.blogspot.com   14:26

xenu.net   16:24

17 Apr 2006

Feynman Interview: The pleasure of finding things out

Nice little Feynman short on google video. Feynman talking, Feynman painting, Feynman being the complete bad-ass that only Feynman can be… I can’t get enough of him.

video.google.com   07:42

16 Aug 2006

On the implausibility of the explosives plot.

I’ll have to come out of hiding to bookmark this one. Too good to not make my wow list.

interesting-people.org   09:13

02 Sep 2006

Proof that 0.999... equals 1

It boggles the mind…

en.wikipedia.org   11:35

The Overton window.

Visible in accelerated form on Fox News' recent “coverage” of whether bombing the piss out of Iran would be a good idea right now. Go Think Tanks!

swordscrossed.org   12:18

03 Sep 2006

I Hate This Place

This place is everything a weblog should not be.

tomayko.com   18:50

05 Sep 2006

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

This site is really starting to come along now. The latest addition on how to manage vertical spacing in intervals is something I’ve been wondering about for a while now.

webtypography.net   08:58

06 Sep 2006

A fundamental way newspaper sites need to change

Outstanding piece. Adrian ought to write more often. Microformats.org could really use someone with Adrian’s background to squash some of the “why?” type questions.

holovaty.com   09:28

07 Sep 2006

Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky debate The Lord of the Rings

Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn & Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002, for The Fellowship of the Ring Platinum Series Extended Edition DVD, Part One

mcsweeneys.net   00:35

The Worst Analogies Ever Written in a High School Essay

“The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and ‘Jeopardy’ comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30.”

c4vct.com   06:07

How to make multiple SSH connections to the same host faster

All you have to do is add a few lines to ~/ssh/config.

revsys.com   06:32

Web Based Site Monitoring Tools

Some praise for Site24x7.

tomayko.com   08:42

analogies.google.com

Need an analogy but don’t have the time to actually think of one your self?

tomayko.com   10:49

Maverick

Cedar Point announces their new coaster for 2007. It looks like the first real attempt at building something serious since the Millenium.

maverick.cedarpoint.com   22:09

Goldmine of Geeky Your Momma Jokes

Your mom is like HTML, a tiny and a whole lot a .

72.14.203.104   22:50

08 Sep 2006

Grue (monster)

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

en.wikipedia.org   08:38

09 Sep 2006

But Martin, Enterprise Software IS Boring

A well thought out and respectful response to Fowler’s argument that business software doesn’t have to be boring (RailsConf 2006). Good points abound but I have to disagree with the premise.

ravimohan.blogspot.com   05:15

Top.app

MacOS X: How to turn textmode tools into first class applications. Mutt.app, Vim.app, Irssi.app, Top.app, etc.

tomayko.com   21:44

10 Sep 2006

Best 500 Page Eva!

Reddit Broke (Sorry).

tomayko.com   20:20

11 Sep 2006

Here's a Nickel, Kid

The Dilbert cartoon referenced in Neil Stephenson’s “In The Beginning was The Command Line”

tomayko.com   03:49

Keith Olberman 2006-09-11 - Special Comment

We should all be as pissed off right now. 9/11 is a disease.

crooksandliars.com   16:29

12 Sep 2006

Gosling v. Greenspun

On the relationship between the “Black Hole Theory of Design” and “Greenspun’s tenth Rule of Programming”.

tomayko.com   04:41

14 Sep 2006

Man Pops Eye-Balls Out Really Far

“I can pop my eyes out four centimetres each, it is a gift from God, I feel blessed.”

ananova.com   09:38

15 Sep 2006

Bruce Schneier on War On Terror

Bruce nails it. (Crypto-Gram/2006-09-15)

schneier.com   06:32

18 Sep 2006

halfanhour.blogspot.com   15:51

20 Sep 2006

360 in a circle, 60 minutes and 60 seconds… What is so special about 60?

Blame the Babylonians – they used the Sexagesimal system. Don’t get excited – it means that instead of using base 10 (as we do) they used base 60.

shaunmccarthy.wordpress.com   17:30

cs.utexas.edu   17:36

21 Sep 2006

UNIX productivity tips

Best UNIX productivity article I’ve read in a long while.

www-128.ibm.com   05:39

30 Sep 2006

Bogosort

“The archetypal perversely awful algorithm”

en.wikipedia.org   06:09

01 Oct 2006

sprott.physics.wisc.edu   21:08

04 Oct 2006

Is Olbermann on Thin Ice?

It would be massively troubling if anything happened to Olbermann. He’s the only even modestly sane person coming out of the TV at this point.

commondreams.org   03:41

07 Oct 2006

A Letter From Iraq

Intense.

time.com   03:41

08 Oct 2006

The only Soquid you eat with a Fpoon

Fpoon, fpoon, fpoon, fpoon, fpoon.

dhadm.com   11:22

09 Oct 2006

Shell script awk csv file

“I could whip you up something in Java that would take 2 minutes to design, 30 minutes to implement, a day to write the deployment descriptor for, and 3 months to get sign off from the app support people at the client site _b”

nzgames.com   15:33

10 Oct 2006

gotAPI.com

The best attempt I’ve seen at splicing multiple API references together. This uses the external documentation but provides indexing and browsing features.

gotapi.com   08:31

Tomayko - Google Code Search

Ego surfing on code.google.com :)

google.com   08:42

Sympathetic Hippo

Holy shit!

youtube.com   09:23

17 Oct 2006

Free software is a weak mode of production | Free Software Magazine

“The success of GNU/Linux and other free software projects is annoying.”

freesoftwaremagazine.com   02:27

21 Oct 2006

How We Wish Our SOs Really Talked

“Why would my sister want to borrow someone else’s broom, you sexist ass? My sister is a lawyer for the friggin' ACLU! before tossing her Napa Valley cab in the poor guy’s face.”

cnunciato.blogspot.com   04:31

After Pat's Birthday

Editor’s note: Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat in 2002, and they served together in Iraq and Afghanistan. Pat was killed in Afghanistan on April 22, 2004. Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document.

veteransforamerica.org   04:57

Complexity vs. Complication

A nice go at classifying different types of code transition.

chalain.livejournal.com   13:27

Incongruent State

More good stuff from Chalain. This time the topic is classes that end in “er”.

chalain.livejournal.com   13:31

War Signals?

This is the most thorough of five reports I’ve just read, each speculating that a US attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities before the Nov. elections may be likely: “I think the plan’s been picked: bomb the nuclear sites in Iran,” says Gardiner. “It’s a terr

thenation.com   20:47

22 Oct 2006

Taking Back the House State by State - OHIO!

Kos / Oct 17 wrap up on Ohio congressional districts. I’m in the 13th, btw.

dailykos.com   16:37

Safety Not Guaranteed

This is quite possibly the funniest thing I have ever read in my entire life.

timetraveler.ytmnd.com   17:42

23 Oct 2006

I plan to travel back to the 1400s. Any advice on how to recreate the Internet?

“You know what I love about Reddit? Someone can ask a question like this, and not one comment points out how completely ridiculous it is.”

reddit.com   00:56

26 Oct 2006

Blogging: Bad for coding

and vice versa.

nutrun.com   14:56

27 Oct 2006

Radio Lab: Emergence (February 18, 2005)

This is my favorite episode of WNYC’s RadioLab and maybe my favorite piece of radio, period. The segment, “The Invisible Hand” is outstanding. The show is now in podcast and the last five eps are available in mp3. “Emergence” is only available as a RealAu

wnyc.org   04:07

Vox Populi

A paper by Sir Francis Galton first published in the March 7, 1907 issue of the scientific journal, NATURE. The paper provides what appears to be the first solid explanation for why Google’s ranking algorithm, not to mention the form of government we’ve come to know as “democracy”, are so capable.

tomayko.com   09:36

07 Nov 2006

J2EE SUCKS HUGE DONKEY BALLS.

“Then they spend one day debugging shit that’s gone wrong with Eclipse (or its mangling of the CVS repository, or some ant dependency problem, or)… And meanwhile they whine that 256 megs of RAM isn’t enough to edit a fucking text file (and do NOTHING el

developers.slashdot.org   01:50

09 Nov 2006

thehumorarchives.com   08:17

11 Nov 2006

XML Templating in Python Evolves

A brief history of the Kid templating language and an endorsement for the next generation of XML-based templating: Genshi.

tomayko.com   13:58

12 Nov 2006

CSS-Based Forms: Modern Solutions

Big list of resources on CSS based forms.

smashingmagazine.com   21:20

13 Nov 2006

Shackled But Free

My best attempt at saying something nice about Sun’s GPLing of Java, even if a bit grudgingly.

tomayko.com   05:01

14 Nov 2006

ViewSourceClan

Somebody should create a feed that posts a single random entry per day from the Atom Wiki.

intertwingly.net   15:55

Mike's Michigan Jokes

Q: What do you call a Michigan cheerleader with two brain cells? A: Pregnant

buckeye01.spaces.live.com   16:29

The Beatles on the Ukulele

The kid is sick.

maniacworld.com   16:59

15 Nov 2006

Office Space (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)

I give Aaron two weeks (tops!) at Wired before he’s off to something bigger and better.

aaronsw.com   08:37

The S stands for Simple

Wonderfully done.

wanderingbarque.com   15:42

16 Nov 2006

The REST Dialogues

The REST / Web Arch. crowd falls back to its secret weapon in the fight for mankind: The Dialogue.

tomayko.com   16:59

18 Nov 2006

web.mit.edu   09:41

19 Nov 2006

Java in The Land of Make Believe

What the GPL could have accomplished (and may well still).

tomayko.com   16:45

sweetjunipermeta.blogspot.com   16:46

27 Nov 2006

tech decentral » a RedMonk blog about web technology by Anne Zelenka

Go RedMonk. This is a major pick-up, IMO.

redmonk.com   05:29

? will save us, or, Applicative trumps imperative in the large

Aristotle just destroys that recent reg article that suggests we need to shit-can 20 years of engineering masterpiece for distributed objects. Nice piece!

plasmasturm.org   09:53

28 Nov 2006

Head for the hills - the new survivalists

“So what do you do when you’re pretty sure that the end of the world as we know it is coming soon, but your girlfriend doesn’t believe you?” (via skvidal)

energybulletin.net   01:46

GPL Java: An interview with lead Kaffe developer Dalibor Topic

Good perspective on Java going GPL.

cuttingfree.blogsome.com   06:05

Face-mounted Lucid Dreaming Mask

If someone puts one of these together I’ll buy it for $50 USD.

cre.ations.net   08:15

Ruby for the Web! (irb running in an applet via JRuby)

I take back everything bad I’ve ever said about Java Applets ;)

headius.com   08:44

Shut the fuck up and write some code???

I have no idea … but I’m digging the Kid and TG references ;)

d.hatena.ne.jp   14:20

JotSpot Google Merger shows it's ugly side

Ouch! That’s not only evil, it’s dumb. gasp

sv411.blogspot.com   14:40

The most popular url on del.icio.us?

I don’t know but it’s definitely the coolest.

del.icio.us   14:56

30 Nov 2006

Programming Languages are like Women

This guy gets around…

just-humour.blogspot.com   05:59

04 Dec 2006

Intelligent Abstractions

Sometimes I think Aaron’s brain is my brain in the future. I’ve had all of these same ideas rattle around in my brain before but they never seem to line up so neatly for me. It bugs me a little.

aaronsw.com   08:49

informationarchitects.jp   08:54

The Myth That “Eight Battleships Were Sunk” At Pearl Harbor

It turns out Pearl Harbor was a pretty massive blunder for the Japanese. Fascinating.

hnn.us   09:10

05 Dec 2006

Stefan Tilkov on SOA

Extremely clear and right take on REST, WS, and other techniques for distributing systems.

infoq.com   08:56

PostgreSQL 8.2 Release Notes

We moved from Windows / MS SQL Server to FreeBSD / PostgreSQL about 5 months ago and I’ve been nothing but completely happy with the transition. 8.2 is a pretty nice upgrade if you’re doing data warehousing style stuff.

postgresql.org   18:22

10 Reasons Why Django kicks Ruby on Rails’ collective ass.

Wherein the author lists 8 reasons (maybe 3 of which are approaching objective or even valid) and also spells Adrian’s name wrong: “Adrian Zolovaty”. Ruby/Python flame-bait is exactly what we need.

predius.org   18:35

webpagesthatsuck.com   19:14

06 Dec 2006

UniveRSS - a 3D Vista RSS reader

Prediction: Microsoft will use 3D nonsensically and egregiously for the next two years. 3D notepad!

microsoft.com   06:55

Where Work Is a Religion, Work Burnout Is Its Crisis of Faith

Nice article on burnout, which I have to admit I’ve been struggling with on and off for the past six months or so :–(

nymag.com   18:56

07 Dec 2006

Good Math, Bad Math : Nullity - the Nonsense Number

That’s what I’m saying. As soon as I saw this guy talking about auto-pilot software crashing a plane due to division by zero, I thought: 5 / 0 rescue nil wtf are you talking about? We’ve had exception handling, conditionals, and NaN forever.

scienceblogs.com   05:24

Forn Policy

Bwwwwaaaaahhhahahaaaaahhaa.

guardian.co.uk   07:42

08 Dec 2006

KISS (or why MS CS students have a bad time in interviews ...)

“Yet for some strange reason, the MScCS students seem to value fancy algorithms over working algorithms.”

iosn.net   00:42

Microsoft versus FOSS Configuration Management

“Dependency management is probably the most important contribution of open source to software engineering.” — I don’t know about that but it’s definitely up there. It’s mind boggling that MS hasn’t developed some form of package management.

cogito.blogthing.com   00:50

A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft

I guess this could be good thing. Good people have a tendency of being taken advantage of in ways they wouldn’t expect at MS though so I have to give the whole deal a respectful thumbs-down.

weblog.infoworld.com   07:08

Firebug 1.0 Beta Screencast

Holy… This is big. Huge big.

soylentfoo.jnewland.com   12:37

09 Dec 2006

Socio-political and Commercial Motivations for WS-*

Nice bit of history showing the chain of events that led to WS-*.

atownley.org   12:16

10 Dec 2006

kuler

Handsome Flash based color mixing tool and color theme sharing site.

kuler.adobe.com   04:09

11 Dec 2006

The Problem of Open Source in the Microsoft World

I’m sorry but it is just baffling to me how developers and cough evangelists can put up with this kind of behavior as being the sort-of default mode of operation at MS. The company needs to consider massive sweeping changes in the way they treat develop

ayende.com   07:56

Dynamic Language Support on the JVM

Danny Coward Q/A on invokedynamic and “hot swapping” (method replacement). Pretty good piece until the end where we enter into some scary Java-static-typing-is-good-because-it-let’s-you-publish-APIs non-sense.

artima.com   09:01

12 Dec 2006

InfoQ: Interview: Pete Lacey Criticizes Web Services

Wow, I’m flattered blush Turns out I do know something about SOA after all. Speaking of “Motherhood and Apple Pie” – I quite liked that essay but it was one of those that never really took off.

infoq.com   02:42

Surfing Lake Erie is basically disgusting

Cleveland is so hard-core. Sometimes I really do love this place.

nytimes.com   15:50

14 Dec 2006

Why do so many reddit users hate java? (reddit.com)

“Java’s solution to the problem of C++ allowing you to blow your foot off was to chop off your legs.”

programming.reddit.com   13:14

15 Dec 2006

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Simon rebuilds his weblog with Django.

simonwillison.net   09:47

19 Dec 2006

Leo Laporte hates the Zune! (video)

I need to get back into following free culture. The anti-DRM sentiment is unprecedented.

youtube.com   13:55

22 Dec 2006

Parallels Makes IE Testing Suck Less, Melts Power Cord

A look at the new Coherence Mode feature in Parallels desktop.

tomayko.com   21:13

23 Dec 2006

Condorcet's jury theorem

Interesting corollary to Vox Populi. (Via Aristotle Pegaltzis)

en.wikipedia.org   05:06

Cocoa Remote Desktop

A Cocoa port of rdesktop. Universal Binary, multiple concurrent sessions, no X11 makes it the best RDP client for Mac on paper.

cord.sourceforge.net   05:24

SeamlessRDP

Seamless window support for rdesktop (and perhaps Cocoa Remote Desktop). Similar to Parallel’s Coherence Mode for RDP.

cendio.com   05:27

24 Dec 2006

Five Things You Don't Know About Me

Another casualty in the war against blog games.

tomayko.com   04:35

26 Dec 2006

Programmer Hierarchy

Ranks programmers by who they consider themselves superior to. Comedy.

hermann-uwe.de   05:44

27 Dec 2006

Oh Dear Lord! BEEEES!

“OH DEAR LORD ITS SO BEAUTIFUL. I AM SO PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN RIGHT NOW.”

honda-tech.com   08:11

National Review's Best and Worst of Times

Saying the US is divided is an understatement – the country exists simultaneously in two parallel worlds and is connected only by a small machine that shoots newspapers clippings back and forth. The National Review exists in the other one.

article.nationalreview.com   09:56

How To Get Started On Anything (Using Coffee)

OMFG this explains my whole life.

gradschoolstory.com   15:50

29 Dec 2006

2006: The year the Free Software Foundation reached out to the community

Interesting look at how the FSF is picking up a more activist role with tech. politics and policy. Mentions the GPL v3 process, BadVista.org, and the anti-DRM site, Defective By Design.

linux.com   16:17

Whatever Happened To The Zune?

“I have yet to find a women who wants to be squirted with a Zune. I’ve stopped asking.”

medialoper.com   17:55

The Pending Ruby/Java Co-op

A prediction piece on the possibility of a Ruby backed coup d'état on the JVM and what that might mean to the pragmatic web developer.

tomayko.com   17:56

tomayko.com   21:57

31 Dec 2006

Maruku: a Markdown interpreter written in Ruby

This looks promising: handles all of Markdown proper plus various extensions.

maruku.rubyforge.org   06:02

The Role of Resources in REST

“Each resource demarcates a subset of an application’s state, and becomes a handle by which other applications can interact with that state.”

soundadvice.id.au   06:05