Pitchfork Feature: Guest List: Best of 2006. Albums of the year by artists
Pitchfork Feature: Guest List: Best of 2006. Albums of the year by artists
SECOND LIFE: A story too good to check - Valleywag. Clay Shirky on his scepticism toward Second Life's hype, with reference to previous failed virtual worlds.
Salon 21st | The dumbing-down of programming. Operating system archaeology
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Wow, a clean html version of SICP with maths examples you can actually read!
Fimoculous.com - misc - Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading. Just like it says in the title.
Erubis. Faster, auto-sanitizing implementation of eRuby, usable with Rails via ActionView::Base::registertemplatehandler.
On having layout — the concept of hasLayout in IE/Win. Details of and fixes for IE hasLayout related CSS bugs
worldofresources.pdf (application/pdf Object). DHH on mapping POST, GET, PUT, DELETE to CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE. Slides from the rubyconf2006 presentation.
David Heinemeier Hansson RailsConf 2006 Keynote Address. DHH on mapping POST, GET, PUT, DELETE to CREATE, READ, UPDATE, DELETE. Video of the rubyconf2006 presentation.
Intel assembler on Mac OS X. Could be handy if I ever get round to getting an Intel macbook
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Free online version of the SICP book at MIT, since I don't seem to have it bookmarked
reddit.com: programming - what's new online. I'd never really gotten into reddit, but it looks like this category at least should be in my set of bookmarks I open every morning.
Ruby Hacking Guide. The nuts and bolts of how the Ruby language is cobbled together
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures. Video lectures from 1986 to accompany the Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs book
Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile. Agile methodologies as snake oil and a look into Google's innards
danwebb.net - RailsConf Presentation Slides and Example Code. More on unobtrusive javascript, this time as it applies to rails
Gallery. Painterly digital illustration from someone who started out doing fan art for Bungie games.
PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things" » Archive » How Japanese style Illustration works. Gez Fry, talking about illustrating digitally and teaching himself how
Apple II madness! | MetaFilter. Apple II versions of Oregon Trail, Ultima IV, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? and lots more. Playable online, IE only though.
Dark Cut. Fun & funny medieval surgery game (I'm guessing it's probably a take off of Trauma Center on the DS)
The Musty Man - Hating America. Not really about hating america so much as it's about: here & there, home & away, civilized & primitive and the grass being always greener.
The pleasure of finding things out - RP Feynman - Google Video. I just finished reading "Don't You Have Time To Think?".
Simon Willison: My ETech JavaScript tutorial. Exhaustive overview of Javascript as she is now wrote, what with better browser support and more tricky usage
OutsideOfSociety - OOS.MOXIECODE.COM. Very nice neat little flash demos and puzzles
5 apps to rescue the distracted | 43 Folders. More apps should have true fullscreen as an anti-distraction device
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