published on 30.12.2006 22:01.
bleep.com has a good selection of electro and other not-so-mainstream music (some of the many labels: eskimo, warp, trapez, k7, 4ad, rough trade). it almost seems as if they had made a deal with iTunes – take over where iTunes ends. although iTunes today offers a much wider range of music than it used to: i found a Depeche Mode cover by Johnny Cash (Personal Jesus), a couple of Superpitcher tracks/remixes, and some great House/Soul/DnB/BigBeat(?) tracks by Logistics – like Call me Back. long live the long tail. :-)
so let’s listen to some music! (you can listen to the full song, just press play after the song fades out or click anywhere in the soundwave.)
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published on 23.12.2006 17:17.
found in this friday’s international herald tribune.
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published on 13.12.2006 17:12.
find all files older than 60 days:
find /some/dir -atime +60
in combination with xargs this is very useful for removing old rails sessions:
find /u/apps/my_app/current/tmp/sessions/ -atime +60 | xargs rm
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published on 12.12.2006 20:28.
check out pawnsense. total protection against hack attempts from one of the world’s most reckless and dangerous type of terrorists. you know, those fluffy ones.
(another shameless theft from projectionist; just too good.)
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published on 12.12.2006 14:09.
»Ruby’s the only language I’ve ever used that feels like it was designed by a programmer, and not by a hardware engineer (Java, C, C++), an academic theorist (Lisp, Haskell, OCaml), or an editor of PC World (Python).«
via the project.ioni.sts
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published on 03.12.2006 17:18.
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published on 22.11.2006 23:57.
an excellent post by Damien Katz. not really fresh, but really worth a read.
the first sign also brings to mind a favorite quote of mine:
«A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is
not worth knowing.»
— Alan Perlis
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published on 18.11.2006 16:52.
Wurde auch Zeit, daß sich jemand des deutschen Obstes annimmt! Zu Eurer Information hier ein Auszug aus dem Weltnetzangebot der Initiative:
- Keine Überfremdung des deutschen Obstbestandes mehr!
- Südfrüchte raus!
- Weg mit faulem Fallobst!
Via: captainbums bei Flickr
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published on 22.10.2006 18:12.
»We asked a high-end fashion photographer to make her look as beautiful as possible for a cover/billboard (normal advertising request). I asked the retoucher to save his progress in files/layers, and that’s what was used to create the animation. It’s 100% real. Retouching took 4 full days. Make-up, lighting, and shooting took about 4 to 5 hours.«
—Tim Piper
watch it on youtube.
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