Lyrics appreciation: 詩意 (Shiyi) (lyrics)
Death Of A Troll. (computing culture; newsgroup; Erik Naggum)
Talk on “Concurrency and Language Design” (2008-10) by Anders Hejlsberg and Guy Steele (video interview): http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Charles/Anders-Hejlsberg-and-Guy-Steele-Concurrency-and-Language-Design/
A evaluation of Google-code-prettify: Google-code-prettify Examples. (computing; syntax-coloring)
Now there's a search box for all index pages on my website. e.g. there is a search box on the right side on this page.
Some funny commercials. BMW Commercials
A environmental tragedy: Aral Sea. (photo)
XahLee.org Web Traffic Report 2009-06.
Google Search Dropped Traffic To XahLee.Org (computing, xahlee.org, google search)
Song appreciation: Elfen Lied (Elven Song).
Song appreciation: Self Control by Laura Branigan.
safesex.nl condom ad It shows a stewardess in their typical gestures of pre-flight safety, but demoing the use of condom. Very funny.
perm url: Condom Ad.
Started to write: Emacs and Microsoft Windows Tips.
The interactive geometry application GeoGebra on my site Visual Dictionary of Special Plane Curves has been updated to the latest version, 3.2. For a feature list of GeoGebra 3.2, see: Release Notes GeoGebra 3.2.
Misc tidbits:
Another porn vid site: http://www.xvideos.com/.
Wolfram alpha. Ambitious, but a bit lackluster at the moment.
IE8 is out. See: Browsers 2009.
Some comments on Google Custome Search.
Fascinating: Corrupted Blood incident.
The Corrupted Blood incident was a widely reported virtual plague outbreak and video game glitch found in the Blizzard Entertainment computer game World of Warcraft, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game in the Warcraft series.
See also: Massively multiplayer online role-playing game (aka MMORG). MMORG is pretty much the future of communication. See also A Photographic Tour of Life in Second Life, probably the most massive of them all, and most relevant as a model of future communication and MMORG in human animal society.
Why Must Software Be Rewritten For Multi-Core Processors? (computing)
Installing Cygwin Tutorial. (computing, unix)
The Complexity And Tedium of Software Engineering. (computing)
Updated, 2 music videos on American culture. The Stereotypical American.
Some news on the Free state project. Quote:
As of April 17, 2009, there are 9235 members, of which 701 have already moved to New Hampshire.[1] The movement achieved a victory in 2006 when one of its members, Joel Winters, was elected to the New Hampshire state legislature. Winters ran as a Democrat.[2] In 2008, six Free Staters were elected to the N.H. House, including Winters, according to group members.
Discovered Hunspell. (roughly, spell checker evolution in the unix world is: ispell ⇒ aspell ⇒ hunspell.)
Google previewed their Google Wave, see video here: http://wave.google.com/. It is fanstastic. You learned, that it is entirely written with Google Web Toolkit, which is a Java framework. You write GUI app in Java, and the system compiles to cross-browser ajax technology based webpages with html and JavaScript (e.g. Gmail). The advantage is that you don't have to worry about browser compatibilities, and difficult problems of coding fancy interfaces such as draggable widgets, which otherwise would take years of web app dev experience to code and design. This is really a major achievement, and a fantastic tool. I really want to use it, but, however, Java? In today's langs, such as JavaScript, Python, PHP, Mathematica, one line is some 50 lines of Java. Why fucking Java? Java? The other major problem for me to adopt, is that the toolkit does not produce valid html. If you check code.google.com/, mail.google.com/, blogger.com/, none are valid html. The html on my website must be valid html. (See HTML Correctness and Validators)