birds. directed by alfred h5n1tchcock.
omfg.
"it has been suggested that $800 to $900 million are lost each Friday the 13th (Roach 2004) as a result of people avoiding travel, wedding plans, moving, and so on."
belief shaping reality, next time in january 2006.
but: if you can pronounce the word, you are cured (skeptic's dictionary).
34 is the magic number.
could xara extreme become the first open-source candidate to fly in photoshop's face? (via langreiter.)
Microsoft, VeriSign and Certificate Revocation.
joshua grossnickle: rss – crossing into the mainstream (pdf).
close but no cigar.
ecmascript for xml (e4x) breaks the syntax check of a common javascript programmer (if not the general language specification at all).
foo..bar is invalid code. period.
foo.@bar is invalid code. period.
foo.( x == "bar" ) is invalid and ugly code. period.
and so it goes on introducing double colons and re-defining curly braces to finally be able to produce perl-code like x.n1::["not-an-identifier"].@id.
as far as i can see it, there would have been no disadvantage to use the "normal" way of implementing methods instead of eagerly inventing a fancy new syntax.
looks like a programmer high on java played havoc with an innocent scripting language. (maybe brendan eich needs the right javascript book, too?)
anyway, my thumbs are pointing down.