jonet tag 2005. don't be square. be there. i will.
- 23 may 1934. † 21 august 2005.
related: wendy carlos, isao "in linz (austlia) it beginz" tomita.
i wish i can take you away to zzree zzousand lightyears away. don't be afraid. I'll be next to you.
the onion: evangelical scientists refute gravity with new "intelligent falling" theory. via langreiter.
"that's not flying. that's falling with style." – Woody, from the 1996 movie "Toy Story", regarding Buzz Lightyear.
where hipsters meet in vienna.
future garden, elektro gönner, transporter bar, dondrine (so hip it hurts doesn't even got a web site, yet; but it's said to be located in kirchengasse 20).
by chance i watched some excerpts of a quite disturbing animated movie called Neco z Alenky which is nothing less than a creepy version of carrol's "alice in wonderland".
it's one of the amazing works of jan svankmajer, which is probably very well described with the words of anthony lane ("the new yorker"):
"The movie-going world is split into two unequal camps: those who have never heard of Jan Svankmajer, and those who happen upon his work and know that they have come face to face with genius."
what a day this has been what a rare mood i'm in why it's almost like being in love.
whoa! rhinola rocks! – at least if you have a reliable and up-to-date operating system at hand that lets you easily install ant or the necessary apxs libraries or even more sophisticated stuff like the latest gnu compiler collection in a snap.
furthermore, either some expertise or intuition on how to fix a Makefile is inevitable: i got an "apxs:Error no config variable PREFIX" on make install and thus, simply removed the corresponding -S argument in modgjc/src/Makefile (l. 626).
after that, everything compiled and installed smoothly, and both, modgcj test as well as rhinola's hello world example worked fine.
now i am really curious where this thang will develop to... how performant is it in comparison to helma? will missing helma features be added (as javascript libs) and the result lead to helma version 2.0? or will it become the basis for a more client-focused rails-like re-incarnation? by all means exciting times for server-side javascript.
captcha'd in inaccessibility.
now also orf.at needed to implement captcha image challenges for the sake of dividing bots from users.
this certainly must be a sad, however intelligible and necessary move. because captchas are problematic.
captchas are an accessibility black hole and a poor mousetrap.
jon udell concludes they obviously are better suited for games than for a web-adequate protection from bots and spammers.
they are certainly a real challenge for the smartest ones turning willing users into compliable robots.
look ma, no helma!
but still server-side javascript: mod-gcj/rhinola.