Category Archives: neep-neep

In Praise of Evolvable Systems: Why something as poorly designed as the Web became The Next Big Thing, and what that means for the future. (Thanks to Joel Levin for the link)

Slashdot | Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and . . . If you look at all the RFCs at dev.perl.org, you’ll find that most of the feature requests are bogus on some level or other because they tend to suggest bandaid solutions. … Continue reading →

Programming tool makes bugs sing. (Link from GirlHacker.) Interesting if it works. There’s a similar idea in Bruce Sterling’s early novel Schismatrix: the control panel of the ship Red Consensus makes a sonic pattern designed to fade from conscious perception … Continue reading →

Teresa Nielsen Hayden greets me with: Hi there. Looks like you’re using barfy ol’ Netscape 4.x. I don’t want to seem unkind or rejecting, but it’s a real pain to design a web page that’ll work with Netscape 4. . . . … Continue reading →

Single-atom bits. (Link from Eric Hall.)

ObsoleteHosting.com: State-of-the-art drive units insure your pages get served eventually. We have staff on hand in our NOC 8 hours a day to flip tapes. If your visitors want to see a page that’s on side 2, just give us … Continue reading →