…my Unitarian Jihad name fits my centrist sensibilties quite well: it’s Brother Broadsword of Moderation.
You can get your own at the Unitarian Jihad Name Generator. Like any religion, there’s an original and reformed version.
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I was looking for an excuse to post a Red Hot Chili Peppers pic.
Business 2.0’s article, The Great Giveaway,
takes a look at the tactic being used by Amazon, eBay and Google:
giving developers access to their databases — for free. Such an idea
would be unthinkable a little while ago, but by following Clay Shirky’s
maxim of what makes workable P2P (“Centralize what makes you money and
distribute what costs you money”) these three powerhouses are not only
enabling other businesses, they’re also driving customers their way and
turning themselves into application platforms.
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From the Work Blogs…
On The Farm, the Tucows programming-in-general blog:
- CocoaDialog
– a command-line app that you can call from shell scripts / other
command-line apps to display standard dialog boxes. Good for giving
your interactive command-line apps a Mac-like UI with very little work
on your part.
- Two articles on the book Higher-Order Perl,
a book on writing Perl frameworks that generate functions. I point to
both the book’s site and an interview with the author of Higher-Order Perl, Mark Jason Dominus.
- MySQL Cheat Sheet.
SELECT * FROM MySQL_Reference_Material WHERE usefulness = 100;! - Python Code Snippets for Nokia Series 60 Phones. Writing apps for these phones is easier than you think.
- Mac OS X “Tiger” Release Date — April 29th. Yeah, I’m going to be at my local Apple retailer that day.
- mir.aculo.us and prototype
— one’s a weblog with some awesome JavaScript/DHTML code; the other is
a useful library for JavaScript/DHTML apps. There’s also some mention
of Ruby on Rails.
- Continuations for Curmudgeons. Quite possibly the clearest explanation of continuations I’ve seen.
On IndieGameDev, the blog for independent game developers:
- Mouse Ray Picking Explained. “There
comes a time in every 3D game where the user needs to click on
something in the scene. Maybe he needs to select a unit in an RTS, or
open a door in an RPG, or delete some geometry in a level editing tool.
This conceptually simple task is easy to screw up since there are so
many little steps that can go wrong.”
- TheoWorlds Isometric Flash Game SDKs. Toolkits for building isometric games and chatrooms in Flash, a la Habbo Hotel.
In the Blogware blog:
- Ryerson Review of Journalism on Blogging and Journalism.
A well known J-school’s magazine (produced by graduating journalism
students) takes a look at the intersection of blogging and journalism.
This weekend, I’m flying down to Boston, and from there Wendy and I
will drive to the home of our friends Rachel “Velveteen Rabbi”
Barenblat and Ethan “Global Bacontarian” Zuckerman. Rachel will be the
rabbi at our wedding (with AKMA as the Christian ambassador), and we’ll
be there to discuss how we’re going to blend Filipino and Jewish
traditions in the ceremony.
There may also be some pre-marriage
counselling involved. Wendy and I have already done our homework; we’ve
listened to this 1950’s recording, The Marriage Union [4.3MB MP3]. Hey, Rachel, maybe you’d like to give this a listen — y’know, just so we’re all on the same page…
Apparently, back in the 1950s, they thought they could get away
with an adult voice-acting the
part of an adolescent girl. Give it a listen, but be warned — this
piece is so full of treacle and cheese that you might want to keep an
insulin shot handy.
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Powerpuff Pantheon!
(ghee is Indian clarified butter), you’re going to find a goregously
cute site devoted to Indian culture. The artwork is gorgeous, from the highly stylized rendition of the Hindu gods to the playful typography that gives the site an India flavour without falling into cliche.
GheeHappy is the creation of Sanjay Patel, who in addition to having an interesting site also has an interesting job: he works at Pixar.
Here are some of his renditions of the Hindu gods…
Ganesha. “Please do not offer my god a peanut.”
Kali. This looks like what will happen to me if I am late to pick up Wendy from the aiport again.
Rama. He bears a striking resemblance to Roger Ramjet in both name and appearance.
Shiva. For the destroyer of worlds, he’s pretty cute.
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“Launch lucrative toys!…erm, I mean, fighters!”
If you know where to look, you can find both the script and the comic book adaptation of the upcoming Star Wars installment, Revenge of the Sith…
“I have you now, Saruman!…er, I mean, Count Dooku!”
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Cat Hunting?
[via Boing Boing] Given my dislike of cats, I find it amusing that Wisconsin is considering making cat hunting legal. That’s “cat hunting” as in “humans hunting cats” rather than what is depicted in the picture below (click to see it at full size):
I thought I’d never have an excuse to use this picture. I don’t even remember where I downloaded this pic from. Click the picture to see it at full size.