Sjoerd Visscher has a bleeding-edge website that never seems to work perfectly in whatever browser I’m using. However, he has two interesting articles about high-level programming in Javascript and callbacks/event handlers, centered on the flexibility of Javascript Function objects.
Month: November 2001
An online version of I Ching.
Google now converts Word and other file formats to HTML. Google So Rules.
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AP: “Ken Kesey, whose LSD-fueled
AP: “Ken Kesey, whose LSD-fueled bus ride became a symbol of the psychedelic 1960s after he won fame as a novelist with ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,’ died Saturday morning. He was 66.” [Scripting News]
Actually, I heard it from Asaf Bartov first. I never read anything Kesey actually wrote (although I have an unread copy of his book “Demon Box” in this room somewhere), but I read Tom Wolfe’s The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test Kit, after a recommendation from my mom. Wolfe managed to describe the Day-Glo colored inner lives of Kesey and his Merry Pranksters, and he used Comic Book Superheroes as a natual metaphor for that. That book managed to show how cool the Hippies (and the Beats before them) actually were.
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Crossing borders between Unix and
Crossing borders between Unix and Windows – a sensible article about getting the best out of UNIX & Windows both, singing the praises of some good software apps, like Teraterm and Cygwin.
David Bau, who wrote that article, also has a taskbar search utility available on his site (it’s a cool hack that leverages Windows’ ability to run a tiny, tiny IE window in the taskbar) and a nice Javascript console thingie (which requires IE 5+)