Year: 2001

A site with some nice articles about New Orleans Ghosts, Vampires and other supernatural phenomena. The article about Vampires has some interesting things to say about Gypsy religion and Vampire beliefs:
Even plants or dogs, cats, or farm animals could become vampires. Pumpkins or melons kept in the house too long would start to move, make noises or show blood.

I’m stealing a link from this Linux Hacker’s Blog (linked to by “Dave Winer”) to the official site of a band called Rockbitch, who “are a group of female musicians who come from a sex commune.“. Their site features lots of nudity and thoughtful questions like this one:

…when a woman can’t even strip to the waist and play a bitching, head-down guitar riff, have her lead singer fuck her with a strap-on whilst a stage surfer licks her feet without authorities wanting to ban over 18’s from coming to see it – well, what has the world of rock and rebellion come to !?

Cleaning up my desktop, I looked at this odd little App, which is a sort of document organizer / outliner thing, except that it stores everything in one XML file. Like I said, odd, and the programmer (who is apparently Japanese) doesn’t say much to dispell the mystery.

Anyway, that app uses a nice-looking toolkit called FOX, And looking at it made me look up other GUI toolkits (there are lots). One of these is called V, and it’s creator (Dr. Bruce E. Wampler, a professor of Computer Science and serious software engineer) also has some interesting stuff on Object Oriented programming on his site, including a draft of a book.