Distractions

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.

An article from about running convention games from Places to Go, People to Be. Cool quote (yes, it’s quote day here on my blog):

two armies face each other across the plains. One is flesh and blood, the other robotic, unfeeling and deadly. A heroic sacrifice is about to be made. Then some f**kwit has the bright idea to raise the mood by having a clown prat fall around in the foreground. Thank you very much, Mr. Lucas.

Don’t do that. Just don’t.