Perl is Finished Segfault.org reports: “In a shock usenet post yesterday, Larry Wall announced a halt to all further development of Perl. The recently issued 5.6.0 version will be the last officially sanctioned version of Perl.” (via Jeff) Continue reading

Parachutes I jumped out of a plane without a parachute once. Well, actually I was attached to someone else who did have a parachute, but at least I can say I know what it feels like. Here are some quotes from Dave Winer about parachutes: Two Days at Davos “At dinner last night I told… Continue reading

Oliver Willis “Fighting stupidity since 1977” An interesting website… Found via a banner ad displayed on my site while editing. He’s looking for an apartment in LA: “I am not asking for a lot, just a studio or 1 bedroom that allows a small dog for under $800/month. Why is this so hard?” Don’t move… Continue reading

Kennedy Links- Dead, Alive and Otherwise Jeff Cheney has gone Kennedy-crazy today. He’s got links to everything from the Dead Kennedys, to the Kennedy Space Center, to a (huh?) creme-filled donut. Continue reading

WWW9 is Over Dave Winer on Scripting News: “WWW9 is over. We had a wonderful day. It started with the distributed computing track, we talked about XML-RPC and SOAP. Lots of really good energy, it was the talk of the conference, it was a bit shocking to me to see how widely embraced this stuff… Continue reading

5K: IDEO Web Color Visualizer Mark Chance, Leo Kopelow, and Danny Stillion of the Interaction Design group at IDEO Product Development, came up with this entry to the 5K contest: The IDEO Web Color Visualizer. Continue reading