http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com Few grams of (code )?poetry in a world of brute( force|s). Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:27:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Miao and Lawrence just tied the knot. All my wishes ! http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/2008/08/28/love-luck-and-happiness/ ...And with this plan - disguised as a crumbled paper -, we shall conquer the world !! MWAHAHAHA http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/2008/08/09/minus-cortex-pinky-the-brain/ I've became recently interested in new types of data visualizations. Flight404 created some nice examples with music. Michael Ogawa created a program to view the history of software project : each modification of files, documentation, modules and such is animated, though time. He call that type of visualization "Organic information ... http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/2008/06/15/organic-information-visualization/ A few things about ruby If you use emacs, live on the edge with the emacs-rails SVN trunk, that plays better with RoR 2.0+ The faker gem is handy if you have to create dummy data/pages If you have trouble with the error unexpected tINTEGER after creating a new model, you may have ... http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/2008/05/20/quick-tips/ An excellent video work by So-Me / Machine Molle http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/2008/03/05/justice-dvno/ Licenced under Creative Commons by-nc-nd http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/2008/03/01/lem0nade-psyche/ Danmaku (japanese : 弾幕) are shoot-them-up games where enemies fire at you loads of bullets. Screen can be filled with them, and playing such games requires great skills. I just found a Gosu playing two players at the same time with his two hands. http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/2008/02/24/shoot-them-up-the-most-insane-thing-ive-ever-seen/ As seen on Geektube.fr http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/2008/02/23/an-interesting-way-to-present-gmail/ It's quite old, but it was a very interesting and disturbing idea : Virgin organized an art contest where submited artworks would be seen by more than 2.1 milion people from 26 different places. A contest for the design of sickbacks. (Be sure to look at the gallery, some artwork are ... http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/2008/02/10/design-for-chunks/ http://yet.another.linux-nerd.com/2008/02/08/coming-soon/