Amidst the night, trapped at work, kudos to all.
I’m stranded in Duesseldorf at work, so instead of being home, in my bed and asleep, I’m sitting next to our frontend guru who’s still awake enough to get real work done. My next possible train goes at 4:31am, but taking it would be rather pointless — to get me awake in the morning, my first alarm goes off at 4:43am. So, at about 6:30am one could distinguish me from a dead-asleep person. So, here I am, stranded not only by means of location but also by means of time.
Because of that — and because of feeling still quite awake — I’m now going through the favourites I collected on Twitter the last few weeks, putting them together for some new post. (Sorry, I don’t have the preparation file here at work for going on with my posting series on prerequisites on starting a social network.)
Also, I have experienced, just posting links is not much fun for the reader — at least I am not willing to follow links to figure out what they are about. Blogs like Medgadget or Netzpolitik mostly present uncommentedly. Hence, my consequence is to post my gathered links, but add intros to them:
get some fun/admiration into the new day:
- Twitter pal pragdave made me aware of a great pantomime performance: Apparently in January 2008, 200 people froze in place amidst the commuters passing Grand Central Station in New York. As you might suspect, indeed it was a flashmob. And who was behind the scenes? Improv Everywhere Global. They’ve got a report of the stunt on their blog.
- by way of pl0g.de I learned about some hooligan in the Berlin tram, about to attack a woman. Some curageous young man stops the bum cold — a very unexpected way. Sorry, I won’t reveal this one to you, see yourself.
- CompSci.ca imagines programming languages were boats — provides pictures of boats and declares them to be programming languages. Thanks for the hint, joshuaclayton!
…or some music…
- By way of troubalex, I recently learned about jamendo.com, a place where musicians distribute their music by.
- jkleske pointed to an album of free music he currently favours — and I like it too. It is a mixtape by the Aerotone netlabel, featuring Sven Swift and called underwater is a place to be alone. Which pretty nicely hits the nail on its head. Ambient. I love it!
…but back to technology:
- Labuschin linkbaited for his blog post — but he’s notably good at providing links. First one to mention is to a post of Rails Jedi presenting his top ten Railscast shows, second one goes to a link collection to noteworthy pages on Ruby on Rails.
- mikepence made me aware of an especially noteworthy posting that makes clear why Netbeans is a rather good IDE for developing Rails
Well, that’s it for today. Shall not get too long.
Update: Fixed some broken sentences and the subheadings.
