Jim Roepcke's weblog have browser, will travel (est. 1999)

Linkdump through March 29th, 2007

Google Code: Updates: Four Google open source tools on Google Code

Google Template System

Ruby Jobs

JPL.NASA.GOV: Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn

Foreign Policy: The Case Against George W. Bush

Eventful

Late Night Cocoa | A Podcast For Cocoa Developers

Colour Me Cocoa: Exploring the world of cocoa development for Mac OS X.

Cocoa Blogs

Worldwide Developers Conference 2007 - Tracks

the wphj blog: Interview With Brian Amerige, Developer of Flow

Red Sweater Blog: Who Influences You?

MacApper: Journler: Jot Your Thoughts Down

The .NET Addict's Blog: An experience with the Leopard beta

Ten Myths of the Apple TV: 5.1 Audio

Metro.co.uk: Student punished for spaghetti beliefs

Yahoo! News: Senate OKs war bill with Iraq timeline

Think Progress: Rove's PowerPoint Presentation Revealed During Oversight Hearing

Teaching Online Journalism: Why Al Jazeera English is blocked in the U.S.

Meetup

StumbleUpon

CNET News.com: JavaScript bug hunting tool demonstrated

1989 Bill Gates Talk on Microsoft

QJ.NET: A plea for Folding@Home on Xbox 360

LEGO: Digital Designer : Download

TidBITS: Switching My Mom to the Mac

WiiLoaded.com: Nintendo sells 6 million Wiis ahead of schedule

MIT Responds to Admissions Parody

Lambda the Ultimate: R6RS Ratification

A Patch for Enhanced OCaml Toplevel

a3dweb.com: Getting Lost in a Virtual World

Rail Spikes: 7 Signs Your Project Will Never Make it to Production - all too familiar.

A List Apart: Articles: Ruining the User Experience - also too familiar.

Giles Bowkett: A Conversation With Reg Braithwaite

halostatue: What’s Wrong With Bitwise Magazine?

RedHanded: Wonder of the When-Be-Splat

Kevin's random thoughts: Higher-order messaging

Tom Moertel: Debate to learn. Learn to debate.

Python extension for libmemcache

Google Video: Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: The Java Memory Model

William E. Caputo: Wormhole anti-pattern

News - Croquet Consortium

Read/Write Web: Numenta - Has Artificial Intelligence Arrived?

TechCrunch: Web Services Coming To Twitter

Paul Graham: Why to Not Not Start a Startup

PyPy[release-1.0.0]

Coding Horror: Going Commando - Put Down The Mouse

csmonitor.com: How Eisenhower solved illegal border crossings from Mexico

Dr. Dobb's: An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time

arghyle: Great design- Ineeka Tea

Analysis of Unconventional Evolved Electronics

Conal Elliott: Tangible Functional Programming

Exploring Beautiful Languages: Formating Fortress code with Fortify

Ruby Forum: On Enterprise Ruby

CNET News.com: Oil at $15 a barrel?

The Cafes: What Java Still Can’t Do

Jeff's SQL Server Weblog: Dear DBA ....

Oracle Proposes Open Source Persistence Project at Eclipse Foundation

Goldblog: Python3000 vs. Perl6 ... Wanna Bet?

gnuvince.net: Five things I hate about Emacs and Vim

meanoldteacher.com: C/C++ Programming 2 - course pretest

The B-List: Typo - re: programming language type schemes

TSN: Serge Savard speaks out on fighting

Macworld: Why Microsoft should fear Apple

Crooks and Liars: Jon Stewart Slams Gonzales for Blatant Contradiction

Rubynations: Evolution:: (Rails,Ruby) -> Haskell

bbum's weblog-o-mat: Fatblogging: Huh?

kuro5hin.org: Homeland Security Classifies TRON as "Sensitive" - fiction, but things are so fucked up right now I had to look twice to be sure.

jacobian.org: Five things I hate about Python

Control.Modal : Unobtrusive CSS Modal Windows and Lightboxes for Prototype

PragDave: The RADAR Architecture: RESTful Application, Dumb-Ass Recipient

Dare Obasanjo: Brendan Eich on Mozilla and the Future of AJAX

Yahoo! Mail Web Services

Thinking Parallel: Ten Questions with William Gropp about Parallel Programming and MPI

How to Write an Interpreter in One Day

Slashdot: GWT Java AJAX Programming

EETimes.com: Judge rules against DVD consortium (via Wes)

Parallel Python

Continuations

eigenclass: The PostRailsMonkey Manifesto

Moral Dilemma, advice please

Here's the situation... I have a friend who lives out of town (a day's travel by car). We haven't really spoken much since we left high school but I'd still consider him my friend. I'm 99.999% certain he doesn't read this site.

His mom still lives in town, and we just found out the cancer they thought was under control has spread, it's really bad, and she's already registered to enter hospice care.

The problem, IMHO, is that his Mom doesn't want him to know about it right now, because he and his family are going to Disneyland in a couple of weeks and (I presume) she doesn't want him to cancel the trip on her behalf...

I totally disagree with that though. What if she dies or goes into a coma or otherwise becomes unresponsive before he comes back from vacation? It doesn't seem right. I want to tell my friend that his mom is sick, but I don't feel I have the right to do that. But I'm one of very few people who know she's sick and know how to contact him, and I worry about him having to possibly live with a really bad and avoidable situation.

Have you ever had to deal with a situation like this? What would you do?

Linkdump through March 26th, 2007 (belated)

This linkdump is actually a few days old, it's sat as a draft in MarsEdit waiting for my attention. I've been too busy to post it. In the mean time I've accumulated TONS of other links in Firefox and NNW I need to dump soon.

I didn't know about reddit.com's programming "subreddit" until a week ago or so. It's fantastic, there are dozens of excellent links every day. I'll probably be posting links from it regularly, but if you're a programmer, you should check it out yourself...

reddit.com: programming - what's new online

Coding Horror: What's Wrong With The Daily WTF

The .NET Addict's Blog: Purpose-Driven Development Environments vs. Capability-Driven Development Environments

Red Sweater Blog: The Responder Chain

NSBlog: Custom NSCells Done Right

Cocoia Blog: Review: Security in OS X Leopard Preview Build

Google Hardware in 1998. A classic.

Sunday Magazine: JOHN BOLTON GETTING NAILED ON BBC - great video, definitely check this one out!

C PUZZLES, Some interesting C problems

Emergent Technologies Inc. -- LMI K-Machine - I didn't get a chance to read through it, but it looks interesting...

ergo: Make - An afterburner for your command-line

BBC: h2g2 - Tea

Figurelicious : How Sugar Makes Us Fat

Varnish - Trac "a state-of-the-art, high-performance HTTP accelerator."

Operating System History

Red Sweater Blog: How Do I Really Feel About MarsEdit?

Lap Cat Software Blog: Selectors and performance anxiety

Yahoo! News: Rare Semi-Identical Twins Discovered

Michael Ash's web page

Yahoo! News: Riches await as Earth's icy north melts

IBM doubles CPU cooling capabilities with simple manufacturing change - brilliant!

International Herald Tribune: Venezuela's Chavez announces plans for 'collective property' under shift toward socialism