Archive: December 29, 2004

Wednesday, December 29, 2004

1. Tony Blankley: Americans pass gut check, via Jayson at PoliPundit.

   Our recent election joins the select ranks of epochal American presidential elections alongside: 1792, 1860, 1932 and 1980... What makes this an epochal election is what it says about the American public. After Nov. 2, the world now knows that Americans intend to stand and fight. So far, America's public is the only one that has so indicated.

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2. Glenn has a fascinating post about a recent bout between the Power Line guys and Nick Coleman at The Star Tribune, and its wider implications for blogdom (*another* word I like better than "blogosphere").

   Update: Matt has comments (to read) and Glenn has more (also to read).

   Update: The Star Tribune, it seems, has shoddy journalistic standards.

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3. WordPress › Development Blog: Version Skip. I just noticed that on Michael's site before reading this. If they were Sun they'd be calling it WordPress 5.0.

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4. The Ceryle Project. I'm not sure yet how it's different from all the other mind-mapping tools out there. Like Chris, I gotta explore a bit.

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5. The Amazon.com Tsunami relief fund is about to reach $1,000,000. (Via Glenn and Michael). Update (2:20pm): It's over 2.1 million.

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6. The Boost MPL Library:

   The Boost.MPL library is a general-purpose, high-level C++ template metaprogramming framework of compile-time algorithms, sequences and metafunctions. It provides a conceptual foundation and an extensive set of powerful and coherent tools that make doing explict metaprogramming in C++ as easy and enjoyable as possible within the current language.

   Via LtU

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7. Use continuations to develop complex Web applications (to read), via LtU.

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8. From Paul, who maintains a great list of XML Alternatives comes the CFLD (Compact Flash Linux Distribution) list, which lists Linux distributions that are small enough to fit on a flash card. I'm surprised Damn Small Linux didn't make the list.

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9. jEdit manual: Writing Macros. I'm very psyched that macros in jEdit are transparent. With EditPlus I had to record a macro and hope that all was right. If I screwed up I'd have to start all over. With jEdit, I can fix a screwup, add to an existing macro, etc. It's great.

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10. The Department of Justice has produced a large article on Whether the Second Amendment Secures an Individual Right, via Dave Kopel, whose work was cited in the report.

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