Links & notes for this month

• • Rails RJS Templates -- Just added to Rails, I believe; a simple way of adding | ajax jav
• • Build your own paper rocket! -- Awesome! From Make magazine 04 | construction folding modelling paper toys
  • TechEBlog - Functional Paper V8 Engine -- Awesome. Super-detailed working V8 engine made of paper. | construction design engine model paper
• Most interesting article from the Observer magazine on autism, from two Sundays ago. Brings a variety of perspectives to bear on the topic, and talks to a nice cross-section of people. Some days are red-badge days for anybody, autistic or not. | Tags: article, aspergers, autism, psychology
• • Digital Vision Program - blog - Paul Rankin: Voices in Your Hand, a pilot project developed by Philips -- Asynchronous voice messaging for underdeveloped/poor countries; compete with post, not phone. | developingworld innovation messaging mp3 phone
  • Guardian Unlimited Technology | Technology | Let's get physical -- Like the Crystal Maze, but not on telly. Interesting - taking gaming metaphors into the real world | design games interaction physical
• It's.. the Visual Studio 2005 song! From Microsoft Korea; it's catchy, awesome, and has a great flash animation. The product clearly can't live up to the song. All together now: "Visual! Studio! Team! System!" | Tags: flash, microsoft, programming, silly, song
• project.ioni.st on storing sessions in your db. Succinct, handy, and goes straight on the "do not lose!" pile. | Tags: development, rails, rubyonrails, sessions
• • Thraxil -- Good article on unicode. Plus, I *love* the representation of the date-breadcrumbs in the header | postgresql python unicode
• Interesting post to the london.pm list, following London Web Frameworks Night. It addresses the image problem Perl has, and the marketing it needs to do. In short, Perl itself is fine, and it has some a few advantages (eg CPAN, DBI) to Ruby/Python, but it sure needs to sell itself better. [As spooled earlier today.] | Tags: django, frameworks, marketing, perl, python, rails, ruby
• Penny Arcade redesign and annouce that they're now running on Rails. Good for them. Knowing how popular PA is, this could be the real test of whether or not "it will scale"... | Tags: pennyarcade, rails, rubyonrails, webcomic
• Right now, my mouth stinks, my throat hurts, my nose runs, my eye itches, and my head swells. I want a head transplant. Now. | Tags: health, meta, self