Chipping the web – Joltin’ Joe

Rosa Parks Highway:

The portion of interstate highway 55, one mile south of Lindbergh Boulevard to Butler Hill Road, contained within a county of the first classification with a charter form of government having a population over nine hundred thousand shall be designated the “Rosa Parks Highway”.

Missouri Revised Statutes
Chapter 227
State Highway System
Section 227.312

TDavid shares the general contempt for Wikipedia’s Google-juice shutoff, but rather than responding in kind he’s decided to link to Brittanica instead. An interesting choice — I’d bet that they have more reliable content, but not nearly as much — especially on geek topics. Try, for example, a search for rad50 on each.

Randy, we’ve got to stop linking like this. People will start talking.

I was just passing on the tags for the “why do you blog?” meme, but Kent picked up my tongue-in-cheek title and answered the “why do you respond to memes?” meme. Quite interestingly, too.

Alyx lists 13 rules for relationships, learned from hard experience.

Veni, Vidi, Verbosity: many humorous variations on Caesar’s famous speech to the senate (thanks, Maximillian Kaizen).

The Dead Guy really is dead. I. M. Dedd is moving on to the next life.

People who prefer XML to JSON are 50% more likely to prefer Pinot Noir to Merlot. People who prefer JSON to XML are 30% more likely to prefer Merlot to Pinot Noir. Thanks for the time-waster belong to Assaf, who also quips: “Everytime you meta-program, God kills a for loop.”

Steve Yegge on the Next Big Language. I’m gratified that Steve and I agree that static typing, though a useful feature, should be optional and not the default — exactly how Synergy/DE 9 implements it. Is Synergy/DE the NBL? In my dreams — too many items on Steve’s list in rule #5 are still missing. apotheon expands Steve’s topic from NBL to NBT (Next Big Thing), including considerations on the platform and the system.

Thanks to widget users

Radical element, aquastuff, and André Cedik use the keywords-tagcloud widget.