Algol 68 Genie - An Algol 68 interpreter. Obercool. Algol 68 is indeed a vintage language, but a fascinating one: the only one where a metalanguage was defined for the definition of the language itself, in which the definition of the language itself is written. The Algol68 Report is still one of the most fascinating programming language standards I know.
Archive 28. May 2005
Giro is damn exciting
The stage today was great: at one point, Simoni - after help from DiLuca - had already virtually put on the pink jersey, but then lost it again in the descent and subsequent finish. All positions 1-6 of the general classification were represented in the leading groups and fought for points. Impressive were the quite colorful coalitions that formed and held for quite a long time. Salvodelli has a lead of just 28 seconds over Simoni and 45 seconds over Rujano, today's stage winner, after 3500 km of racing. Wow. It would be nice if the Tour also showed such active cycling once in a while instead of wild tactics.
There is also a PDF Browser Plugin for Safari. Free for non-commercial use. It displays PDFs directly in the browser instead of launching an external viewer. I haven't tried it yet, though.
PithHelmet is an ad blocker for Safari. Very similar in function to the AdBlocker for Firefox. Very practical, making Safari a quite interesting browser again. In addition, PithHelmet for Safari provides selective JavaScript suppression and similar mechanisms - just like OmniWeb does. However, one or two rules (especially the BadSense rule caught my attention) are a bit aggressive, but you can configure that well.
Safari WebDevAdditions is a developer toolbar for Safari - so display of block-level elements, links, etc. It makes a quite practical impression on me.
Saft is a kitchen-sink extension for Safari. Packed with features. However, it's shareware, and I haven't tried it yet.
Scharping is no longer running for the Bundestag - if the statement came from a politician from whom one could assume that he would actually be elected, it would indeed be interesting. But Scharping?