Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Athena Framework. CERN’s ATLAS particle accelerator experiment is scriptable with Python.

# 2:43 pm / athena, atlas, cern, particlephysics, python

Sigourney Weaver To Narrate Planet Earth. The Discovery Channel have replaced Sir David Attenborough’s narration of Planet Earth with Sigourney Weaver. Outrage!

# 2:56 pm / david-attenborough, discoverychannel, planetearth, sigourneyweaver

Metaprogramming JavaScript Presentation. Adam McCrea demonstrates some incredibly elegant DSL -style JavaScript based on chaining method calls together.

# 7:45 pm / adam-mccrea, dsl, javascript, metaprogramming

Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech” (why I cancelled my ETech presentations). Truly sickening behaviour.

# 10:29 pm / sickening