From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-01-20T05:15:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Best ways to accelerate Ruby's popularity

Ben Giddings (bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com) wrote:
> In the perfect Ruby world that exists only in my head, www.ruby.org 
> would be the official Ruby site, and would be a simple page for newbies, 
> with few links and an easy way to find out what they need to find out 
> about Ruby.

This conversation is rubbing off.  I'm seeing things.  Here's a mockup:
<http://redhanded.hobix.com/cult/rubyorgMockup.html>

There's some commentary in the post, so I won't repeat it all here,
despite the welling enthusiasm I feel for such a project.

> Of course, in this perfect world, I would be 
> 4m tall and made out of titanium, able to shoot lasers from my eyes and 
> to bend humans to my whim with mind-control rays... so I wouldn't count 
> on my perfect world coming into being in the next few months... at least 
> not until the price of titanium drops a little.

In my perfect world, you would be 4m tall and made out of titanium as
well.  However, your laser glance would be disabled and you would have a
ghettoblaster built into your chest and jacuzzis in your feet.  Walking
party.

Also, the cassettes for your ghettochesto would be able to transform
into a gracefully jaguar, a sleek falcon and an ordinary J2EE-compliant
IT director.

_why