Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29jun2005
Fluxus, a 3d-art environment for Scheme.
Dyna is a small, very-high-level programming language that makes it easy to specify dynamic programs and train their weights. Now that looks very powerful.
GCC Summit 2005 notes by Dan Kegel.
Thirty-Two Seconds, The giant airship Hindenburg hovered virtually motionless less than 250 feet above the Naval Air Station at Lakehurst, NJ, having all but completed her first American flight of the 1937 season. At keepgoing.org.
Software serves a human function or fails to. There is no Plato’s heaven where mathematical cleanliness sits supreme, where the correctness of an abstraction is alive. — Richard P. Gabriel, Patterns Of Software
When Your SysAdmin Goes To The Media by Chris Josephes. Shit happens.
GPUSort: High Performance Sorting using Graphics Processors, if you got nothing better to do…
Adieu l’Emile je vais mourir
C’est dur de mourir au printemps tu sais
Mais je pars aux fleurs la paix dans l’âme
Car vu que tu es bon comme du pain blanc
Je sais que prendras soin de ma femme
— Jaques Brel, Le Moribond
IMC Bristol’s Server beschlagnahmt, wann muss Indymedia nach Sealand umziehen?
Die Schnapsidee des Tages: Arbeitslose zu Kanonenfutter, “Manchmal frage ich mich, welches Kraut unsere Politiker eigentlich rauchen, denn soviel Alkohol kann man gar nicht trinken, um auf so blöde Ideen zu kommen.”
Command-line Growl Notifications, Nitesh Dhanjani uses a small script to growl success and failure of programs.
Rodney Brooks: Innovation at the Interface, lemonodor comments. I don’t think we need roboters now as we needed computers in 1978, though.
Ruby-Lisp Hybrid Pix, Daniel Brockman’s Emacs screenshots.
Poles Race to Claim Nonce Words, what? MSNBETTER THANGOOGLE? No way.
Tokyo Art Beat is probably the most comprehensive art event site for Tokyo in both English and Japanese; via Joi Ito.
Welcome to podTunes, Giles Turnbull recaps comments about iTunes 4.9.
Back to the Future—Morse Code and Cellular Phones by Brian McConnell. Not a new idea, I had it before, among a lot of others. But for some new thoughts and good comments, read it nevertheless.
We are kids
We think life is a scam
We come from a wasted land
We are kids we play punk rock and roll
If we didn’t we got no soul
— The Distillers, Sick Of It All
Council of empty seats by ruderod. “Among the 20 empty chairs there where about 40 seats of warm bodies.”
Grokster is Dead, Long Live Grokster! by Alex Krupp.
Part 5: Naked Lunch and Sex and Relationships by Egil Skallagrimson.