Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24sep2005
Battling Google, Microsoft Changes How It Builds Software, been time?
I can’t provide for you no easy answers,
Who are you that I should have to lie?
You’ll know all about it, love,
It’ll fit you like a glove
When the night comes falling from the sky.
— Bob Dylan, When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
Surgical pins by David A. Chappell. I love X-rays.
Blauer Reis, zu geil: “Ein japanischer Hersteller vertreibt “Diet Furikake”, ein blaues Zeug, das sich abnehmwillige Japaner über ihren Reis streuen sollen, damit der dann ekelig aussieht und sie in logischer Folge weniger davon essen.” Sieht aber lecker aus.
“Other” Knuth Lecture Series, featuring “TeX For Beginners” and “Advanced TeXarcana”, not at least “The Internal Details of TeX82”.
Pre-Fascicle 0b: Boolean basics, Knuth’s latest published chapter.
PoweredByRubyButtons on RubyGarden. I hadn’t seen the ones by Kailash Nadh yet, very nice.
More Smoke, John Wiseman says: “Last night Vandenberg’s launch of a DARPA satellite caused everyone in LA to stop their cars and bust out the cameras.”
Bubble Wrap has been a source of fascination for people of all ages since its invention. Now, finally, there is a web page dedicated to this most entertaining packing material.
Echo2 is the next-generation of the Echo Web Framework, a platform for developing web-based applications that approach the capabilities of rich clients.
Maude is simple. Its semantics is based on the fundamentals of category theory, which is pretty intuitive and straightforward until a mathematician tries to describe it formally with symbols and Greek letters. — Theodore McCombs, Maude 2.0 Primer
Maude is a high-performance reflective language and system supporting both equational and rewriting logic specification and programming for a wide range of applications. Mixfix rules!
Oh the seas will split
And the ship will hit
And the sands on the shoreline will be shaking.
Then the tide will sound
And the wind will pound
And the morning will be breaking.
— Bob Dylan, When the Ship Comes In
Macros in the Dylan Reference Manual.
Scheme Is Love, Don Box says and John Wiseman comments: “All the cool languages have lambda these days.” They always had, they always had.