Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24nov2005
The Box O’ Truth #5—The Locks O’ Truth “OP, I wonder how difficult it is to shoot a lock off?”
Escherization is totally cool. “Escher was able to discover such tilings through a combination of natural ability and sheer determination. Can we automate the discovery of tilings by recognizable motifs?”
Technology I am Thankful For by Tom Bridge. Hey it’s Thanksgiving.
‘Ugly dog’ Sam dies at 14, it hurts to look at it.
The Noguchi Filing System sounds useful. “Implementation of the system requires the user to discard many conventional notions about how to store paper documents.”
Everything is changing faster than I can describe
All I really know to do is grab the wheel and drive
I look for love, and some adventure
And I try not to let my own breathing scare me off the road
— Dan Bern, Black Tornado
Lively Linear Lisp — ‘Look Ma, No Garbage!’ by Henry G. Baker. Very interesting topic.
Chu spaces offer a uniform way of representing relational and topological structure simultaneously. This is because Chu spaces can represent relational structures via a generalization of topological spaces which allows them to represent topological structure at the same time using the same machinery.
Linear Logic, papers by Philip Wadler.
The Freesound Project passed 10000 files. Congratulations.
Green Orange Framework was born from an idea to use a browser as a development environment to build stand-alone applications for the web. Sick, IMO.
Denn Du bist Deutschland!, köstlich: “Thomas erzählt mir heute mittag von einem Foto, auf dem ein Hitler-Portrait nebst dem Spruch “Denn Du bist Deutschland” zu sehen sei.”
Did the United States target Al-Jazeera? by nebbish. Interesting claim.
Modern Memory Management, Part 2 by Howard Feldman. Good general stuff, as in the first part.
PHP Code Generation with Elisp by Zachary Kessin. Kill me now. Quick.
Document Modeling with Bricolage by David Wheeler. The concepts can be useful for other CMS too, of course.
Elias gamma coding on Wikipedia. I love it when you have a clever idea and see it already has a name.
Ruby, John Wiseman found great praise of Rubyists by Rick Bradley.
Now I’m getting ready
For another long season of silence
And skipping flat stones
Of nights filled with nothing
Of being alone
— Dan Bern, Being Alone
French High Tech Terror Surveillance Law by Thomas Crampton. Is “Digital Fascism” a term?
Hacking eBay: Turning Email Alerts into Atom by Bob DuCharme. procmail is darn useful.
XML 2005: Tipping Sacred Cows by Micah Dubinko. I’d have loved to see Erik Meijer’s talk. And lovely quotes.
zsync is a file transfer program. It allows you to download a file from a remote server, where you have a copy of an older version of the file on your computer already. zsync downloads only the new parts of the file.