Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
28apr2006
Alone, by Sgt York. “It was October. I was 17. I was Alone.”
OpenBSD 3.9: Blob-Busters Interviewed, by Federico Biancuzzi. Includes a link to the new song, too.
A Language-Based Approach to Unifying Events and Threads, “The implementation uses the CPS monad in such a way that the final result is a trace, that is, an ordered sequence of function calls.”
Power Law of Participation, by Ross Mayfield. Features an important diagram and ideas.
Mozes is a kind of SMS driven web tool that can remind and notice you.
I drop things out of windows
I wrap things ‘round my head
And you would too
It s what you’d have to do
You would–too
— Dan Bern, Comme Vous Le Faites Tous
Database War Stories #3: Flickr, ever wondered how they store all that stuff? (And do you really want to know?)
Paris 2054 on BLDG BLOG: “The film seems further proof that students of architectural design should stop pinning all their hopes solely on architecture, and consider guerilla careers as film, or even game, start-ups, using their graphic ideas and energy to take over Hollywood.”
The Solar Corona Problem, one of the visitors was asking about the temperature of the Sun…
Error codes or Exceptions? Why is Reliable Software so Hard?, Damien Katz wonders. A plea for transactions; what about Maybe monads? :-)
DonBolsa: A GoogleTalk-ing Lisp Bot, “What can I do for you?”
Cause it s my country too
Sometimes I gotta remind myself
It s my country too
I pay my taxes
Vote on election day
I stop at stop signs
Just like you
— Dan Bern, My Country Too
BOOST: Berkeley’s Out-of-Order Stack Thingy, (PDF) by Steve Sinha, Satrajit Chatterjee and Kaushik Ravindran. How to implement an efficient stack machine. Nifty optimizations.