Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
14may2006
LIBRA: A Lazy Interpreter of Binary Relational Algebra, by Barry Dwyer.
Tiny Eyes, ever wondered how your baby sees the world—or how they see you?
Gatlin sets 100m world record, Olympic champion Justin Gatlin broke the 100-meter world record Friday with a time of 9.76 seconds at the Qatar Grand Prix.
American Mathematical Society Books Online, by Subject Classification. Among them “A Century of Mathematics in America”, parts 1 to 3.
Egyptian Fractions, Mark Dominus explains: “The Egyptians, at least at that time, did not have a generalized fraction notation. They would write fractions of the form 1/n, and they could write sums of these. But convention dictated that they could not use the same unit fraction more than once.”
Knock to world
Right off its feet and straight onto its head
Oopala, we’re lonely laughing after you are dead
Fascinated by the look of you and what was said
Make a play for all the brightest minds in life will share
— Red Hot Chili Peppers, She’s Only 18
Jailtime.org provides virtual filesystems for Xen. “Here you will find Linux distributions that can run as Xen guests out of the box, obviating the need to create your own custom filesystems. The filesystems on this site have already been tweaked to deal with Xen’s idiosyncracies, and are also designed to be lightweight and minimally divergent from the original distribution.”
The Wicked, “Think without the box”. Pretty difficult web puzzle.
Vista-Entwickler bekommen pro Bug 100 Dollar, und übermorgen: Microsoft meldet Chapter 11 an. ;-P
ViewVC is a browser interface for CVS and Subversion version control repositories. I wished it would support more.
Analysis of the Linux Random Number Generator (PDF), by Zvi Gutterman, Benny Pinkas and Tzachy Reinman.
The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert’s Symphony Number 9. — Erwin Dieterich (via Jean-Claude Wippler)
Good Technical Blogs at Microsoft, a list by Rick Jelliffe. I personally like the Excel blog a lot.
Playing God, by Graham Glass. “This seems to include the act of creating new kinds of life that don’t currently exist on Earth, which in turn raises some interesting philosophical questions.”
It looks to me like heaven
Sent this for your roughest night
She looks to me
She looks to me all right
— Red Hot Chili Peppers, She Looks To Me
A Mars Supreme, beautifully stitched.
Building and Testing gcc/glibc cross toolchains, “I call my updated script and associated patches ‘crosstool’. It’s fairly easy to use and can be run unattended as part of an automatic build process, and should go a long way towards making it easier for the average developer to get started with gcc cross-compilers and help test new releases of gcc.”