Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
07aug2006
Mac Pro, the fastest Mac ever. Probably the only interesting thing from WWDC. And no “one more thing”? Sheesh.
Inflatable Infrastructure, Blowup/Breakdown is an inflatable, biodegradable septic system that addresses sanitation and environmental issues at disaster relief and refugee camp sites.
More archeolinguistics: unearthing proto-Ruby, Mauricio Fernandez digs into Ruby 0.95. Very interesting.
BookMooch, a community for exchanging used books.
When the wind was fresh
On the hills
And the stars were new in the sky
And a lark was heard in the still
Where was I
Where was I
— Feist, Now At Last
International Roaming Fees for Voicemail on GSM, by Joi Ito. I wonder how long this practice will be kept up.
Iterative development in irb, a nice trick by Paul Battley.
Docking boxes (dbx) adds animated drag ‘n’ drop, snap-to-grid, and show/hide-contents functionality to any group of elements. Yay.
Mollio is a simple set of html/css templates, neat.
Clever Harold is an ambitious web development framework written in the Python programming language. It has many features for rapid, reusable, and reliable web application construction.
How to Present to Investors, essay by Paul Graham. 14 useful tips.
So long bye my friend so long
So long will it ever happen again
You know that I’ve been waiting for you
I’ve been creating for you so long
You know the light ain’t fading form you
Nothing could save me form you, so long
— Beth Orton, Thinking About Tomorrow
Alan Turing and morphogenesis, these pages are about the work, on morphogenesis in general and Fibonacci phyllotaxis in particular, which was carried out by Alan Turing in the four or so years before his death, and which remains somewhat obscure.
Permission-Based Ownership: Encapsulating State in Higher-Order Typed Languages, by Neel Krishnaswami and Jonathan Aldrich. Published in PLDI 2005.
Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan: Death Notices, “A polish boy five years old was struck in the stomach by a base ball while watching a game at Grand Rapids last week and instantly killed”, and many others…
Karl Marx’ ‘Capital’ in Lithographs, by Hugo Gellert.
The Fox Tales, We want to know how you’ve spread Firefox to your community.
AOL Just Did the Unthinkable—Boycott AOL?, even public search queries can contain sensitive information when seen in context. OTOH, maybe the AOL people just deserve it. :-P.
Xee is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser for OS X. I declare this an OS X essential utility.
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