Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
08dec2006
Celebrate CC globally and virtually, Creative Commons’ 4th Birthday Party is on December 15th.
Make your data behave, DabbleDb gains virtual fields. Pretty neat.
Chromaphonoglyphics (CPG) was created by Richard Brodie, a retired computer programmer now involved in translating Middle English poetry. His goal has been to create a writing system that combines the strong points of both Eastern logographic and Western phonetic language representation paradigms. WJW.
MIT technology expert in coma after Hanoi traffic accident, Seymour Papert was severely injured in a traffic accident and remains in a coma, doctors and colleagues said Thursday.
If tonight was a painting
I guess it d be Picasso
‘Specially that period
When all he used was blue
— Dan Bern, Play The Blues
eskimo: experimenting with skeletons in the shared address model , by M. Aldinucci, 2003. “Based on some simple extensions to C, the library allows to work on large distributed structures following compositional functional semantics.”
Common Lisp turns 12, happy birthday.
A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft(!).
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, “American space agency NASA announced plans to put a permanent space station on the moon as part of an eventual mission to Mars. Not to be outdone, China and India have announced ‘lunar intentions’.”
Quilted Quagmire, a cool puzzle.
PeepCode Screencasts Places a $1,000 Bet on Rubinius, I can’t wait for it!
ASM is a Java bytecode manipulation framework. It can be used to dynamically generate stub classes or other proxy classes, directly in binary form, or to dynamically modify classes at load time, i.e., just before they are loaded into the Java Virtual Machine.
Wheels: On Division by Zero, by Jesper Carlström. “We show how to extend any commutative ring (or semiring) so that division by any element, including 0, is in a sense possible. The resulting structure is what is called a wheel.”
For most people, the definition of smart is “Thinks exactly like me but even more so.” — Scott Adams, Acting Smarter Than You Are
My Personal Pet Peeves I See in Other Peoples Code, generally good points.
REST for toddlers, a lovely explanation by Mark Pilgrim.
Winterbells, a very xmasish (but neat!) Flash game by Ferry Halim.