Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
25dec2006
Ikea instructions for making Dick in the Box, PNSFW.
tuProlog is a Java-based light-weight Prolog for Internet applications and infrastructures. For this purpose, tuProlog is designed to be easily deployable, minimal, and configurable.
The Hindley-Milner Algorithm, implemented in Perl5 by Nikita Borisov.
You know that I’ll be waiting
To hear your footsteps saying
That you’ll be coming home for Christmas
— Kate Bush, Home For Christmas
10 Best Self Made Christmas Trees, neato.
James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured “Godfather of Soul,” whose revolutionary rhythms, rough voice and flashing footwork influenced generations of musicians from rock to rap, died early Christmas morning. He was 73.
BLDGBLOG Redesigns…, “BLDGBLOG got a much-needed facelift today. It’s now sporting three columns; it’s got more links, divided up into better and more accurate sub-headings; the gigantic “previous posts” list is back, allowing you to read everything that’s ever been written here (broken up by month); the fonts and colors are slightly different; and there’s a bit more room for ads (hint-hint).” Well done!
arXiv Policy Statement?, John Baez got a very good question.
And I stopped taking dope
and I quit drinking whiskey
and my old man plays the trombone
and works out at the track.
— Tom Waits, Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis
The economic value of user contributions to Internet sites, by Andy Oram. “User contributions may help to bulk up every business that depends on information, but they also force the painful exercise of new muscles.”
Wii-diculous (YouTube), Playing the Wii in a Movie Theater. Whoo.
Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. — Bertrand Russell
The Blasphemy Challenge, by Eloquence. “So far over 350 people have been willing to exchange their soul for a free DVD. Some of these videos are quite clever, though most simply contain the plain catchphrase, “I deny the holy spirit.””