Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24jan2007
Hate On Display, A Visual Database of Extremist Symbols, Logos and Tattoos.
Competition to select a replacement for SHA-1, yum.
The RadioGatún Hash Function Family, didn’t hear of these before.
David Rovics makes songs of social significance and is recommended by Pete Seeger.
Bring ‘Em Home, Jörg Kantel found a great clip of Pete Seeger singing.
I learned our government must be strong.
It’s always right and never wrong.
Our leaders are the finest men.
And we elect them again and again.
That’s what I learned in school today.
That’s what I learned in school.
— Tom Paxton, What Did You Learn in School Today?
Libtask, a Coroutine Library for C and Unix available for FreeBSD, Linux, OS X, and Solaris.
Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast (but is slow in Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, …), Russ Cox says. It’s rarely been the bottleneck to me, though…
What’s New in Prototype 1.5?, Scott Raymond knows.
The 5 sins of Vista, nobody’s gonna use it.
Railisms (core/stdlib extensions in Ruby on Rails), Mauricio found out: “There are over 220 Railisms.” Shudder.
My best friend, he shoots water rats
And feeds them to his geese
Don’cha think there’s a place for you
In between the sheets?
— The Rolling Stones, Live With Me
Bootstrapping from the pure lambda calculus, a quick walkthough of conses, peano arithmetics and the Y combinator.
Geology in the Age of the War on Terror, “The area that is now Afghanistan started to take shape hundreds of millions of years ago,” the article explains, “when gigantic rocks, propelled by the immense geological forces that continuously rearrange the earth’s landforms, slammed into the landmass that is now Asia.”
6 week vegan detox completed, kudos to Joi Ito. “I’ve lost 11 kg or so, mostly in the first two weeks. My blood levels including a high uric acid level and y-GTP have gone back to “normal”.”