Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
11mar2007
Indexing Heterogeneous Data (PDF), by Nilesh Dalvi and Dan Suciu. Essentially everything I should have needed to know about implementing semistructural databases…
The Face2Face project is to make portraits of Palestinians and Israelis doing the same job and to post them face to face, in huge formats, in unavoidable places, on the Israeli and the Palestinian sides. Great idea.
I need a chorus, a theme
Something to make all this tie together and make sense
But for now I got no chorus and no theme
I keep running off to someplace that I’ve never been
To do something quite unimportant, to stay out of sight
So people other places might think I’m somewhere
Doing something quite important
— Dan Bern, Anger
Functional Family: Mock theta mystery solved, says Erica Klarreich. “It is the so-called final problem of the legendary Indian mathematical genius Srinivasa Ramanujan.
Meet the one wheel balancing scooter: suck it, Segway, want have!
Throughout IRAN, “This is a gallery intended to show views of other side of Iran, different with what you may have seen in the media.” Beautiful stuff.
Sound of silver talk to me
makes you want to feel like a teenager
until you remember the feelings of
a real life emotion of teenager
then you think again
— LCD Soundsystem, Sound Of Silver
Lib B is Joost’s RDF triple store. Looks rather good.
When you just need a bunch of gems quick…, by Gregory Brown. Eeeech!