Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

09jun2007

APP on the Web has failed: miserably, utterly, and completely, good points by Bill de hÓra. But read the critique by Dare Obasanjo linked there first.

Anger Management, pretty mean but fun.

Splash ! - The dancing egg (l'Ou com balla) by 45street

JRuby 1.0, “The JRuby community is pleased to announce the release of JRuby 1.0!” Big congratz to everyone involved.

There’s a hole in the ladder, a fence we can climb
Mad as a hatter, you’re thin as a dime
Go out to the meadow, the hills are a-green
Sing me a rainbow, steal me a dream
— Tom Waits, Diamonds & Gold

Treadmill Bike (Video), cool idea.

ECMAScript Edition 4 Reference Implementation, now in SML. A pre-release is available.

Solving a Sudoku with 1 SQL-statement: the Model-clause, by Anton Scheffer. Eeeevil.

Driving for Maximum Fuel Efficiency, by Liar. “I’m strange. I love to measure things. I’ve used a GPS receiver to find the optimal parking situation at work, I measure the costs of meetings (based on estimates of what I think people make), and I’ve even measured the effects of different driving techniques and the resulting impact on fuel economy. Yes, I’m strange.”

Gotta Run! by hirosan

Must be blind love, only kind of love is stone blind love
Blind love, the only kind of love is stone blind love
With your blind love, oh it’s blind love, stone blind love
It’s your stone blind love
— Tom Waits, Blind Love

Phoning glaciers at 3am, WJW. “The Guardian tells us today about a “unique work of art” that “invites viewers to phone a glacier in Iceland – and listen to its death throes, live, through a microphone submerged deep in the bitterly cold lagoon.””

A Functional Description of TeX’s Formula Layout, by Reinhold Heckmann and Reinhard Wilhelm. “In this paper, we present a re-implementation of TeX’s formula layout algorithm in the functional language SML, thereby providing a more readable description of the algorithm, extracted from the monolithical TeX system.” How I wish I had that when I was young, stupid and serious about rewriting TeX.

Counting transitive relations, Mark Dominus puzzles: “For the last week I’ve been trying to find a good way to calculate the number of transitive relations on a set with three elements.”