Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
16jun2007
Are Computer Keyboards Dishwasher Safe?, not if they’re attached to an iBook, I guess.
Buckytree is an implicit data structure for O(NlogN) spatial sort and O(logN)? spatial search of dimensional objects. Because the data structure is implicit, no spatial index is required. When present, the spatial index can be a simple array without pointers. Sounds very neat.
Chairs. Many of them.
git.debian.org, lots of repos there.
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
— P. B. Shelley, Ozymandias of Egypt
US time capsule yields rusty car, “A car buried in Oklahoma in 1957 as a time capsule to mark the US state’s 50th anniversary has caused some dismay after being finally unearthed.” IMO, this is a very serious problem: imagine what’s left over of today in 250 years?
The Octopus: Building Distributed Systems by Centralizing Everything (PDF), by Francisco J Ballesteros, Pedro de las Heras, Enrique Soriano, and Spyros Lalis.
Pyramus und Thisbe, deutsch und lateinisch.
Sleep Tracker, how do you move at night?, Anita Lillie wondered.
The Monolith Game, by Julius Yang. “Required pieces: One giant steel monolith, 1x4x9 feet. Two or more teams of people. One or more referees, mutually chosen by the teams.”
The Storm Room, “Instead of TV, it seems, you can watch 3D reconstructions of ancient storms – hopefully in surround-sound.”
RESTify DayTrader, Joe Gregorio says: “Why build a RESTful web service for DayTrader? Because I frequently hear that REST can’t be applied to complex situations. I also want to use the example as motivation for talking about some of the idioms that are available to handle more extensive requirements.”
What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes?
What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes?
What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes?
What’s Yr Take on Cassavetes?
Misogynist? Genius?
Misogynist! Genius!
Misogynist! Genius!
Misogynist! Genius!
— Le Tigre, What’s yr take on Cassavetes
I Guess Matz Will Not Be Retiring, and there was much rejoicing.
Everything is dynamically typed, “Static typing feels a lot like Aristotelian categorisation: one and only one type for each variable.”
See Dog Run, by daqron. “Behavioral observations on the introduction of autonomous motility to a digitally-entrenched corporate whore.”
Incident No. 34: A Magic Milk, by _why the lucky stiff.