Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
09jul2007
Watch your neighbour, Paul Battley finds a “creepy and totalitarian” poster.
Land of Saints and Morons, “Ireland has not produced a single important philosopher for the last 300 years – and the Irish have no great regard for thinking. Are we just a bit thick?”, an essay by Max McGuinness.
One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws.
Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. — Martin Luther King
Why Daring Fireball is comment free, transcript of John Gruber talking. (You could claim Anarchaia has no comments for the same reason, but I never really thought of it that way. My next site is going to have comments.)
Simply Easy!, an Implementation of a Dependently Typed Lambda Calculus by Andres Löh, Conor McBride, and Wouter Swierstra. “We present an implementation in Haskell of a dependently-typed lambda calculus that can be used as the core of a programming language.” Really good paper.
All alone–in a tree
You won’t even–kiss me
And I m so–in love–with you
Sky is gray–inside too
Days are filled–dreams of you
Cause I m so–in love–with you
— Dan Bern, Ecstatic Addiction
Four Reasons DNA is Not Computer Code, I read that as: why Computer Code is a bad idea to build organisms from…
Starbucks Economics: Solving the mystery of the elusive “short” cappuccino, by Tim Harford.
project.ion.ist is now two years old and got a huge and cool archive. Congratulations to the editors!
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. — Thomas Jefferson
The Astronomer’s Telegram (ATEL) is for the reporting and commenting upon new astronomical observations of transient sources. “Editors exercise no control over content. The authors are responsible for the content of their Telegrams.”