Anarchaia

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

20jul2007

Death by Suburb, “The Washington Post profiles Virginia suburbanites who, fed up with the upkeep needed to maintain their lifestyles–and by extension, suburbia itself–are clamoring for simpler lives.”

The Broken Metric of “Intuitive to the Uneducated” Language Syntax, by chromatic. So true.

D'oh! by sorensen

Checkers now is a boring game.

Heiß, heiß, kochend heiß
Heiß, heiß, hundert Grad
Heiß, heiß, glühend heiß
heiß, heiß, blühend weiß
— Ton Steine Scherben, Jenseits Von Eden

Email tricks, that might solve a few webapp problems, mailing a form is clever indeed.

The Lives and Death of Moore’s Law, by Ilkka Tuomi. “As semiconductors are becoming important in economy and society, Moore’s Law is now becoming an increasingly misleading predictor of future developments.”

Introduction to Haskell, Part 2: Pure Functions, by Adam Turoff.

Nigerian pupils browse porn on donated laptops, made my day.

Introduction to Flex Using PHP, by Jack Herrington. I like how this is independent from the server side.

Tough questions, by Mark Dominus.

PICT0285.jpg by graemeaymer1

Little Earth was a “four channel synchronised video installation with surround sound,” featuring scenes “shot on Haldde Mountain in the Norwegian Arctic, Ben Nevis in Scotland, and on the island of Svalbard, with computer animations of the Earth’s magnetosphere modeled by the Leicester Radio and Space Plasma Physics Group.”

Billige Räusche, hartes Verlangen,
soviele Jahre sind vergangen
Und das ist gut so, mach kein Geschrei,
denn nur so geht alles vorbei.
— Funny Van Dannen, Billige Räusche

Scalable fault-tolerant upgradable systems, Part 1, by Joe Armstrong.

The 10th ICFP Programming Contest has begun. “Endo is an alien, crashed on Earth, and is in desperate need of DNA repair.” Pretty awesome exercise.

iPhone ringtone installation, “How to add a custom ringtone (for intel Mac users only…for now)”