Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
21sep2007
PDF Processing with Perl, by Detlef Groth. “This article shows how to use PDF::Reuse, by Lars Lundberg, for combining different PDF documents and adding bookmarks to them.”
GNU Smalltalk web site launched, “The Smalltalk for those who can type” <3
The World’s Biggest SANs, WJW. (What do they have at the LHC?)
I only found out yesterday
I heard it on the news
What I heard really pissed me off
Cause now I got those fucking blues
I got those awesome blues
Babe I got those nothing blues
— Rolling Stones, Thru And Thru
An Intellectual Exercise in Decimalizing the Year, by circletimessquare. Fun.
Observations on Dove Hunting, by GhostOfTiber. “One of my buddies had a brilliant idea I hadn’t thought of: Check Pennsylvania’s maps for what’s called a co-op farm. It’s not a commune, it’s a farm which offers up it’s land to the public for hunting.”
Binary Lambda Calculus and Combinatory Logic, 210 bit is awesome.
Acme SAC aims to package a version of Acme written for the Inferno operating system as a stand alone editor for multiple platforms to compete against other popular editors: emacs, vim, and jedit.
Yet Another Perl 6 Operator: the series, by Adriano Ferreira. Sounds cool.
Are Authors Technological Poseurs?, Charles Nutter says: “Good authors do not have time to be good developers.” Actually, it’s the other way round.
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site, “The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site, effective at midnight tonight.” [Sep. 18]. “The Times will also make available its archives from 1987 to the present without charge, as well as those from 1851 to 1922, which are in the public domain.” Great!
The Catsters on YouTube: “Monads” and “Adjunctions”. “I hope this is the beginning of a new trend: higher mathematics on YouTube!”
Probabilistic Logic and Probabilistic Networks, “A probabilistic logic offers a richer formalism, one that combines the capacity of probability theory to handle uncertainty with the capacity of deductive logic to exploit structure.”
I know I dreamed you a sin and a lie
I have my freedom but I don’t have much time
Faith has been broken, tears must be cried
Let’s do some living after we die
— Rolling Stones, White Horses
RubyForge vs CPAN, by Daniel Berger. “I think, at the very least, it means that the Ruby community is doing very well in terms of library development and releases.”
12 Houses: The Wonderfully Puzzling and Colorful Use of Spatial Volume and Limey. Wonderful architecture.
Help is a combination of editor, window system, shell, and user interface that provides a novel environment for the construction of textual applications such as browsers, debuggers, mailers, and so on. It combines an extremely lean user interface with some automatic heuristics and defaults to achieve significant effects with minimal mouse and keyboard activity. The user interface is driven by a file-oriented programming interface that may be controlled from programs or even shell scripts.
Quipsologies, a division of underconsideration, is bent on keeping the design community aware of as many things as possible through an ever-growing cluster of creative morsels found on- and off-line. Very neat.
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