Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
25sep2007
An Invitation to Higher Dimensional Mathematics and Physics, by Urs Schreiber. Everyone can understand that.
If I Told You You Had a Beautiful Figure…, by Aaron Gustafson at A List Apart. “Let’s face it, images are a pain in the ass. Okay, well, maybe the images themselves aren’t the problem, but laying out images consistently within a design is difficult; especially when you hand the keys over to someone else to fill in the content.”
There’s beauty in the silver, singin’ river,
There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky,
But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty
That I remember in my true love’s eyes.
— Bob Dylan, Tomorrow Is A Long Time
Hat Heads vs. Bed Heads, by Keith LaFerriere at A List Apart. “Calm tension, communicate more easily, and run your projects more efficiently by applying the right relationship management techniques.”
The World’s Longest Novel, “Grossman tentatively plans to print just six copies of the book, each of which will comprise 4,000 volumes of 750 pages.” WJW.
Hacking the iPhone Notes App for the Admittedly Nit-Picky Purpose of Changing the Text Font to Helvetica, John Gruber finally did it.
What About the Natural Numbers, by Colin Runciman. Pretty radical, but great for functional languages.
Rails is the new Hitler, by Gregory Brown. Makes my day. (And don’t miss the comments.)
Children—especially young children—do not need to learn about IT and certainly do not need to be fluent users of WORD, EXCEL and POWERPOINT. They are not office workers. However, picking up these skills, having grown up with a laptop, will be readily accomplished. — OLPC
tufte-latex provides Tufte inspired LaTeX classes for producing handouts and papers.
Bug in Excel 2007, it thinks 850*77.1 is 10000. This is unbelievable, as well that an application used to mainly deal with financial data is unable to implement proper BCD. Even COBOL could do this!