Anarchaia

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

15nov2007

algorithms for dumb security questions, a clever trick by danah boyd.

Climate Change Escapism, “The images show us what Spain will look like in the future, in a world transformed by climate change.”

Limey 009 by B-rad in SAN

The Long Line is a topological space analogous to the real line, but much longer.

I fell in love the very first night, that I was here
I crashed a party, or a wedding, or a birthday, some Catholic thing; there were priests
I caught her eye, I thought we’d be perfect, but we didn’t speak
Over and over the last three days I’ve been falling in love this way
— Dan Bern, Via Gioberti

“Schlucki”, der Schienenstaubsauger, fährt in der Münchner U-Bahn, und ist 56m lang. (Ich bin ja kein Eisenbahnfreak, aber bei sowas schlägt mein Herz höher. Man beachte auch den Schienenschleifzug Speno.)

Thank you Graphviz, Alex McLean made some awesome graphs.

12 Things I Learned from TV Court Shows, by Calalily.

No pornography exploits women. It exploits men. It’s the men that are made to look stupid, silly and ridiculous, chasing after the golden elixir. Women look beautiful, do what they wanna do and get paid for it. — Lydia Lunch

Antediluvian Unix: A Guide to Unix Fundamentals, probably the best general Unix slide set I ever saw.

Perl 5.10 for People Who Aren’t Totally Insane, it looks pretty nice: all the immediately useful Perl 6 features in a working and proven interpreter.

Integrated issue tracking with Ikiwiki, cool idea.

IMG_2991.JPG by saritabhatt

Is Werewolf Killing the Conference Hackfest?, maybe it will preserve us from future Rubygems. }}:-)

So the world evolved a creature
Infinitely creative
That would make things interesting
And mess the order some
And build towers of buildings
To cut strange lines in the sky
— Dan Bern, Going Fine

Geschenktipp 16: 30 Jahre Computer auf 1,6 qm, “Auf einer 1,8 Meter langen Zeitachse gibt es auf 90 Zentimeter Höhe Infos zu Hardware, Software, Firmen und Technologien.” Sieht super aus.

Multics Source and Documentation, “In order to preserve the ideas and innovations that made Multics so important in the development of computer systems, Bull HN has provided the source code for the final Multics release, MR 12.5 of November 1992 to MIT.” I yay for ITS.

An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything, by A. Garrett Lisi. “All fields of the standard model and gravity are unified as an E8 principal bundle connection. A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality. The interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and Grassmann valued parts of an E8 superconnection are described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold.” And it fits less than 40 pages.