Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
16nov2007
Busicom 141PF Calculator, reverse engineered source of the first 4004 app.
Gaffer Tape Art in Tokyo’s Train Stations, a cool kind of practical typography.
jqCouch is a CouchDB connection plugin for jQuery.
You can make the sun and moon begin to shine
and if you could have your way every day would be fine.
It’s no wonder for as long as I may live
— The Tremeloes, Right Wheel
Ajatus is a revolutionary CRM that runs as a local Ajax web application on your own computer. It uses the CouchDb object database for data storage and enjoys a wide range of plug-in and replication possibilities.
Tiptoeing into Type Theory, by Mark C. Chu-Carroll. I never regarded it as an alternative to set theory, but that’s because I read more CS papers than math stuff, I guess.
Rison, a data serialization format optimized for compactness in URIs. Rison is a slight variation of JSON that looks vastly superior after URI encoding. Rison still expresses exactly the same set of data structures as JSON, so data can be translated back and forth without loss or guesswork. Nice.
Nymbler is the smart baby name guide that responds to your personal taste. Just choose a few names that appeal to you or let Nymbler offer ideas. Ouch.
We take a walk,
The sun is shining down,
Burns my feet as they touch the ground.
— The Tremeloes, Good Day Sunshine
Earthquake Towers, Trapdoors, and other such delights, too bad I’m not in LA: “It will be the single most exciting thing that’s ever happened, anywhere.”
who has a cute new car?, danah boyd does. I’m linking that because of the way she names them, though: “My first car was an old Saab 900 named Cody after the Kerouac character who was always going somewhere but no one could ever figure out where.” (My first own PC was called Paradise for a similar reason, btw.)