Anarchaia

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

17jan2008

Marion Tinsley: Human Perfection at Checkers? , by Jonathan Schaeffer. “Over the last forty-five years of his life, comprising thousands of tournament, World Championship, match, exhibition and casual games, Tinsley lost the unbelievable number of seven games.”

Gitweb URL setting, how to set the Gitweb URL field. Trivial if you know it.

by mummimbear

We can fall below
Or lift our selves above
Fear can stop you loving
Love can stop your fear
— Morcheeba, Fear And Love

Announcing Starling, finally: “Starling is at the core of what we do at Twitter; it moves small messages around to daemons that work on jobs like processing updates, delivering messages, archiving user accounts, and so forth. […] It’s fast, it’s stable, it speaks the memcache protocol so it doesn’t need a new client library, and it’s disk-backed for persistence. […] We’re happy to announce that Starling is now open source and freely available for anyone to use, modify, and improve.”

A Game in plain HTML (no JavaScript, no Flash, no PHP), and not even that easy.

Rubinius adds Multi-VM support, very neat.

Journal für Kunst, Sex und Mathematik, interessantes Blog.

Yarn and what not 075 by Marete

White House Redux, Geoff Manaugh says: “I’m excited to announce that I’m on the jury for a new design competition, called White House Redux, the purpose of which is to design a new home for the U.S. Presidency.”

Remember Lot’s wife
Renounce all sin and vice
Dream of the perfect life
This heaven gives me migraine
— Gang Of Four, Natural’s Not In It

Design Police, with a Visual Enforcement Kit. Must print!

Sun acquires MySQL, another reason to use PostgreSQL.