Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
05feb2008
Game boy damaged in the gulf war, still works.
A Lambda Calculus Interpreter in Twelf, part #1, finally a neat introduction to Twelf.
Typed relational algebra: schemas, CRUD, source code, by Mauricio Fernandez. Seriously cool stuff.
Rock List: Readers’ Best Protest Songs, at Rolling Stone. Pretty shallow, but it gets better at the top.
Some folks inherit star spangled eyes,
Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord,
And when you ask them, “How much should we give?”
Ooh, they only answer More! more! more!
— Creedance Clearwater Revival, Fortunate Son
The Ruby Community Is Dead, Long Live Ruby Communities, Gregory Brown says.
Lisaac, a new prototype-based language. “It stands as a Self’s successor, however it distinguishes itself in many ways, essentially because of system- programming constraints. Lisaac allows low-level programming but remains a high-level language.”
Die Essayisten, von Kurt Tucholsky. “Jenes alte gute Wort darf auch hier angewandt werden: der Essaystil ist der Mißbrauch einer zu diesem Zweck erfundenen Terminologie. Es ist eine ganze Industrie, die sich da aufgetan hat, und sie hat viele Fabrikanten.” Genial.
Hypertext and the future of reading & writing, “So my next business idea: a platform that allows anyone to import, shuffle & mix their existing stuff – be it text, music, video, or any other type of multimedia – and give them the means to publish it on-demand. I don’t think we actually need paper to do this, Hypertext will do.” Tumblelogging grows up?
What do you get when you cross an ouroboros with a Möbius strip? , “M.C. Escher knew: The dreaded Mouroboröbius!”
It’s the nature of the experiment
It’s the patterns of my temperament
It’s the nature of the experiment
They’re taking me in increments
— Tokyo Police Club, Nature Of The Experiment
Matt Webb on Web Directions North 2008, says: “Best conference ever!” (And now the tumbleloggers have to make up titles, thank you.)
Keeping Your Elements’ Kids in Line with Offspring, by Alex Bischoff at A List Apart. “Maintainable code is even more important if you’re going to hand off your code to a client or a content management system: the less intricate the markup, the fewer chances there are for the nuances of your code to become lost in the shuffle.”
The Rules of Digital Engagement, by Jonathan Follett at A List Apart. “[O]nce you commit to working down the long hallway, the question becomes, how do you successfully navigate this new and changing territory?”
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