Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
09feb2008
The Grammy in Mathematics, “Mathematician nominated for award for restoring the only known recording of a live Woody Guthrie performance.” Yay.
CppSpec is a behavior driven development (BDD) framework for C++. Even looks usuable.
FDA warns of Botox side effects, deaths, ” The popular anti-wrinkle drug Botox and a competitor have been linked to dangerous botulism symptoms in some users, cases so bad that a few children given the drugs for muscle spasms have died, the government warned Friday.” Do tell. WJW.
Dollars and cents
make so much sense
why can’t they work all over
cleveland and nice and dover
Euros and quarters and pounds
— Pretty Balanced, Euros And Pounds
How many functions are there from () to ()?, answer: it depends!
Ten Years of Purely Functional Data Structures, Chris Okasaki recaps. I took this as a chance to look into his thesis again and I don’t regret it: it is very well written and provides clear analysis of his short data structure implementations. (His blog is a good read as well.)
Continued Fractions in Haskell, irrational numbers to come.
a google horror story: what happens when you are disappeared, or: why I POP all my mail and host blogs on my own.
Ladies, on whom my attentions have waited
If you consider my merits are small
Etiolated, alembicated,
Orotund, tasteless, fantastical,
Monotonous, crotchety, constipated,
Impotent galamatias
Affected, possibly imitated,
For Christ’s sake stick it up your ass.
— T.S. Eliot, The Triumph of Bullshit
W3C’s Excessive DTD Traffic, the useless fetching of HTML DTDs troubles the W3C: “up to 130 million requests per day, with periods of sustained bandwidth usage of 350Mbps, for resources that haven’t changed in years.”
Calls for Cthulhu, “Breaking the minds of mankind, and answering their calls.” Very funny videos, also on YouTube.