Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
14mar2008
Grateful Dead discography on Wikipedia.
New Minimalism in Web Interface Design, a compilation by Rainfall Daffinson.
Six-Word Reviews of 763 SXSW Mp3s, by Paul Ford. I listened to 2005 and 2006 and while it was nice, there is better stuff.
Just one thing I ask of you, just one thing for me
Please forget you know my name, my darling Sugaree
Shake it, shake it sugaree, just don’t tell them that you know me
Shake it, shake it sugaree, just don’t tell them that you know me
— Grateful Dead, Sugaree
American Pi, Dave Stuewer, sings a song he wrote for Pi Day, 2007.
USENIX Past Conferences, Announcement: All online conference proceedings are now freely available to everyone. Yay!
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, by George Boole. Nicely TeXed at Project Gutenberg.
Mojibake is the phenomenon of incorrect, unreadable characters (garbage characters) shown when computer software fails to render a text correctly according to its associated character encoding. It is a loanword from Japanese.
Oh he love, he love, he love
He does love his numbers
And they run, they run, they run him
In a great big circle
In a circle of infinity
— Kate Bush, Pi
The World’s 50 Best Works of Art, and how to see them.
One App at a Time, John Gruber on the iPhone SDK restrictions.
Drawing lines, Mark Dominus wrote a little drawing tool. Pretty cool for its size. (R can draw dendograms nicely, IIRC.)
MacRuby 0.1, a version of Ruby that runs on top of Objective-C. More precisely, MacRuby is currently a port of the Ruby 1.9 implementation for the Objective-C runtime and garbage collector. Interesting!