Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
16mar2008
The Wall of Sound was an enormous public address system designed specifically for the Grateful Dead’s live performances by legendary audio engineer and LSD chemist Owsley “Bear” Stanley. WJW.
Haus vom Nikolaus, all 44 ways to draw in parallel. Very neat.
You’re a loop of lazy lightning,
Liquid loop of lazy lightning,
Must admit you’re kinda fright’ning,
But you really get me high.
— Grateful Dead, Lazy Lightnin’
First atomic bomb diagram, it sounds more exciting than it is: “Censored early drawing of an atomic weapon based on the famous U.S Los Alamos “Fat Man” device which was dropped on Nagasaki and detonated in the Trinity test. The diagram is from a report completed by William G. Penney on 1 July 1947.” More such things can be found at The Nuclear Weapon Archive. Enjoy, but be careful!
Type-driven testing in Haskell, video and slides of a talk given by Simon Peyton Jones. “While the focus of this talk is testing, I’ll introduce functional programming as I go along, so that you don’t already have to know Haskell to make sense of the ideas. I’ll also try to give a flavour of why I think you’ll be seeing a lot more crossover of functional programming ideas into the mainstream, over the next few years.”
I don’t know, it must have been the roses
The roses or the ribbons in her long brown hair
I don’t know maybe it was the roses
All I know was I could not leave her there
— Grateful Dead, It Must Have Been the Roses
The Science of Designing Interactions, SXSW 2008 slides by Ming Yeow Ng and Andreas S. Weigend.
The BNF Converter is a compiler construction tool generating a compiler front-end from a Labelled BNF grammar. It is currently able to generate C, C++, C#, F#, Haskell, Java, and OCaml, as well as XML representations.
The Windows Sockets Lame List, yeech.