Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
30mar2008
Draco 0.3 has been marked release quality. Changes since beta2 includes the removal of SlackBuilds as build system, it took two month more than expected, but I believe it was worth it. Draco is now self contained and can easily be (re)built from the commandline.
Angerwhale is blogging software that reads posts from the filesystem, and determines authorship based on the post’s PGP digital signature.
16.399: Abstract Interpretation, a bunch of material for a course by Patrick Cousot and Jerome Clarke Hunsaker.
Twimbler, a Twitter-backed tumblelog system.
Even though I been a stranger, full of irony and spite
Holding little but contempt for all things beautiful and bright,
Something shines around you and it seems, to my delight
To give me just a little sweetness…
Just a little sweetness…
Just a little sweetness…
Just a little light.
— Grateful Dead, Just a Little Light
A Guided Tour of emacs-git, by TSKim, a new Emacs interface for Git.
punch is a k.i.s.s. tool for tracking the hours spent on various projects. It supports logging hours under a project name, adding notes about work done during that period, and several very simple reporting tools that operate over a window of time.
Yhc/Javascript backend: personal/historical notes, by Dimitry Golubovsky.
Improving the neighbourhood, a great short story by Arthur C. Clarke.
Power Plant, “The roots of garden pea plants were exposed to low-level electric current and subsequently produced 13 times more pisatin, an antifungal chemical, than plants that were not exposed to electricity,” we read.
RetroForth 10 now uses a virtual machine. Great!
Cellular Automata Sand Pile Model, a neat Java applet.
Everything I tell you, I heard it first from you.
Heard your news report, you know you’re falling short.
Pretty soon, we’ll trust you for the weather.
When that ship comes in, you won’t know where it’s been.
You got to try to see a little farther.
— Grateful Dead, They Love Each Other
The linguistic turn refers to a major development in Western philosophy during the 20th century, the most important characteristic of which is the focusing of philosophy, and consequently also the other humanities, towards a primary focus on the relationship between philosophy and language.
Things I have learned in my life so far, fantastic site.
A Victim Treats His Mugger Right, idealism at work. Heartbreaking.
Earthquake Intensity, “Tom Weller suggests the humorous Rictus scale (a take off on the conventional Richter scale) for earthquake intensity.”
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