Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
31mar2008
Forsyth-Edwards Notation (FEN) is a standard notation for describing a particular board position of a Chess game. The purpose of FEN is to provide all the necessary information to restart a game from a particular position.
Happy Run Some Old Web Browsers Day!, jwz: “In honor of the ten year anniversary of the Mozilla project, home.mcom.com, the Internet Web Site of the Mosaic Communications Corporation, is now back online.”
js2-mode: a new JavaScript mode for Emacs, by Steve Yegge. Seems to be worth a try.
Take a vacation, fall out for a while,
Summer’s comin’ in, and it’s goin’ outa style
Well, lie down smokin’, honey; have yourself a ball,
Cause your mother’s down in Memphis, won’t be back ‘till the fall.
— Grateful Dead, The Golden Road (To Unlimited Devotion)
Password Masking in the Java Programming Language, by Qusay H. Mahmoud. Really really nasty icky trick, almost deserving a WTF. But it works.
Debugging of Maude Modules, by R. Caballero, N. Martí-Oliet, A. Riesco, and A. Verdejo. This is how debugging ought to work: the program says what it does and you judge if the result correct.
Matita (that means pencil in italian) is an experimental, interactive theorem prover under development at the Computer Science Department of the University of Bologna.
It is a solemn thought: Dead, the noblest man’s meat is inferior to pork. — Mark Twain
Aktion Pfalzstorch, mit Webcam!
Google Maps of Sci-Fi, I still consider myself to be the inventor of the geocomic.
Pebble: A kernel language for modules and abstract data types, by Rod Burstall and Butler Lampson.
Three blue stars / Rise on the hill
Say no more, now / Just be still
All these trials / Soon be past
Look for something / Built to last
— Grateful Dead, Built To Last
How To Dry A Wet Book, could be very useful.
gibak 0.3.0, Mauricio Fernandez’s backup tool using Git. News: OSX support, extended attributes, bugfixes.
Earth Evolves, “I’ve been looking at Ron Blakey’s maps of the tectonic evolution of the earth’s surface again, and I just absolutely love these things.”