Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
04apr2008
Real Life Futurama, words fail me.
The immediacy of PHP, WJW.
Abraham and Isaac
Digging on a well
Mama come quick
with the water witch spell
Cool clear water
where you can’t never tell
— Grateful Dead, Greatest Story Ever Told
Richard Feynman: The Douglas Robb Memorial Lectures, videos.
Girl vs Pig, neat webcomic.
Military Patches You Should Not Be Seeing, by circletimessquare.
A Spectacular Failure, by Chris Okasaki: “About five years ago, a mathematical puzzle occurred to me. I eventually solved the puzzle, but I don’t want to talk about that solution here. Instead, I want to talk about my first attempt at solving the puzzle, which was an utter failure. A glorious, spectacular failure. Perhaps the single most impressive failure of my career.”
VPN HOWTO, this HOWTO describes how to set up a Virtual Private Network with Linux using SSH and PPP.
He ripped the beast till he killed him dead.
The bees made honey in the lions head.
— Grateful Dead, Samson And Delilah
Programming in Standard ML, working draft of a general introduction to ML by Robert Harper. Fast going and for people with functional programming experience.
The Definition of Standard ML (1990) and Commentary on Standard ML (1991), full text online. Both highly recommended reading, not only for the specification but also the background and history of the language.
Syntactic Conventions used in the MLton compiler. Seems like a good guideline, even if three-spaces indentation seems a bit quirky to me. (Then, many ML keywords are three chars.)