Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
10apr2008
GitHub is officially live. Gratulations for the launch!
Workshop on Self-sustaining Systems (S3) 2008, the program is up now. Richard P. Gabriel speaks about “On Sustaining Self”. I’ll be there!
“Manual”, An anthology of new work from seventeen writers with websites. It is available as a downloadable PDF. From 2002, but worth a read if you don’t know it yet. Nicely typeset, too.
Some come to laugh their past away
Some come to make it just one more day
Whichever way your pleasure tends
if you plant ice you’re gonna harvest wind
— Grateful Dead, Franklin’s Tower
Using Amazon S3 from Perl, by Abel Lin. “This article covers the Perl, REST, and the Amazon S3 REST module, walking through the development of a collection of Perl-based tools for UNIX command-line based interaction to Amazon S3. I’ll also show how to set access permissions so that you can serve images or other data directly to your site from Amazon S3.”
Ten Thousand Cents is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool.
Charles Babbage’s masterpiece difference engine comes to Silicon Valley, “A full-scale model of the Charles Babbage-designed difference engine, on display at the Computer History Museum, in Mountain View, Calif. The difference engine will be exhibited for six months starting May 1. It was delivered Wednesday after traveling from London, where it was built at the Science Museum, the home of the world’s only other full-scale difference engine.”
Brown eyed women and red grenadine
the bottle was dusty but the liquor was clean
Sound of the thunder with the rain pouring down
and it looks like the old man’s getting on
— Grateful Dead, Brown-Eyed Women
American Babysitter, by Victor J. Palagano III. Excellent picture.
Custom Corset Pattern Generator, useful, no?
A couple of interesting DSLs, namely OMeta and Pierce.
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