Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24apr2008
Recounting the rationals, Mark Dominus read of a nice way to do it. Recommended reading.
Final Shift for Call/cc: Direct Implementation of Shift and Reset, by Martin Gasbichler and Michael Sperber. “We present a direct implementation of the shift and reset control operators in the Scheme 48 system. The new implementation improves upon the traditional technique of simulating shift and reset via call/cc.”
Vee is a command-line blog tool that is very portable across Unix systems.
unsubscribe me from Humand Rights Abuse. Shocking waterboarding movie. “Thousands of unsubscribers have now joined up. The threat of terrorism is real, but trampling over human rights and abandoning our values is not the answer. From Guantanamo Bay, Rendition, Torture and Waterboarding – we unsubscribe.”
There’s no time to waste
The first gets the land
Where we need to build our home
Quiet people build the hardest gold
— You Will Get Well Soon, It’s A Race For Our New Home
Species: making analytic functors practical for functional programming, by Jacques Carette and Gordon Uszkay. “Species are analytic functors, representing a broader range of structures than regular functors. This includes structures such as bags, cycles and graphs.”
This is the story of Helmer, a linux cluster in a IKEA Helmer cabinet.
Bring Out Your Inner Tool With Peripherals Pants, add a HUD, yay!
The Great Porteño Smokeout, Maciej Ceglowski reports: “For many days, a thick layer of smoke from burning scrub in the nearby river delta has covered the capital region, much of Entre Ríos province and parts of Uruguay, turning the name “Buenos Aires” into an outright mockery.”
To the beat of my automatic heart you sing a song of life
We let it all go by on this easterday — no one
Will divide us again
— You Will Get Well Soon, Tick Tack Goes My Automatic Heart
Pac-Man was a game you could beat. You could beat it by memorizing patterns. The ghosts, you see, weren’t programmed for randomness. Ms. Pac-Man is a different story.
A Beginner’s Introduction to Perl 5.10, by chromatic and Doug Sheppard.
A closed timelike curve (CTC) is a worldline of a material particle in spacetime that is “closed,” returning to its starting point.