Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

14jun2008

The Case for Cocktails, “Fifty years ago, men ordered Manhattans, women drank Mai Tais, and no one brought guns to school. The logic is irrefutable; Margaret Mason urges you to drink well.”

Simon Critchley’s top 10 philosophers’ deaths, the greek win.

B&W Beauty by gatomata

The 2008 Underhanded C Contest, “The object of this year’s contest: write a short, simple C program that redacts (blocks out) rectangles in an image. […] Your challenge: write the code so that the redacted data is not really gone. Ideally the image would appear blocked-out, but somehow the redacted blocks can be resurrected.”

Bevor die Glut in dir erlischt
Verlass die Stadt
Die keine ist
Ein neuer Wundbrand in Athen
S’ist an der Zeit endlich zu gehn
— Gustav, Verlass Die Stadt

Electoral Programming, Russ Cox uses dynamic programming to find out “how many ways there were to win the electoral college with a minimal set of states”.

Droopy is a mini-web server whose sole purpose is to let others upload files to your computer. Neat.

Es ist Sommer in Wien
Und nicht Stalingrad, sagt er
Ich weiss, sag ich,
Und trotzdem ist mir kalt
— Gustav, Verlass Die Stadt

Lemons. by dirtchick

A Skeptical Manifesto.

Lazy Bastards, how we read online.