Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17jun2008
The 100 Thing Challenge is my little way to personalize my efforts to “Challenge Stuff” and fight consumerism. “By November 12, 2008 I will only have 100 personal things. I will live with only 100 personal things for one full year, until November 12, 2009.” WJW.
wtop is like “top” for your webserver. How many searches or signups are happening per second? What is the response time histogram for your static files? wtop shows you at a glance. Useful!
On the zeroes of the Riemann zeta function, by Jorma Jormakka. “The paper proves the Riemann Hypothesis.” Hey, at least let me hope it will be as short as this.
There must be something I can dream tonight,
The air is filled with the moves of you,
All the fire is frozen yet still I have the will, ooh, ah.
— Patti Smith, Elegie
bondi is a programming language centred on pattern-matching. It supports functional, imperative, query-based and object-oriented programming styles using a single small evaluator.
PseudoPOD, a POD Extension for Authoring Large Documents.
Boomerang: Resourceful Lenses for String Data (PDF), by Aaron Bohannon, J. Nathan Foster, Benjamin C. Pierce, Alexandre Pilkiewicz, and Alan Schmitt. ” We first propose a collection of bidirectional string lens combinators, based on familiar operations on regular transducers (union, concatenation, Kleene-star) and with a type system based on regular expressions. We then design a new semantic space of dictionary lenses, enriching the lenses of Foster et al. (2007b) with support for two additional combinators for marking “reorderable chunks” and their keys.”
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/06/setting-up-shop-in-apocalypse.htmlSetting Up Shop in the Apocalypse, “What sets the South China Mall apart from [other dead malls], besides its mind-numbing size, is that it never went into decline. The tenants didn’t jump ship; they never even came on board.”
Rohrer sketches on Police Brutality, Immortality, a few new games by Jason Rohrer of Passage fame.
Nach dem Aufstand des 17. Juni
Ließ der Sekretär des Schriftstellerverbands
In der Stalinallee Flugblätter verteilen
Auf denen zu lesen war, daß das Volk
Das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt habe
Und es nur durch verdoppelte Arbeit
zurückerobern könne. Wäre es da
Nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung
Löste das Volk auf und
Wählte ein anderes?
— Bertolt Brecht, Die Lösung
Firefox 3 now officially released.
Pianist Esbjorn Svensson Dead at 44, this makes me really really sad.
Sketching in Code: the Magic of Prototyping, by David Verba. “Use the quickest and most lightweight method that gets you the results you’re after.”
Faux Absolute Positioning, by Eric Sol at A List Apart. “My teammates and I have developed a new positioning approach that gives us the best of both worlds. After quite a bit of experimenting and testing, it’s time to share the technique with the rest of the world and see how we can work together to improve it.”
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