Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
23aug2008
product placements (2008), 70,200 samples in 33 seconds: nightmare for GERMAN RIAA. “If you want to register a song at GEMA (RIAA, ASCAP of Germany) you have to fill in a form for each sample you use, even the tiniest bit. On 12 Sept 08, German Avantgarde musician Johannes Kreidler will—as a live performance event—register a short musical work that contains 70,200 quotations with GEMA using 70,200 forms.” Plain brilliant.
TinyScheme is a lightweight Scheme interpreter that implements as large a subset of R5RS as was possible without getting very large and complicated. Less than 5kLOC and easy to extend.
Any asshole can open up a museum
Put all of the things he loves on display
So everyone could see them
The house, a car, a thoughtful wife
Ordinary moments in his ordinary life
— Rilo Kiley, It’s A Hit
Notebooks for Left-handed, Right-handed and Ambidextrous People, “For my notebooks, I redesigned traditional looks and made the ruled lines slightly slanted in right angles and direction, through research, for the right-handed, left-handed and ambidextrous people.”
Higher-Order Mixfix Syntax for Representing Mathematical Notation and its Parsing (PS), dissertation by Stephan Albert Missura. This is really awesome.
Tail Call Optimization doesn’t exist in Haskell, this raises a good point.
Surfraw provides a fast unix command line interface to a variety of popular WWW search engines and other artifacts of power. It reclaims google, altavista, babelfish, dejanews, freshmeat, research index, slashdot and many others from the false-prophet, pox-infested heathen lands of html-forms, placing these wonders where they belong, deep in unix heartland, as god loving extensions to the shell.
How To Launch Software, by Aaron Swartz.
The Freehacker’s Union, by Zed Shaw. “Business Is Killing The Art Of The Hack”.
Wake up in the morning
I shall wake up and so shall you
And I wake up, the sun is beautiful
And it is warming you and I
Fragile as we lie
— Eisley, One Day I Slowly Floated Away
Our writing is now complete!, Real World Haskell goes to copy edit.
Sex and the Olympic city, “Tomorrow night thousands of young men and women with the most fit, toned bodies in the world will mingle for the last time before they fly home. What might they get up to?” Who wouldn’t.
Structurally Recursive Descent Parsing (PDF), slides by Nils Anders Danielsson, joint work with Ulf Norell. “Rule out left recursion by restricting the types.”