Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
05sep2008
I accidentally a fleshlight, PNSFW.
Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome. All Google code in there is BSD licensed, and they got a pretty efficient JavaScript implementation by Lars Bak there.
Ruxtape is a clone of opentape, written with Camping and Jquery.
The Best of Creative Computing Volume 1, edited by David Ahl, published 1976. Full scans. A lovely book.
And it’s driving me to drink
and it’s causing me to think
you’re not alone
— Devotchkas, Ocean of Lust
The Dynabook, Javascript, and Real Computer Literacy, Danny O’Brien: “I think that if some of us applied the same dedication to teaching programming, we’d have the same percentage of coding literacy: a future generation who could wield every part of the computing experience as well as they could a pen.”
Foreign functions, VM primitives and Mirrors, Gilad Bracha: “An issue that crops up in systems based on virtual machine is: what are the primitives provided by the VM and how are they represented?”
Better, Merlin Mann: “Politics, celebrity gossip, business headlines, tech punditry, odd news, and user-generated content. These are the chew toys that have made me sad and tired and cynical.”
Phineas Gage – Unravelling the myth, “Could you survive a small crowbar passing completely through your head? Most psychologists would answer ‘Yes’: almost all of them learned that Phineas Gage did.”
The Invention of the Christian Videogame, by Delirium. “With the widespread success of Christian-themed videogames like Left Behind, apparently created for combinations of monetary and religious-proselytization-of-our-bizarre-take-on-apocalyptic-Christianity reasons, the subgenre of “Christian videogames” is now pretty well entrenched.”
BuildBot is a system to automate the compile/test cycle required by most software projects to validate code changes. Has a nice waterfall view.
Django 1.0 released!, “No, you’re not hallucinating, it’s really here.”
Presentation Files of RailsConf Europe 2008.
Paper tigers and hidden dragons, by Roy T. Fielding. “I do think there is a lot to be learned from using different interaction styles and true stream-oriented protocols (the kind that don’t care about lost packets), but this FriendFeed example is ridiculous. It took me less than 30 seconds to design a better solution using nothing more than HTTP, and that while sitting in the middle of a conference session.”
The Cutest Thing Ever, “I think we can all easily agree that the cutest thing ever is a kitten hugging a rabbit, up in a tree, and they are scared because they don’t know how to get down, but at least they’ve got each other.” Must read.
Doing letrec with Lambdas, good discussion on letrec desugaring on LtU.
Untangling with Continued Fractions: Part 3.
I wanted to believe in rock’n’roll stars
I wanted to believe in contemporary art
I wanted to aspire to a higher path
But there’s no higher path
— The Indelicates, We Hate The Kids
A DSLR Catechism, What camera do ‘fools’ buy? — Yours.
Real World Haskell, by Bryan O’Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen. “This is the online home of the book “Real World Haskell”. We make the content freely available online. If you like it, please buy a copy.”
Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.
Menticulation of Diet Coke in Microgravity!, “As described in a previous post, the hypothesis that we wanted to test was that convection of the soda was an important part of the whole reaction; under normal gravity, bubbles formed around the mentos rise up through the soda, allowing more soda to come in contact with the candy, and thus more bubbles form. However, in microgravity, there’s no “up”, so any bubbles that form will just stay near the mento, and will in fact keep new cola from reaching it.”
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