Anarchaia

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

11sep2008

Squeak on the iPhone, “Michael Rueger and John MacIntosh are proud to announce that their Squeak iPhone/Touch port is now available for download. The source code, along with installation instructions and other useful resources, is available at a new website: http://isqueak.org.”

Programming’s Dirtiest Little Secret, Steve Yegge on the importance of touch-typing.

花80 by Yen@Ko

Each link of the chain is choking
But each link of chain can be broken
Each link takes my takes my love away from me
But only your love can set me free
From this chain around my neck
— Dan Bern, Chain Around My Neck

aTypeTrainer4Mac, a pretty nice application to learn touch-typing on OS X. Supports random exercises for many keylayouts as well as text taken from running web browsers (so you actually can read blogs whilst typing them :-).)

Serious damage scenarios for the LHC (PDF).

al3x’s Rules for Computing Happiness, by Alex Payne. I disagree with all points conflicting with Emacs, but else it is fine. ;-)

Lesser-Known Polygons no. 13 by Steed Griffin

Well India and Pakistan
Are thinking of trading nuclear bombs
Israel and the PLO –
Suicide’s the way to go
Meanwhile the lessons of 9-1-1 are clear… Let’s blow up the Middle East… Smoking marijuana aids terrorists… Cuba’s our enemy unless we need a prison camp… John Walker Lindh could be your kid unless we get an economic stimulus package… And let’s get that guy in Cleveland – AL KIDA!
— Dan Bern, Talkin’ Al Kida Blues

A computer verified, monadic, functional implementation of the integral, by Russell O’Connor and Bas Spitters. “We provide a computer verified exact monadic functional implementation of the Riemann integral in type theory. Together with previous work by O’Connor, this maybe seen as the beginning of the realization of Bishop’s vision to use constructive mathematics as a programming language for exact analysis.”

Reverberations, an 8-bit approach to J. S. Bach. “It struck me that, at least in theory, organ pipes should generate quite primitive sound waves. If so, how come a church organ doesn’t sound like a chip tune, which is also built up from simple waveforms? Well, actually it will, if you remove the church.” Impressive.