Anarchaia

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

02oct2008

Let’s build an MP3-decoder! in Haskell. “The end result is a decoder that is inefficient and not standards compliant, but with hopefully readable code.”

Skunk Bomb?, Israel Takes Chemical Warfare to a Stinky New Level, WJW.

IMG_454920080926-27_高美溼地 by 台北猿人

He’ll take you up, he’ll bring you down,
He’ll plant your feet back firmly on the ground.
He flies so high, he swoops so low,
He knows exactly which way hes gonna go.
Timothy Leary. Timothy Leary.
— Moody Blues, Legend Of A Mind

A Sysadmin’s Unixersal Translator (Rosetta Stone), or: What do they call that in this world? Very useful. Covers AIX, A/UX, DG/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NCR Unix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Reliant, SCO OpenServer, Solaris, SunOS 4, Tru64, Ultrix, and UNICOS.

The Credit Crisis and the Bailout in Plain English, by Liar. “It will explain the role of FNMA (Fannie Mae) and FHLMC (Freddie Mac), mortgage-backed securities, Credit Default Swaps (CDS), Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDO), mark to market, prime, subprime, a run, the Community Reinvestment Act, and liquidity in the current situation. These terms will be introduced as gently as possible.”

I see the ships of a friendly fleet
And a song so sweetly sounding
And gentle souls who think not to defeat
As across the waves they are bounding
— Gene Clark, 1975

My concerns about the Senate financial services bill, without commentary, by Gregory Brown.

IMG_0350 by uribou_73

The iPhone Book is in Beta!, now that the NDA fell.

RFC 5321 and RFC 5322 now obsolete RFC 2821 (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) and RFC 2822 (Internet Message Format). I wouldn’t have expected that.