Maps of the 2008 US presidential election results
389 years ago…, “Inspired by the genuine progress of this country, I created this typographic mashup of the history of slavery, racism, and the progress of African Americans.” Must see.
Merb 1.0 now released.
Tender Tub made from polyurethene coated foam rubber; not cold and hard like the average bathtub, but soft and warm, and comfortable like a sofa.
tr.im is an URL shortening service with a nice URL.
Strasheela is a highly expressive constraint-based music composition system. The Strasheela user declaratively states a music theory and the computer generates music which complies with this theory.
Wet Hot American Summer, great drawings by Justin Longoz.
The Trouble With Pictures (PDF), excerpt from John Man’s book “Alpha Beta”: “It is an astonishing thing that human beings should be able to see marks on a surface and hear them talk of realities visible and invisible.”
FROSTBURG was a Connection Machine 5 (CM-5) supercomputer used by the NSA to perform higher-level mathematical calculations. The system had a total of 500 billion 32-bit words of memory (~2 terabytes), and could perform at 65.5 gigaflops.
Scientists Turn Tequila into Diamonds, WJW.
Town in Oregon Elects Genderqueer Mayor, why not.
twicl, my 120 loc shell twitter client.
Total Functional Programming, classic paper by D. A. Turner.
What about the natural numbers, by Colin Runciman. “A prime concern in the design of any general purpose programming language should be the ease and safety of working with natural numbers, particularly in conjunction with discrete data structures.” Includes pragmatic definitions to close the natural numbers.
Prediction and Entropy of Printed English, by C. E. Shannon. A very nice experiment.
Greatest common divisor in Coq
A bar walks into a commutative algebraist.