The Leech lattice is a particular lattice Λ in 24-dimensional Euclidean space, R24 discovered by John Leech in 1965. “Cohn and Kumar showed that it gives the densest lattice packing of balls in 24-dimensional space.”
Andy Tanenbaum hasn’t learned anything, the Plan 9 team wrote in 1992. Worth reading.
Turing Machine implemented in Conway’s Game of Life, I knew it was possible, but never saw one.
When Wikis Go Bad, “I decided to write down some of my thoughts about why sometimes wikis are phenomenally successful, and others just never seem to work.”
mod_asis, provides the handler send-as-is which causes Apache to send the document without adding most of the usual HTTP headers. This can be used to send any kind of data from the server, including redirects and other special HTTP responses, without requiring a cgi-script or an nph script. Wonderful! (Also see mod_cern_meta.)
Ich möchte Gott sein und Gebete hören
und meine Schutz versagen können
und Menschenherzen zunichte brennen
und Seelenopfer begehren.
Und möchte Erde, Welt und All vernichten
und Trümmerhaufen über Trümmer schichten.
Dann müßte ein Neues entstehn
und das ließ ich wieder vergehn.
— Erich Mühsam, Ich möchte Gott sein…
A programmer’s view of the Universe, part 2: Mario Kart, by Steve Yegge.
division by zero, by Ted Chiang.
Tiny $10 Microscope, a high-resolution, lens-free microscope fits on a dime-size chip.