SXSW 2009 Torrent, featuring a whopping 5 GB of music in 1053 files. Somehow I don’t think we’ll see six word reviews this year but it would be great.
The OpenFire soft processor is an open source Verilog implementation of the Xilinx MicroBlaze.
The b16 Processor is a minimalistic stack processor, inspired by Chuck Moore’s recent work. The original incarnation is 16 bit, byte addressed. There are 32 instructions, each is 5 bits.
The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment, by Thaddeus Golas.
The Year of the Rope: An Interview with Linda Montano & Tehching Hsieh
Salami slicing is a series of many minor actions, often performed by clandestine means, that together results in a larger action that would be difficult or illegal to perform at once. Also see One Piece at a Time*.
Practical Collisions for EnRUPT, too bad. Better bet on CubeHash?.
Field, a development environment for making digital art. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based.
The Diff Match and Patch libraries offer robust algorithms to perform the operations required for synchronizing plain text.
Startups in 13 Sentences, by Paul Graham.
tircd presents twitter as an IRC channel. You can connect to tircd with any IRC client, and twitter as if you were on IRC.