NIST has selected the Second Round Candidates of the SHA-3 Competition, with 14 proposals left (there were 51 in the first round). EnRUPT didn’t make it, neither did MD6. I favourite CubeHash.

The Monad.Reader, Issue 14, featuring “Fun with Morse Code” by Heinrich Apfelmus, “Hieroglyph 2: Purely Functional Information Graphics Revisited”, by Jefferson Heard, and “Lloyd Allison’s Corecursive Queues: Why Continuations Matter”, by Leon P Smith.

dSelf is an extension to the delegation and prototype-based object-oriented language SELF. It adds distributed objects and transparent remote reference resolution to the language. In consequence, dSelf facilitates distributed inheritance and instantiation mechanisms.

How Wolfram Alpha could change software “The upstart “computational knowledge engine” claims its results are original works, raising important questions about software and intellectual property”. A New Kind of Bullshit.

Best of Wikipedia, a tumblr. Close to, but not exactly, my idea of making a Wikipedia-sourced “Schott’s Miscellany”-style blog.

Haypress Creek Weblog, Chuck Moore’s lab journal.

Building and using Self on Linux, by Chris Double.

Methods and Classes, the same?, Adrian Kuhn distills the essentials of BETA.

Alice and Bob, and other cryptographic placeholder names.

String Figures and How to Make Them: A Study of Cat’s Cradle in Many Lands, by Caroline Furness Jayne.

Gibraltar Airport is the only one where the runway actually intersects with a major highway. WJW.

Swedish parents keep 2-year-old’s gender secret, a curious idea, but it probably does the kid more harm than benefit.

All-Purpose Pronoun, I like “sheit”.

Time Sort (Noguchi) Filing System, the magic of ls -ltr.

Bob Dylan “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” Handwritten Working Lyrics

Fundstücke aus der Provinz (1)

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Rejecta Mathematica is a real open access online journal publishing only papers that have been rejected from peer-reviewed journals in the mathematical sciences. The inaugural issue of Rejecta Mathematica is now available!

Practical Reusable Unix Software (PDF), “This book describes a collection of software of a sort that people have known was needed for years, but has been neglected.” (Has a nice part on Unix shell history, too.)

Attack of the Clones, by James Noble and Brian Foote. “This paper presents implementations of a selection of the Design Patterns in Self, and investigates the differences between their implementations in Self compared with other object-oriented programming languages.”

The Fleet Architecture, slides by Ivan Sutherland. “Fleet puts the programmer firmly in charge of the most costly resource, communication, instead of in charge of the arithmetic and logical resources that are now almost free. Fleet treats arithmetic and logical operations as side effects of where the programmer sends data.”

I Know It Is Possible To Live With Zero Money, Abundantly, “How? Because it’s happening to me, just as it’s happening to ants and deer and slugs and sparrows and bacteria and atoms and galaxies.” (And I like the answer to FAQ #19.)

Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone? (PDF), by Tom DeMarco.

b[lac]k, a blog by Benjamin Black. (If you know of other Trivium installations, tell me.)

Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic.

My Life Offline, Aaron Swartz reports.

Big Huge Thesaurus, Synonyms, antonyms, and rhymes (oh my!).

There, I fixed it, epic kludges and jury rigs.

61 essential postmodern reads: an annotated list

100 Years of Design Manifestos

Drunk People Yoga Positions

How to scan a cat and other subjects, “Simple, clever, and still thriving on its 10th anniversary, MetaFilter proves a good conversation isn’t hard to have online.”

Arnold’s cat map is a chaotic map from the torus into itself, named after Vladimir Arnold, who demonstrated its effects in the 1960s using an image of a cat.

Paul Constant Reviews Twitter, in less than 140 chars per paragraph.

minma, a minimalist tumblr. Very fitting theme as well.

Hidim turns a torrent into a regular PNG image.

Rc — The Plan 9 Shell, by Tom Duff. It’s so well done, a shame it’s not popular.

How to read Infinite Jest, by Jason Kottke.

How to read Infinite Jest, by Matt Bucher, Nick Maniatis, and Kathleen Fitzpatrick. Pondering to read it as soon as I have time.

Minimalist Orgy, “Where respectability meets decadence.”

We Are All Writers Now

A Cloud Of Strawberries

Rusty is a homosexual

Search Engine Comparison, Kragen Sitaker does some very detailed analysis, now switches to Yahoo Search.

Mythryl deftly combines C speed, Lisp power, and Ruby convenience with the critical new ingredients of Hindley-Milner typing, state of the art generics and just the right level of side effects. SML/NJ based.

nip2 aims to be about halfway between Excel and Photoshop. You don’t directly edit images—instead, like a spreadsheet, you build relationships between objects.

Self Assembling Processes (PDF), by Dimitris Vyzovitis.

Phosphorous, The Popular Lisp (PDF), by Joseph F. Miklojcik III.

Citing search in a book when the content won’t be released, the Internet never forgets.

This is the house, the house of confusion.

Awib is a brainfuck compiler, 100% written in brainfuck.

Goto in Javascript, because we can!

Determining List Steepness in a Homomorphism

Surgical Nightmares, “There is, I find, a fascination with outdated methods of medicine.”

List of self-sufficient webcomics

The blue and the green

The Rhetoric of the Hyperlink, “The hyperlink is the most elemental of the bundle of ideas that we call the Web.”

Jorn Barger, the NewsPage Network, and the Emergence of the Weblog Community, by Rudolf Ammann, at Hypertext 2009.

I Killed a Girl Called Reality, an interview with Nina Roth and Paolo Cirio from check-check.org.

Rest Area History.Org, “[E]arly in their developmental history, design aesthetics moved in the tradition of roadside architecture that dominated American highways in previous decades, and safety rest area sites emerged as unique and colorful expressions of regional flavor and modern architectural design.”

A Ban on Imports, Gilad Bracha on how to construct software.

kiama, a Scala library for language processing, based on ideas of Stratego/XT.

autocutsel syncronizes X11’s PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD selections. Essential.

Automata and the A-D-E classification

A Terrifically Bad Idea, “The plan: 10 cafés, 10 macchiatos, one morning, by bike.”

A Real Doll, by A.M. Homes. “Three afternoons a week, while my sister is at dance class, I take Barbie away from Ken. I’m practicing for the future.”

The Abolition Of Work, by Bob Black.

Steiner from mars has nice sketches.

Queens, a game about domestic violence.