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