Project Hail, a project to provide language-neutral, OS-neutral, highly available distributed computing services that others may use to build cloud computing applications. Written in C by experienced kernel hackers, GPL2ed. Yay!

Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. “Hacking”, by Paul Buchheit. “Wherever there are systems, there is the potential for hacking, and there are systems everywhere.”

The loss of ZFS, excellent analysis by Lous Gerbarg on why ZFS isn’t a good fit for Apple.

djb, an ode to “the greatest programmer in the history of the world”, by Aaron Swartz.

The Risks and Benefits of Teaching Purely Functional Programming in First Year, “We argue that teaching purely functional programming as such in freshman courses is detrimental to both the curriculum as well as to promoting the paradigm.”

Ephemerisle, a sort-of-Burning-Man-like event for people who, instead of frying in deserts, prefer to drown in rivers, Danny O’Brien says.

pkgin, a tool to manage pkgsrc binary packages, apt/yum like.

A peek at Categories, a new Scheme object system.

Open-Access Text Archive at archive.org. 1,699,707 items!

A literary appreciation of the Olson/Zoneinfo/tz database, wonderful.

No Direction, Period. “Bob Dylan actually wrote every popular song in the last 35 years, every single one.”

How to shoot an anvil 200 feet into the air, WJW. I think I have a new hobby.

Succu Dry Sex in a Can, the world’s first vampire inspired sex toy for men.
NSFW.

Aesthetics of Commutative Diagrams

Thousands Protest Global Warming

Alice Temple, New York City, 2008

I Seriously Want This Bathtub

The Six-Lesson Schoolteacher, by John Taylor Gatto, New York State Teacher of the Year, 1991.

Online papers on consciousness is a directory of 5200 free online papers on consciousness in philosophy and in science, and of related topics in the philosophy of mind.

Modernism and the little magazines, “The literary journal is dead. Long live the literary journal.”

Nanni Balestrini »Tristano«, “Vier Jahrzehnte später erlaubt die digitale Drucktechnik, das Buch so zu veröffentlichen, wie der Autor es ursprünglich geplante hatte: Per Computer werden aus den 30 Abschnitten der 10 Kapitel jeweils 20 ausgewählt und in eine neue, zufällige Reihenfolge gebracht.”

Girih generates quasiperiodic tilings with ten-fold rotational symmetry by recursively subdividing three shapes in the manner shown below.

The Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity, 1.) Don’t keep a schedule.

Workshop on Organizing Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia for Computer Systems

fugitive.vim, a Git wrapper “so awesome, it should be illegal.”

Dyl-Time Theme Radio Hour, is a parody of Bob Dylan’s wonderful radio show on XM called “Theme Time Radio Hour”.

Thought-experiment mashups, by Simon Tatham.

Kashiwa Mystery Cafe, you get what the person before you ordered.

Mystery Google, you get what the person before you searched for.

Project CCNx is an open source project exploring the next step in networking, based on one fundamental architectural change: replacing named hosts with named content as the primary abstraction. Documentation. (I wish it was BSD/MIT licensed…)

DRAM Errors in the Wild: A Large-Scale Field Study (PDF) at Google, by Bianca Schroeder, Eduardo Pinheiro, and Wolf-Dietrich Weber.

Kisses from maryrosecook compares the magnitude of stuff. Like one guided missile destroyer costs as much as three million fluffy kittens.

Elastic lists, a fluid, rich interface for facet browsing.

An Image Problem, Gilad Bracha on Smalltalk-style images.

History of the KOM Computer Conferencing System

find(1) revisited, walk(1) and sor(1) try to replace it.

apvlv, a PDF viewer with vim look’n’feel.

1 million fps video of bullet impacts

Movie Posters for Minimalists

How round is your circle?

RISOTTO IS NOT THAT HARD

Regretsy, worst of Etsy.

Bob Dylan

The 2009 Ig Nobel Prize Winners, my favourite this year: “PEACE PRIZE: Stephan Bolliger, Steffen Ross, Lars Oesterhelweg, Michael Thali and Beat Kneubuehl of the University of Bern, Switzerland, for determining—by experiment—whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.”

Networking Named Content, by Van Jacobson, D. K. Smetters, James D. Thornton, Michael Plass, Nick Briggs, and Rebecca L. Braynard. “We present Content-Centric Networking (CCN) which takes content as a primitive—decoupling location from identity, security and access, and retrieving content by name. Using new approaches to routing named content, derived heavily from IP, we can simultaneously achieve scalability, security and performance.”

Das Hackerbrausenblog beschäftigt sich mit der magischen Welt koffeinhaltiger und anderweitig bewusstseinserweiternder Erfrischungs- und Genußgetränke und deren Symphatisantensumpf.

Stadlzeit, einfach nur genial. Lesebefehl!

Prince Rupert’s Drops are a glass curiosity created by dripping hot molten glass into cold water. The very high residual stress within the drop gives rise to unusual qualities, such as the ability to withstand a blow from a hammer on the bulbous end without breaking, while the drops will disintegrate explosively if the tail end is even slightly damaged.

gselt watches the X selection and displays a menu of actions that can be done with the text that is currently selected. (A kind of plumb(1) alternative.)

LYSP, a tiny, lightweight Lisp interpreter closely following the tradition of the earliest implementations. By Ian Piumarta.

PDoc is an inline comment parser and JavaScript documentation generator written in Ruby.

REST Client, simple Ruby DSL for accessing REST resources. Nice!

Nginx Internals, slides and (chinese) video by Joshua Zhu.

The Self Handbook, now HTMLized.

Song To Dan, by the Union Maid. “Hey Dan Bern, I wrote you a song, …”

CD-Platine als Musikinstrument, very nice!

twisted pencil, recommended geeky math comic.

Project BLT, Make. Grow. Forage. A chart.

Business Reply Mail, must see.

Night owls have more lovers

Es gibt keinen Sex!

Eel slap