Belle de Jour uncloaked herself! She ran a pretty tumbly blog called Methylsalicylate (I love the style) and wrote about autopsies before (more, more).

Jeanne-Claude, Christo’s Collaborator on Environmental Canvas, Is Dead at 74

One Book, Many Readings, on the structure of Choose Your Own Adventure books. Great viz.

“Typocalyse Now?” The Legacy of Jan Tschichold, by John Holbo.

Rory Marinich is back online, journaling and tumbling.

‘The Bottle to Bang’, instructional video on the LHC.

troff and friends, talk by meillo.

VertexDB is a high performance graph database server that supports automatic garbage collection. It uses the HTTP protocol for requests and JSON for it’s response data format and the API is inspired by the FUSE filesystem API plus a few extra methods for queries and queues.

Txr, a Pattern Matching Utility for Convenient Text Extraction. Obscure.

mace.bundle, a very Unixy MH-style alternative mail reader by Robert Boyd.

cuultralight, a single file C++ unit testing framework by Michael Feathers.

Chromium User Scripts, “Current Chromium development builds have rudimentary support for user scripts.” Way to go.

Niiu, meine eigene Tageszeitung, die Idee hatte ich grob schon 2005.

tumblr is a bottle of wine…

The Philosophy of Kissing

MUJI & LEGO

Scroll Clock

Go, a systems programming language, from Google by Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, Russ Cox et al.(!) expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected, BSD licensed. Not unlike Limbo, but compiles (quickly!) to native code. Something can be learned here.

On Mathematical Diseases, and More on Mathematical Diseases, lists theorems many mathematicians failed proving.

A 50 Lines-of-Code JavaScript Animation Framework: Say Hello to Émile, by Thomas Fuchs.

Proof Pearl: Revisiting the Mini-Rubik in Coq (PS), by Laurent Théry.

The General Pirate License, “I have come across many situations where I wanted to share an idea but never wanted the idea to be attributed to me…” Should be non-viral though.

Khromax, a simple but good game for in-browser and the iPhone.

How to make fractals without a computer (YouTube), I love feedback.

Hamster in Tutu Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider

The Adventures of Lil Cthulhu (YouTube), cuuuuute.

Rest of Geocities, my local mirror of a few sites I linked to.

Saving a Historical Record of GeoCities, a special collection at archive.org.

Polizeieinsatz auf der Demo “Freiheit statt Angst”, CCC: “Wir wollen die Ermittlungen der Staatsanwaltschaft durch die Veröffentlichungen dieser Materialien unterstützen, damit die Ermittlungen in einer Art geführt werden, dessen Ergebnis auch wirklich präventiven Charakter hat.”

The Overbite Project, bringing gopherspace back to modern operating systems and browsers.

Who discovered the Icosahedron?, talk by John C. Baez.

sregex implements Pike-style Structural Regular Expressions in Python.

π: a pattern language, “There is only one language construct in π: the pattern.”

Array languages for Lisp programmers, oh the verbosity.

Cantors Diagonalization Proof in Coq

Porting ZFS to NetBSD, work in progress.

Epitome is a deduplication engine written for OpenBSD and is release under the ISC license.

Isolation or Quarantine, an Interview with Dr. Georges Benjamin at BLDG BLOG.

My Packing Master List, what Maggie Mason takes with her.

JSGB, a JavaScript GameBoy Emulator. WJW.

Delaunay Raster are the hot new thing.

Bank Notes, a collection of Bank Robbery Notes.

Last Days of Gourmet

Brain Vodka-Shots