Mapping Reality (PDF), An artist-mathematician illuminates a world of infinite beauty. Artworks and text by Lun-Yi Tsai. Recommended.
Pseudomathematics, “When you’re wrong in maths, you’re wrong. You’re wholly, one hundred percent wrong.”
As the young ones
Begin their wandering
Through crack houses, leveraged buyouts, TV news, legal claims, and taxes
With one eye on the missiles, and one on the obituaries
Waiting for the children of the Cold War to die
— Dan Bern, Children of the Cold War
New HTTP Parser, by Ry Dahl. This guy makes fine stuff: “It requires 124 bytes per HTTP connection, makes zero allocations, has no dependencies, is nearly optimal in its use of CPU instructions, interruptible on any character, has extensive tests, and is MIT licensed.”
The Dijkstra-Zonneveld ALGOL 60 compiler for the Electrologica X1 rewritten in ~2KLOC Pascal.
How Xanadu Works: technical overview, by Micah Dubinko.
Programming with impossible functions, or how to get along without monads.
Go Data Structures, explained by Russ Cox.
Will Dylan Survive?, by Lawrence J. Epstein. “It is hard to imagine that Bob Dylan will be forgotten in fifty years.” At Dylan Watch.
Narrative and Neutral Milk Hotel, “In The Aeroplane Over The Sea” is an excellent album.
Learning From Tijuana, “From the graveyards of corporate architecture to the informal settlements of Latin America.”
Rotating Corpse, is a blog created to share all of the old magazines, book covers, family photos, film stills, clothes and much, much more. NSFW.
Confessions of a Long-Distance sailor, “An account of an around-the-world solo sail in a 31-foot boat, 1988–1991”, by Paul Lutus.
How I Hire Programmers, by Aaron Swartz.