Qualitätsheulsusenismus, Felix Schwenzels weiser Beitrag zum “Werbungsstreit”. Danke!

Trigonometric Delights, book by Eli Maor. Full text online.

Well-Placed Pixels, a visual record of beautiful software. Apple-centric.

Todd Fisher’s flickr stream contains raw urbanism, sometimes NSFW.

Mayumi Haryoto interview, fantastic illustrations.

Fifty foot shadows has excellent wallpapers.

Alltock—Alltop Procrastinator’s Clock runs somewhere between on-time and fifteen minutes fast to keep you from procrastinating.

Cable clips, genius!

The Peaches That Were Left

A computational perspective on set theory, by Terrence Tao.

Karl Lagerfeld, interview by Bruce LaBruce. Recommended.

Zip Files All The Way Down, Russ Cox has a long quine post.

MessagePack is a binary-based efficient object serialization library. It enables to exchange structured objects between many languages like JSON. But unlike JSON, it is very fast and small. Looks sane, please adapt.

Jsawk is like awk, but for JSON. You work with an array of JSON objects read from stdin, filter them using JavaScript to produce a results array that is printed to stdout.

Mozilla wants to update the MPL, I propose s/PL/IT/.

Breakthrough in sewing needles, really clever.

Hyper-Realistic Acrylic Body Painting, WJW.

KEKS IST FORTSCHRITT

Tounge splitting diary

Regular Expression Matching in the Wild, Russ Cox third and final article in the series.

GFS: Evolution on Fast-Forward, Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan discuss the origin and evolution of the Google File System.

The Curated Web, The American Prospect on Tumblr. Well written, hits the nail.

Breaking Provably Secure Systems

Digital: A Love story, a multi-platform game: A computer mystery/romance set five minutes into the future of 1988.

kitten: The Text Adventure, fun.

Origami Magic Rose Cube (YouTube).

three color studies, by Tomer Hanuka.

Flickr Flow

My Way

R.I.P. Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous, sad.

HTML WG Working Drafts have been published

Tup is a file-based build system—it inputs a list of file changes and a directed acyclic graph (DAG), then processes the DAG to execute the appropriate commands required to update dependent files. An interesting alternative to make(1).

Social Navigation on the Social Web, Master thesis by Eivind J. Uggedal. Delightfully typset in .

NCSA Mosaic 2.7 source code on Github.

Learn to live without masters.

TITANIC rügt den Presserat

Worst of Friseursalonnamen

QR Code Clock

Nethack, “When it started, I had no idea it would be the game. The game where I would actually get the Amulet of Yendor, bring it all the way up out of the dungeon to the Astral Plane, and present it to my god for the win. No cheating, no hacks, no savegame duplicates, not even any notes taken. Just one run.”

The Lo-Fi Manifesto, by Karl Strolley. “The time has come to reject expensive consumer and prosumer software that hinders the extensibility of digital discourse and limits digital production literacy to programs and file formats that are destined for disruptive upgrades or obsolescence.” (Ironically, better zap the stylesheet.)

Windows Phone 7 Series interface design, Edward Tufte comments.

iPhone’s Missing Feed Reader, a comparison.

Prolog for note-taking, WJW.

Office Worker Hobo Code

Bricks… in… the rain.

Die Internetgesetze

Post-quantum cryptography, “Imagine that it’s fifteen years from now. Somebody announces that he’s built a large quantum computer. RSA is dead. DSA is dead. Elliptic curves, hyperelliptic curves, class groups, whatever, dead, dead, dead. So users are going to run around screaming and say ‘Oh my God, what do we do?’”

Ten Word Wiki is an Encyclopedia for the ADD generation.

colfm is a console, column-oriented file manager written by yours truly.

Freshman’s dream and Sophomore’s dream

Blosics 2, an incredibly annoying, frustrating and highly addictive Flash game.

indoorlandscaping, need a wall of grass?

Stukenborg: Letterpress Dice Print: Iowa6

A forward-looking logarithmic timeline

Don’t Fuck with the Copyright Jesus

Sick of all the on-screen vomiting?

Helvetica Cookie Cutters