Organizing Functional Code For Parallel Execution (PDF), slides for a talk by Guy Steele. “Get rid of cons!”

Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists

fab.js is a Javascript DSL for building async web apps. Really nice, uses node.js.

Smart HTTP Support at Github!

Android – Now On The iPhone, finally porn for them too.

The Answer, My Friend, introducing “Your Best Bob Dylan Album Calculator.”

What Ever Happened to the Book?

Girl Fuck, an introduction to girl-on-girl loving. NSFW comic.

Gummi Bear Surgery

TO-DO TATTOO

ClangBSD is a branch of FreeBSD that aims at integrating clang into FreeBSD, replacing GCC as a system compiler.

Ruby Best Practices, full book now available for free.

Pharo 1.0 has been released.

How can C Programs be so Reliable?, good read. Also see the discussion at LtU (and the C Koans).

dwb: dynamic web browser, minimalist browser, styled like dwm, with vi keybindings. Early, but promising.

A Heavy’s 2fort Adventure (YouTube), a machinima choose-your-own adventure featuring Team Fortress 2.

Every Time Zone, never warp your brain with time zone math again.

What David Foster Wallace Circled in His Dictionary

Food Porn Daily

Das Durcheinandertagebuch, Anarchaia schaffts in die taz.

Richard Dawkins calls for arrest of Pope Benedict XVI

vfuncs is a library for semi-functional style coding with vector verbs in ANSI C. Inspired partly by K, Q and other functional languages, and the open source tool R.

Uki is a fast and simple JavaScript user interface toolkit for desktop-like web applications.

sgrep (structured grep) is a tool for searching and indexing text, SGML,XML and HTML files and filtering text streams using structural criteria.

Introduction to nginx.conf scripting, powerful!

Derrida: An Autothanatography, by Marco Roth (from 2004, really).

Visual Aesthetics in Early Computing (1950-80), lovely.

Oppugn.us, new rants by Zed Shaw and others.

Calamities of Nature, a webcomic.

The 36 Rules of Life

Pixels (Flash video.)

What the iPad is Missing, is good typography.

iPad hacked to run Newton OS

Apple’s iPad Is Newton 7.0

Burr Tools, a toolkit for making and solving 3D puzzles. Creates RepRap ready output!

Hakyll is a Haskell library for generating static sites, mostly aimed at small-to-medium sites and personal blogs. It is written in a very configurable way and uses an xmonad-like DSL for configuration.

Pyncp, Python Network Copy is intended to be a python port/rewrite of fefe’s “ncp—a fast file copy tool for LANs”. Just works.

Burka flashing, NSFW.

Rainbow book

iBookend

People, their digital stuff, and time: opportunities, challenges, and life-logging Barbie (PDF), excellent slides by Cathy Marshall on backing up and forgetting.

pwnat, pronounced “poe-nat”, is a tool that allows any number of clients behind NATs to communicate with a server behind a separate NAT with no port forwarding and no DMZ setup on any routers in order to directly communicate with each other. The server does not need to know anything about the clients trying to connect.

April Fool Result, a proof of a simple mathematical fact using much harder mathematics than needed.

Proof of negation and proof by contradiction are not the same.

New World Order, “Artist Shannon Rankin does amazing things with maps.”

A WorkLife FrameWork for Mathematica, turns Mathematica into a PIM… and more.

Treesheets, Free Form Data Organization. Nice idea.

Conglomerate, WYSIWYG XML editor.

The Big Caption, wherein jokes and statements are made using typography.

Motorized Ice Cream Cone Holder, WJW.