ICANN Board Approves Dot-XXX Top-level Domain for Porn, will the iPhone block these by default?

What Broke My Father’s Heart, read this.

Oliver Byrne’s edition of Euclid, “What distinguishes Byrne’s edition is that he attempts to present Euclid’s proofs in terms of pictures, using as little text—and in particular as few labels—as possible. What makes the book especially striking is his use of colour.” Awesome presentation and typography.

Giving Great Talks: A Mashup of Edward Tufte and Jared Spool.

Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte at A List Apart. CSS3 media queries make fluid layouts easy to do (cf. the new Hicksdesign).

The “Clockwise/Spiral Rule” enables any C programmer to parse in their head any C declaration.

ZeroMQ: an introduction, very nice overview of the really simple ZeroMQ API.

OpenSCAD is a script-driven software for creating solid 3D CAD objects.

jj is a simple FIFO and filesystem based Jabber/XMPP client. jj is inspired by the ii IRC client.

Booting Up with Salaryman, OS/2 fanfic.

Brahms und Ravel on Vuvuzelas

Vuvuzela Hits

The Problem

Scan Toys

Letter to a Young PL Enthusiast, by Manuel Simoni.

PracTeX Journal 2010/1, lots of new articles.

ATA Secure Erase with hdparm.

Julio the Sewer Diver, “Most people, when I tell them that I’m a diver, they think, “Oh wow, that’s beautiful—the ocean and the beach.” But no, we are divers of the sewage.”

NullpoMino, an excellent, configurable Tetris clone written in Java.

loved, experimental Flash platformer with multiple endings.

Calvin & Steve Jobs

Vi, Emacs, Notepad

Vuvuzela Radio

TrivBZZZZium

19th August is Whyday! “Set aside that day to remember Why’s contributions to our community and culture by hacking just for the fun and joy of it.”

An Oral History of Unix, 13 transcripts of interviews with the original people.

Erik Naggum on Atlas Shrugged

LLDB is a next generation, high-performance debugger. It is built as a set of reusable components which highly leverage existing libraries in the larger LLVM Project, such as the Clang expression parser and LLVM disassembler.

odt2txt is a command-line tool which extracts the text out of OpenDocument Texts produced by OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, KOffice and others. Finally one can read that crap!

edway is an interactive text-mode editor for audio files, in the style of ed(1).

The Silver Dream Machine: The synthesizer that accidentally changed the world, long article about the TB-303.

Akihabara, classic Arcade games written in JavaScript (among them good Tetris ports).

Readability Updated: An End To The Yank Of The Hyperlink

Potsdamer Platz 1997-1999, ultra long exposure.

HTML5 vs Newton

what the hex

Morphic 3 is a research and development project aimed at building the next standard in 2D user interfaces. It will be fully zoomeable, and will do mathematically proved alias-free rendering. Rather interesting.

Books from the Library of Erik Naggum (PDF), you can order them, but its also interesting just for curiosity.

A Nest of Classes, Gilad Bracha on Beta, Java and Newspeak’s nested classes.

Milawa is a “self-verifying” theorem prover for an ACL2-like logic.

Databases are categories, and joins are arrow composition.

The Barrelfish Operating System, worth another look.

DER SPIEGEL auf dem iPad: grafische Schlachtplatte

sketchpad brings the power of Etherpad to the Processing community.

1-Bit Symphony, by Tristan Perich. “A complete electronic circuit-programmed by the artist and assembled by hand-plays the music through a headphone jack mounted into the case itself.”

The Shortest Possible Game of Monopoly: 21 Seconds

Hast seen the White Whaaaaaale?

Stonehenge at Night, 1944