27C3: 7th Chaos Communication Congress, I’ll be there, call DECT 6765, drop me a mail or a Twitter direct message.

The Blast Shack, Bruce Sterling on Assange and Wikileaks. Required reading.

apenwarr implements djb’s redo in Python, and put it on github. Awesome, check it out.

SML On Stilts is a framework for robust web development based on multistage programming. Both SML/NJ and MLton are supported.

Pixel art scaling algorithms, cool results.

Minimalist effect in the maximalist market, cool packaging redesigns.

Russian art anarchists explain themselves

Saddam Hussein’s Blood Qur’an

Unicode Holiday Xmas Tree

Behold the pale horse…

A New Theory of Awesomeness and Miracles, by James Bridle.

Handbook of Mathematical Functions, by Abramowitz and Stegun. Also as PDF (47MB) and a vastly improved web version.

Visualizing TCP, and HTTP request visualization.

Weltliteratur, auf einem einzigen Blatt Papier gesetzt in 3 Pt. und gedruckt auf einem 130g Alster-Werkdruck-Poster im Format 70 x 100 cm.

git-annex allows managing files with git, without checking the file contents into git. While that may seem paradoxical, it is useful when dealing with files larger than git can currently easily handle. (But why oh why in Haskell?)

PGP / GnuPG / OpenPGP Message Encryption in JavaScript, can we have that in webmail?

The Mathematica One-Liner Competition had nice results.

Visualizing Pi

Manifestoist Manifesto, “Artists who don’t release manifestos aren’t artists.”

The works of Khalil Gibran, worth diving into.

For the record…, “I used to care a lot about people asking me for permission to use my photos. It doesn’t matter to me anymore.”

Sex On Mars: Pregnancy, Fetal Development, and Sex In Outer Space, by Rhawn Joseph.

Necronomicox, toys designed for the dark side of your psyche. NSFW.

The Top Twenty Internet Lists of 2010

Chaos Computer Club fordert Informationsfreiheit im Netz, “Denn Internet-Provider sollen und dürfen, genau wie die Post, Angebot und Transport beliebiger Inhalte nicht verhindern. Der CCC ruft dazu auf, diese Freiheit zu nutzen und fordert gleichzeitig die deutschen und europäischen Internet-Anbieter auf, sich nicht von ungesetzlichen Drohungen einschüchtern zu lassen.”

Kriegsgerät Serverplatz, Udo Vetter zu Wikileaks: “Ein Staatsgeheimnis ist auch nur so lange ein Staatsgeheimnis, wie es geheim ist. Bereits veröffentlichte Informationen sind deshalb kein Geheimnis mehr.”

Every Day Is Repeal Day, “The National Prohibition Act, passed in 1919 and enacted in 1920, was repealed after what must’ve been the 13 most surreal years to be alive and in America.”

SHA-3 finalists have been announced, CubeHash is out.

Yacc is Not Dead, “Reports of yacc’s death, at least in this case, are greatly exaggerated.”

Fragments from Wikileaks! The Musical

Who can define “values”? Anyone?

TeX StackExchange

Desaturated Santa

Bankrun 2010, December the 7th, 2010: Let’s withdraw our money!

The HaLVM, is a port of the GHC runtime system for Haskell to barebones Xen.

The J1 Forth CPU, “A complete J1 with 16Kbytes of RAM fits easily on a small Xilinx FPGA. A complete system including the TCP/IP stack fits in under 8K bytes.”

Finding Your Way with Static Maps, didn’t know Google Maps had such a nice API.

Cram is a functional testing framework for command line applications based on Mercurial’s unified test format. Neat.

First Introspection, 2010.12, the state of the Self language.

4th Amendment Wear, a way to protest those intrusive TSA X-ray scanners without saying a word.

Notation And Thinking

Missing the point of WikiLeaks, there is no turning back.

Kim Jong-Il looking at things