Solving The Hacker News Problem, Alex Payne: “Copy MetaFilter.” (That implies: no voting?)

FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE Announcement, also updated mfsBSD images (recommended for installation) and EC2 images.

A quick tour of my desktop, Chris Siebenmann finally posts screenshots. Hooray.

pcc 1.0 release, more C compilers! (also)

Handling my music collection with git-annex, interesting approach.

no-wm, use X11 without a window manager.

5x9 font, quite legible.

88 Constellations for Wittgenstein, Flash ahead, but interesting.

Where did the stack go?, “The IBM 704 didn’t have a stack.”

LIVE FREE OR DIE, by Dan Tague. Folded dollar notes.

Sean Cheetham: Classic Portraits of Strange People

Shady Characters, “The secret life of punctuation.”

Gimme Shelter, tracks in isolation.

Pre-Chewed Pencils

Google X-ray

The Avogadro Project, “The proposition of the Avogadro Project is to redefine the kilogram in terms of the Avogadro constant. … The nominal diameter of a 1 kg Si sphere is 93.6 mm. In order to obtain an accuracy of 0.01 ppm in volume, the diameter must be known to a range of 0.6 nm.”

The Cognitive Style of Unix, “One of the most deeply held beliefs in the culture of *nix is that the steep learning curve pays off.”

Unbound DNS Server, “OpenBSD is contemplating replacing BIND with the Unbound recursive DNS server and the NSD authoritative DNS server.” They should also go Postfix.

Scientific Presentations with LaTeX, using KOMA-Script(!) instead of Beamer. Pretty easy.

SoyWiki turns Vim into a powerful, lean, and fast wiki. Really nice.

An early LISP program (circa Feb. 1960), what a mess. :)

Abstract Heresies, blog by Joe Marshall on Lispy things.

mu is a Maildir indexer based on Xapian.

Gallium has a melting temperature of about 85 degrees Fahrenheit.

Tractatus Digito-Philosophicus

Akzidenz vs. Helvetica

Chocolate

Pixelfari

musl, a new standard library to power a new generation of Linux-based devices. Very promising and very readable code. Also see musl history.

Convore a new Web-based chat with JSON API. (I hope there will be good CLI clients soon, as well as Irssi and Pigin integration.)

Chibi-Scheme is a very small but mostly complete R5RS Scheme implementation using a reasonably fast custom VM.

Whistlepig is a minimalist realtime full-text search index.

Programming a Problem-Oriented-Language, by Charles H. Moore (June 1970). “This is an unpublished book I wrote long ago. Just after I’d written the first versions of Forth.” A treasure trove.

FuckFlickr is open-source image gallery software that won’t narc you out. “No database required; just upload it and put images in the data directory.” Uses PHP. Also flickr-lube, UpFuckr.

RFC 4843, “An IPv6 Prefix for Overlay Routable Cryptographic Hash Identifiers (ORCHID).” These things will be awesome.

Breaking the Web with hash-bangs, awful.

Divine Invention: An interview with Larry Wall, by Erik Davis (1999).

tzsh, a new shell, by Paul Haahr (1993). Hilarious.

Why Store Mail in Git

The Lisp keyboards

Marriage and the Fibonaughty Sexquence

Where was the Nighthawks Diner?

Julian Assange Coloring Book

Bacon as thermal lance, WJW.

Corset X-Rays (1908).

Metagames: Games About Games, big compilation by Andy Baio.

Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, nicely TeXed Side-by-Side-by-Side Edition by Kevin C. Klement.

An Editorial Nightmare, “An editor for Dalkey Archive’s Best European Fiction 2011 seems to have decided to improve Mima Simić’s story, “My Girlfriend”.” Ouch.

The Coenfographic, “I decided to try my hand at mapping out the Coen filmography and map out the most prevailing actors throughout the years by film.”

IPv6 dual-stack client loss in Norway, quite interesting.

Tamsyn font, looks pretty good.

Debian 6.0 “Squeeze” released

A Rock So Heavy You Can’t Lift It