Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You, phoning sucks.

We Must Fix HTTPS, yes yes yes.

The Google Vortex, best “I’m joining Google”-post ever.

Debt: The first five thousand years

Chartwell is a font family that explores the use of OpenType to interpret and visualize data.

Flipback books, sounds like a cool format.

The Luminant Point Arrays show tube televisions in the moment they are switched off.

Teal and Orange – Hollywood, Please Stop the Madness

How To Make Love to a Trans Person, PNSFW poem.

The Painter, Lynch’s hair.

Tethering explained

How a handful of geeks defied the USSR, “All channels were blacked-out except for one; Usenet” (archive).

Lessons from MetaFilter, SXSW talk available on Vimeo.

Fukushima and Engineering, Matt Webb finds the truest words: “1991–2001 were blessed years in the West. […] I feel no guilt. That was the most carefree decade I’ll have.” I feel both grateful and sad for growing up during that time.

Reverse-enginerring the Sendai earthquake by GPS

J Primer, J Dictionary, read them in that order, always having the J Vocabulary open. I certainly have a lot of fun with it. I also urge you to glimpse into “An Implementation of J” (in jgplsrc/docs/ioj/ioj.htm)

groff deleted from OpenBSD tree, making it thus C++ free.

OpenBSD 4.9: “The Answer”, they cover Bob Dylan.

The Junkyard Jumbotron lets you take a bunch of random displays and instantly stitch them together into a large, virtual display, simply by taking a photograph of them. All you need is a browser.

Swift, the multiparty transport protocol, “aka BitTorrent at the transport layer”. Compact implementation, directly uses UDP.

Pratt Parsers are nice.

5x13, a condensed pixel font by me.

A pen which you can chew on and entirely eat

Universal Wrapping Paper

Dear Twitter, by Charles Miller.

Anatomy of a Crushing, the pinboard.in story. Exciting.

Prosody is a modern flexible communications server for Jabber/XMPP written in Lua.

The strange story of etherpad, it’s really a gem of software. (All I wish for is Emacs integration. :))

HTML5+ CSS3 is turing-complete, since it can implement Rule 110.

CLFSWM is a 100% Common Lisp X11 window manager with a tree model.

NetBSD now runs under Amazon EC2

Savoy Cocktail Index, Erik Ellestad prepared and photographed all of the cocktails in the Savoy Cocktail Book. Wow.

URL Hunter! An experimental game using the URL bar as the game screen.

The Girl Who Couldn’t Come, by Joey Comeau. NSFW, duh.

Insane asylum plans

I drive by this building almost every day and noticed the typographical oddity pretty quickly, but I didn’t get around taking a shot of it for almost two years.

Note that the left side of the inscription is set in Akzidenz Grotesk, while the right side is Arial. (Compare the “R”s, the “C”, the “S”.)

Plagiarized Lines in Dissertation of Germanys Defense Minister Guttenberg

Insufficiently known POSIX shell features, collected by Avery Pennarun.

The Inferno Shell, by Roger Peppé. I keep coming back to this paper.

Urban Renewal is a set of insanely great TrueType versions of the long-forgotten city-named fonts of Mac OS Classic, not seen since System 7.1. These TrueType versions are kare-fully constructed to be as faithful to the original designs as possible, while breaking free of the bitmap grid in subtle ways.

J Source GPL, yay: “We are going to release J Source under GPL version 3 license.”

Working at Microsoft – Day to Day Coding, I found this pretty interesting and sane. (cached copy)

How to configure apache2 to play Tic Tac Toe with mod_rewrite, neat.

Spacewar! Original 1962 game code running on a PDP-1 emulator in JavaScript

Amazing estimation of Pi using the Mandlebrot set

Proofs that p, and more proofs that p.

MobMov, the drive-in that drives in.

Toilet paper chindogu, WJW.