The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning, by Matthew Shaer. “Now, freed from prison, she talks about why she did it – and the isolation that followed.”

mblaze 0.1, a Maildir-focused command line mail client.

Eliminating Binders for Easier Operational Semantics, by Mike Stay.

Solving the Rubik’s Cube Optimally is NP-complete, by Erik D. Demaine, Sarah Eisenstat, and Mikhail Rudoy.

Origami anything, “New algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure.”

dired, an early filebrowser/directory editor, also in Unix v8.

insect, a high precision scientific calculator with full support for physical units.

Base-4 fractions in Telugu, by Mark J. Dominus.

These Maps Reveal the Hidden Structures of ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Books

Arabic Logos of Big Global Brands

Bob Dylan 2016 Nobel Lecture in Literature (YouTube).

A formal kernel memory-ordering model, “instead of perusing memory-barriers.txt to find the answer to a memory-ordering question, you can get your answer by writing a small test case and feeding it to the tool.”

Prosthaphaeresis was an algorithm used in the late 16th century and early 17th century for approximate multiplication and division using formulas from trigonometry.

git-cvsexportcommit, export a single commit to a CVS checkout.

Bork is a bash DSL for making declarative assertions about the state of a system.

ffcnt, fast file counting on HDDs. Neato.

Apollo Flight Director Attitude Indicator with housing removed.

Cosmic Latte is a name assigned to the average color of the universe.

Hugs for Chelsea, a benefit album for Chelsea Manning. Recommended listening (and buying, of course).

Pinboard Acquires Delicious, WJW.

Tectonic is a modernized, complete, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine, powered by XeTeX and TeXLive.

A New Public-Key Cryptosystem via Mersenne Numbers, by Divesh Aggarwal, Antoine Joux, Anupam Prakash, and Miklos Santha.

Maybe Skip SHA-3, my sentiments too.

Veusz is a scientific plotting and graphing program with a graphical user interface, designed to produce publication-ready 2D plots.

EvoCAD: Evolution-Assisted Design (1999), by Pablo Funes, Louis Lapat, and Jordan B. Pollack. Genetic algorithms for LEGO.

A Puzzle of Clever Connections Nears a Happy End, “Given five points, and assuming no three fall exactly on a line, prove that it is always possible to form a convex quadrilateral.”

Can’t see the FOUR-est for the trees, Peter Seibel enumerates trees in Haskell.

A Kisrhombille Tessellation Based Geometry and a New Kind of Fractal, by John Greene.