Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
18feb2007
Foorore: because notes are already hyperdata, Manuel’s latest heuristic semistructured data format. Looks very good, when I get the time, I may do a Ruby parser for it.
Quantum hype, a grab bag of links, also for quantum programming language extensions.
Using XSLT 2.0 To Optimize Linux Distributions, by M. David Peterson. Kind of sick.
Fall out of the window with confetti in my hair
Deal out Jacks or Better on a blanket by the stairs
I’ll tell you all my secrets, but I lie about my past
Send me off to bed for evermore, send me off to bed for evermore
— Tom Waits, Tango Til’ They’re Sore
The Museum of Assassination, “Leaving aside for now whether or not this is the real deal, the window through which JFK was assassinated has been purchased on eBay for more than $3 million.” I still think it was suicide, or am I confusing something?
My Microsoft Google Yahoo Stories, a comparision. (Personal summary: Either go to MSFT Research, or Google. Easy.)
Top YouTube videographers descend on S.F., let’s hope the commenters don’t follow them?
Lesarion ist eine deutsche Lesben-Community.
Aventures in Advanced Symbolic Programming: 6.891, looks like a great Scheme course: “Applications include compilers, computer-algebra systems, deductive systems, and some artificial intelligence applications. […] Topics include combinators, generic operations, pattern matching, pattern-directed invocation, rule systems, backtracking, dependencies, indeterminacy, memoization, constraint propagation, and incremental refinement.”
Complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch
never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to
start over with a working simple system.
— Gall’s Law
wfo is a offline frontend for wikis and blogs. You can checkout a wiki page to a local file, edit the file, and commit to the page. Useful.
The JavaScript knowledge gap, I notice that myself: “So JavaScript is one of the world’s widest-deployed programming languages, and also one of the least-well-known, in the sense of the base of programmers who can competently work with it. That’s a problem.”
killnine is an ASCII art comic.
The Kashering of Coca-Cola, WJW.
The Program.exe Problem, I didn’t know Windows was that evil. Another reason to ban whitespace in file names.
Declutter Your Desk, by Van Mardian. Lovely hack.
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