Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

16aug2007

Hint: How to redesign the Leopard dock so it sucks less, I favor that.

How to write your own ISO Standard!, by Rick Jelliffe.

firesky by Arcane Randomity

Waterville, make projects for the renewal of the deserted water and paper mills.

The day that Elvis died was like a mercy killing
America breathed a sigh of relief
We knew all about the drugs and the Vegas shows
And there wasn’t much of anything that looked like grief
— Dan Bern, Too Late To Die Young

Bang methods; or, Danger, Will Rubyist!, David A. Black on !-methods in Ruby. This post is five years too late, but maybe it helps.

Foundations of category theory (PDF), slides by Oliver Kullmann.

Archon by Aaron Stump is a new directly reflective meta-programming language. It enables meta-programs to compute directly with unencoded programs. This paper is a revelation.

Call-by-value is dual to call-by-name, by Philip Wadler.

“Dieu a choisi celuy qui est… le plus simple en hypotheses et le plus riche en phenomenes” [God has chosen that which is the most simple in hypotheses and the most rich in phenomena] — Leibniz, “Discours de métaphysique”, VI, 1686

The Origins of Pattern Theory, the Future of the Theory, and The Generation of a Living World, OOPSLA 1996 keynote by Christopher Alexander.

Unix Toolbox: ngrep: easily grep local network traffic, ooh that sounds useful.

One badass peep, scene 2. by Corey (a.k.a. ten0fnine)

Every time a bird flies by
Tears well up in my eye
I can feel the rain from a couple mornings down
Out in the pasture the cow’s in heat
Someone gonna sweep her off her feet
Probably one of them bulls
Wander out here from town
— Dan Bern, Trudy

Emacs visual cheat sheet, “The cheat sheet includes navigation commands, the most common commands for Open/Save/Close, working with buffers, searching, and Copy/Cut/Paste edit functionality.” Probably helpful if it’s not in your fingers already.

How to write a book: the short honest truth, by Scott Berkun. “If you want to write, kill the magic: a book is just a bunch of writing. Anyone can write a book.”

Court acquits allofmp3.com site owner, “A Russian court found the former boss of music download Web site www.allofmp3.com not guilty of breaching copyright on Wednesday in a case considered a crucial test of Russia’s commitment to fighting piracy.” Yay.