Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
22aug2007
Seam Carving for content-aware image resizing, this is so awesome. Watch the demo.
AnlgoHaskell: The Aftermath, summary by Neil Mitchell.
Installer.app is a UIKit based package manager for the iPhone. It works by downloading packages over WiFi (wireless networking) or EDGE. It supports installing, updating and uninstalling applications. That was quick.
Get in the groove and let the good times roll
We’re gonna stay here to soothe our soul
It could take all night long
— Rolling Stones, Good Times
Ghazal is a poetic form consisting of couplets which share a rhyme and a refrain. Each line must share the same meter.
Ludwig Feuerbach auf Wikipedia. Hervorragender Artikel.
Sky: The final frontier, Google Earth now lets you look up as well as down.
Search Engine Marketeers are the new script kiddies, …or how Vadim Smelyansky got pwned. Interesting story.
suffixtree is a Haskell library for lazy, efficient suffix tree construction, search, and traversal.
History of Writing, “The advent of a writing system, however, seems to coincide with the transition from hunter-gatherer societies to more permanent agrarian encampments when it became necessary to count ones property, whether it be parcels of land, animals or measures of grain or to transfer that property to another individual or another settlement.”
Creating a Personal Research Agenda, “A Research Agenda is a list of questions to focus on – they are the destinations you are tacking towards, the organizing principle around which you work. You might not be focusing on all of them all the time, but just formulating a list and putting it down will cause your mind to roll over them in the background like a kind of background thread.”
Book Review: Forbidden Lego, WJW.
What is a Gerbe?, by Nigel Hitchin. Uhh.
So if you’re down on your luck
And you can’t harmonize
Find a girl with far away
And if you’re downright disgusted
And life ain’t worth a dime
Get a girl with far away eyes
— Rolling Stones, Far Away Eyes
Airborne Geology, “One of several interesting things I’ve found in Alan Weisman’s new book The World Without Us is his rhetorical approach to the industrial burning of fossil fuel. He refers to burning oil and coal as a way of “tapping the Carboniferous Formation and spewing it up into the sky” – that is, it’s “carbon we have mined from the Earth and loaded into the air.””
Geek birthday, “I am a complete geek, aided and abetted by my lovely wife. She has been slaving for some time on some fingerless gloves, embroidered – in true thug style – on the knuckles with ‘car’ and ‘cdr’, and on the insides of the thumbs with parentheses.” Whoa!
Meanwhile, a fantastic and twisty interactive comic. Heck, I spent hours in it.
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