Anarchaia

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

26nov2007

Reading the Next Book, by Peter Brantley. “Moving books onto the network and the ramifications for how we define reading, and our privacy.”

The Brand Gap, excellent slides on branding.

by eli m

GraficaObscura, collected Computer Graphics hacks, curated by Paul Haeberli.

And the wind chimes up above
Dance in the restless desert air
And I feel like I’m supposed to be someplace
But I don’t know where
— Dan Bern, Desert Wind

Napkin Notebook, whoooo.

Equation Bookshelf, is a simple idea of to divide things in priority order… put together the books that you need immediately or more important between (parentheses)! Set others between [square brackets] and {braces}. Want have.

This is a pylon, you better know.

interconnected, Matt Webb writes: “So what I’m advocating is a game-changing, post-revolution environmentalism. Don’t waste resources, sure. But if we’re spending resources to shift the status quo – feeding pandas into a wood-chipper to send a colony to the Moon, if that’s the kind of engine that we invent and that’s what it takes – then I’m behind it.”

libev is new, like libevent, but apparently better.

IMG_5442 by silverstealth

crunch compiles a severely restricted statically typed subset of R5RS Scheme to C++. It can be used to generate standalone executables or code embedded into Scheme programs.

Are you gonna follow your soul
Are you gonna follow your soul
Are you gonna follow your soul
Or just the style of the day
Or just the style of the day
— Dan Bern, Are You Gonna Follow Your Soul?

Deriving a Virtual Machine, by Shin-Cheng Mu. “I gave myself the following exercise: given an interpreter of a small language, derive a virtual machine and a corresponding compiler.” Very cool technique.

Dein Farblaserdrucker spioniert Dich aus, schrecklich.

Mobile Minimalism, “Container-made buildings are fun to look at, they’re fun to render, and they’re fun to imagine forming new architectural reefs and Tetris cities, interlocking in a sci-fi future coming soon to a landscape near you.”