Anarchaia

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

25aug2008

The Monad.Reader Issue 11 (PDF), by Douglas M. Auclair, Kenneth Knowles, and David F. Place. Featuring “How to Refold a Map”, “First-Order Logic à la Carte”, and “MonadPlus: What a Super Monad!”.

BERRIES fly :-) by DDiamond1

And where is the love?
Who knows what to do?
The men and the women carry us through
Across the river, to the promised land
— Dan Bern, Where is the Love?

Directing JavaScript with Arrows (PDF), by Khoo Yit Phang, Michael Hicks, Jeffrey S. Foster, and Vibha Sazawal. “JavaScript, being a single-threaded language, makes extensive use of event-driven programming to enable responsive web applica- tions. However, standard approaches to sequencing events are messy, and often lead to code that is difficult to understand and maintain. We have found that arrows, a generalization of monads, are an elegant solution to this problem.”

Ubuntu Satanic Edition, Linux for the Damned: It brings together the best free software and free metal music on one CD.

You are my whore, you are the one I adore,
you are the one that my twisted heart adores,
like a dog I will gnaw, like a dog I will paw,
you’re the one that my twisted heart adores.
— The Tiger Lillies, Whore

YouTube Comment Snob is a Firefox extension that filters out undesirable comments from YouTube comment threads. Essential.

DSC_0752 by ebyard

100 lines of C that can parse any Protocol Buffer, neat.

Tactical Landscaping and Terrain Deformation, “Over on Wired this weekend I read about a game called Fracture, by LucasArts, which features “terrain deformation” as a central factor in gameplay.”