Anarchaia

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

26aug2008

Setting up a new remote git repository, it’s easy.

gcalc, a small Ruby script to use the Google calculator from the shell.

eat me. by nora/sskizo

Free online: Full documentation for the Large Hadron Collider, very nice.

This train is bound for glory, this train.
This train is bound for glory, this train.
This train is bound for glory,
Don’t carry nothing but the righteous and the holy.
This train is bound for glory, this train.
— Woody Guthrie, This Train Is Bound For Glory

Bathroom Art, WJW.

Jack, write Rack apps in JavaScript.

Opentape, a free way to make and host your own web mixtape. Pretty nice.

A Comic by Larry Gonick about the Weaire-Phelan foam.

CSS Sprites2 – It’s JavaScript Time, by Dave Shea at A List Apart. “It’s high time to revisit the CSS Sprites technique from four years ago, and see if we can’t interject a little bit of movement of our own.”

Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer, by Aaron Rester at A List Apart. “By adding a new metaphor to our theoretical toolboxes, we can gain a richer, more nuanced understanding of what we create and how our users interact with it.”

Skylight by pwr27

‘Bee’ system prototypes represent the future of connectivity in emergencies, “The Bee will allow communication, connectivity and data access in field conditions where such technologies are often difficult or impossible to use.”

Who says we die?
Before we live
I promise you walls of grace
to carry on
When we’re lost
We’ll find a way
— Shiny Toy Guns, I Promise You Walls

fleshmap: listen, “What do we sing about, when we sing about the body? The chart below, based on a sample of thousands songs, tells the story. The size of a circle corresponds to how often that part is mentioned in each genre.”

EnRUPT is a new small and simple scalable word-based symmetric cryptographic primitive that can be used to construct fast and secure block ciphers, hash functions, stream ciphers, RNGs and MACs. It accepts keys and data blocks of any size. It is currently the simplest of all the block and stream ciphers and hash functions. PDF paper.