Braitenberg vehicles are simple automatons conceived in thought experiments proposed by the German cyberneticist Valentino Braitenberg to illustrate the abilities of reactive agents, thus representing the simplest form of behavior based artificial intelligence or embodied cognition, i.e. intelligent behavior that emerges purely from sensorimotor interaction between the agent and its environment, without any need for an internal memory, representation of the environment, or inference.

Groonga, an open-source fulltext search egline and column store, a successor to Senna. Written in C, LGPLed. Looks really promising but is awfully underdocumented.

Burning Man at Google: A Cultural Infrastructure for New Media Production (PDF), by Fred Turner.

Watch how Paul Graham writes an essay

What I’ve Learned from Hacker News, by Paul Graham. (Excuse the Grahamania, but I really like his recent posts.)

Semantic meaning of everyday objects in a connected world, video and slides by Aaron Straup Cope.

The Anti-web Manifesto, or: a Rejection of the modern Web and its Technology.

How To Datamosh: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, at YouTube.

Pattern Pulp, a new blog on patterns.

Endless Notebooks, a fantastic idea.

Researchers solve mystery of deep-sea fish with tubular eyes and transparent head

25 Things About My Sexuality, a blog. NSFW.

USB Bra, “plug and play”.

Beyond the Tesseract

Suns From Flickr

Edible prints

SXSW 2009 Torrent, featuring a whopping 5 GB of music in 1053 files. Somehow I don’t think we’ll see six word reviews this year but it would be great.

The OpenFire soft processor is an open source Verilog implementation of the Xilinx MicroBlaze.

The b16 Processor is a minimalistic stack processor, inspired by Chuck Moore’s recent work. The original incarnation is 16 bit, byte addressed. There are 32 instructions, each is 5 bits.

The Lazy Man’s Guide to Enlightenment, by Thaddeus Golas.

The Year of the Rope: An Interview with Linda Montano & Tehching Hsieh

Salami slicing is a series of many minor actions, often performed by clandestine means, that together results in a larger action that would be difficult or illegal to perform at once. Also see One Piece at a Time*.

Practical Collisions for EnRUPT, too bad. Better bet on CubeHash?.

Field, a development environment for making digital art. It is an environment for writing code to rapidly and experimentally assemble and explore algorithmic systems. It is visual, it is hybrid, it is code-based.

The Diff Match and Patch libraries offer robust algorithms to perform the operations required for synchronizing plain text.

Startups in 13 Sentences, by Paul Graham.

tircd presents twitter as an IRC channel. You can connect to tircd with any IRC client, and twitter as if you were on IRC.

How to Learn Math and Physics

3M Performance Plus Duct Tape (Nuclear Grade)

Nutri-Grin

DragonFly Release 2.2, “The HAMMER filesystem is considered production-ready in this release”. Bootable USB disk-key images are now provided.

A Year in a Cage: A Life Shrunk to Expand Art, “spending a year in near-solitary confinement in a cell-like cage doing absolutely nothing.”

key-chord.el, map pairs of simultaneously pressed keys to commands.

F*** My Life, and let others figure out whether your life is f***ed.

Rebirth of the Amazing FishCam, hooray!

Satanist Rocketeer Puzzle

Notes on breaking up

How Stuff Works

LMVDR

@.org.

In Defense of Readers, by Mandy Brown at A List Apart. “[O]f late I’ve seen many a reader devour books on their iPhone (including one who confessed to reading the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy while scrolling with his thumb).”

Leaving Facebook, “I’ve recently realized that not only do I think Facebook itself is trivial and stupid – but it’s starting to make me think my friends who are on Facebook are also trivial and stupid.”

Non-Hierarchical Management, by Aaron Swartz.

Strophe is a library for writing XMPP clients. It is implemented in both JavaScript and C for use in a wide variety of languages.

The Golden Grid, a new CSS grid layout by the Emastic and Malo guy.

Diagramming the Obama Sentence, “My view is also that nobody’s above the law, and, if there are clear instances of wrongdoing, that people should be prosecuted just like any ordinary citizen, but that, generally speaking, I’m more interested in looking forward than I am in looking backwards.”

Where the wild things aren’t, “In 2002, disgraced former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick closed the Belle Isle Children’s Zoo despite opposition from the City Council, claiming the pressure of the city’s $75 million budget deficit.”

Faust and the physicists

Last Night’s Cobra, I love the animations.

India to launch cow urine as soft drink, WJW.

Lightning Interviews, by Ward Cunningham. Interesting people, short videos, what else could one wish for.

Chordial is an open source implementation of MIT’s Chord DHT algorithm in the Erlang programming language. Amazingly compact.

A one-page proof of Chaitin’s theorem

Type-safe prototype-based programming with first-class selectors and namespaces in OCaml, by Mauricio Fernandez. Slick.

KERN is a minimalist typography experience challenging you to precisely place a missing letter into a falling word while avoiding any unnecessary ligatures! For the iPhone.

98 pages, by Craig Frazer.

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 released

Stupid crap, Mark Dominus: “This is a short compendium of some of the dumbest arguments I’ve ever heard.” I love it.

Heterogeneous containers in OCaml

Inheritance as Antipattern, Gosling replied: “I’d leave out classes.” (Who knows a good OO language that doesn’t have inheritance?)

A state-of-the-art public-key signature system, by D. J. Bernstein. Unfortunately only old code.

Tape Cassette Inserts

Instant Losing Horns

Heart Curves

Yuken Teruya

Memoring

Software Tools in Pascal, by Brian W. Kernighan and P. J. Plauger. “This tape or disk contains all of the programs from Software Tools in Pascal, plus the documentation.”

How to quickly determine the day of the week for a particular date, in your head!

erasing, the tumblr.

Probabilistic programming in POSIX C and OCaml: shift vs fork, by Oleg Kiselyov.

Axiom of Choice as a black-box cursor-like Set API, ha! I had exactly the same intuition!

An Exercise in Species Barcoding, by Peter Norvig.

Whoosh is a fast, featureful full-text indexing and searching library implemented in pure Python.

Delphi gets closures, WJW.

The myth of the concentration oasis

Amish Hackers

Bad workmen

Proposal for Passive Private Browsing, by anaesthetica. “With the advent of Firefox 3’s AwesomeBar, a lot of users have been complaining about its functionality of returning items in one’s history that you would rather keep those looking over your shoulder from seeing (i.e. porn).”

A Grateful Dead analysis: The relationship between concert and listening behavior, by Marko A Rodriguez at First Monday.

Keep Your Identity Small, by Paul Graham: “I finally realized today why politics and religion yield such uniquely useless discussions.”

Introduction to Information Retrieval, book by Christopher D. Manning, Prabhakar Raghavan, and Hinrich Schütze. Full text available.

The little Perl hack to invert “THE LIST”, and origin of IMDb. (Try reimplementing that script in your favourite language, here is my Ruby version.)

One Floor Up, a collection of smart products, bright ideas, and fresh approaches.

K7 aims at creating a high-quality standard library for V8 by taking advantage of its embedding facilities.

Zen Stories to Tell Your Neighbors

Does He Love You?

If the water reached this level

The Liver Monologues

ES is an ECMAScript friendly, pure component operating system. Pretty unixish, heck, it even features an ed(1) clone.

Telephone, a minimalist SIP client for OS X.

All Tomorrows: Necromancer, the tale of a future where the enterprising Chantry Guild has figured out a way to make magic work.

The Fundamental Little Hackers’ Summit, March 7th to 9th at CMU.

BF Joust Hill, finally a good application for Brainfuck.

How The Kernel Manages Your Memory

Countdown (actually up) to the UNIX Epoch time being 1234567890!

Don’t Work for Assholes

Totem Destroyer 2

Confession

Why athletes thanking God for victories is stupid, David A. Black: “I hate it because it’s narcissistic and because it’s theologically infantile.”

Migration from Apache to Lighttpd, sample chapter from Andre Bogus’ new book on lighttpd. Thorough review follows.

Sidekick LX 2009 to use NetBSD as native operating system, whoa!

UsenetDHT: A low-overhead design for Usenet, by Emil Sit, Robert Morris, and M. Frans Kaashoek.

Advanced Debugging with JavaScript, by Chris Mills and Hallvord R. M. Steen at A List Apart.

The technical story of Muxtape

Piet Mondrian Goes to the Super Bowl

The Case Against Everything Buckets, Alex Payne: “If you want to store data of differing types within a lightweight organization system, I encourage you to check out the filesystem.”

Reviving the Gofer Standard Prelude (circa. 1994), No monads!

CPS transformation using delimited continuations

Muspy will notify you when artists you like release new albums.

Unpublished MySQL FAQ, priceless.

Do you use your back button?, as much as I use tabs!

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, by Jorge Luis Borges. Must read.

How Twitter Was Born

Baby Born In Bay Area With 12 Functioning Fingers, 12 Toes

Chain of Fire, burn people. Big fun!

Deconstructing Dumbo

Third Base

Fhtägn-Dazs