Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
22jul2006
Lillybridge III: Final Page of an Early 20th Century Photo Essay, see Part I and II first if you haven’t already.
Han Solo in Carbonite, made of Lego!
XML::Literal 0.01, neat Perl.
Israel is certainly in a difficult position – knowing that even if they stop, Hezbollah won’t – but you can’t fight fire with a flamethrower. — MacDara Conroy
Gavyn Davies does the maths, how a statistical formula won the war. Pretty cool: “The statisticians believed that the Germans, being Germans, had logically numbered their tanks in the order in which they were produced. And this deduction turned out to be right. It was enough to enable them to make an estimate of the total number of tanks that had been produced up to any given moment.”
The DOM Song, by Tim Bray. WJW.
Combinatorics and the art of Dungeons and Dragons, “Throw 4 dice, sum the numbers they generated and substract the lowest value from the sum. What is the average number of such throws?”
I woke up this mornin’, feelin’ round for my shoes
Know ‘bout ‘at I got these, old walkin’ blues
Woke up this mornin’, feelin’ round for my shoes
But you know ‘bout ‘at I, got these old walkin’ blues
— Robert Johnson, Walkin’ Blues
Voyage to Utopia and the City Obscure, comics at BLDG BLOG.
Sun CTO: Incremental open-sourcing of Java is the way, open-sourcing without making it really free is a waste of time and energy.
Linux sucks, Apple sucks, and Popularity Isn’t Everything, by Dan Zambonini. “Nearly 40,000 views and an inbox overflowing with hate-mail later, I’d learnt a valuable lesson.”
The death penalty in Japan, Amnesty International reports. “Therefore we can’t notify anyone before the hanging, including the prisoner.”
An Algorithm for Compressing Space and Time, by Tomas G. Rokicki. Featuring Bill Gosper.
No more “more” pages?, more of those sites, please!
Ninth annual ICFP Programming Contest, the task description this year.
Got a nuclear bomb
And I’m gonna set it off
I got a nuclear bomb
And I’m gonna set it off
— Dan Bern, Nuclear Bomb
Codegolf allows you to show off your code-fu and try and solve coding problems using the least number of keystrokes. Nice competition website.
From Java To Ruby: Things Every Manager Should Know, a new book by Bruce Tate, published by the Pragmatic Programmers.
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