Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12aug2006
The GNU Linear Programming Kit, Part 1: Introduction to linear optimization, by Rodrigo Ceron. “Find the best solutions to complex numeric problems.” Unfortunately, all my problems are nonlinear. Argh.
Hätten wir dich so vermisst? Der PC wird 25, danke, Heise: “Eine schöne Geburt war es nicht und niemand vermisste im Jahre 1981 einen PC. Mit seinem verkorksten Design traf der PC aber den Trend der Zeit.”
Big Money In Small Houses?, cute.
I will meditate each morning at the sunrise
I will write down all of my dreams
I will travel on the back roads, I will
Keep myself open to whatever
— Dan Bern, Rice
List of famous trees, from Wikipedia.
More on Excel in-cell graphing, nice hack.
Val migration, Audrey Tang writes about doing big changes in a functional program.
Hpricot the OhFourth, new release by _why.
A breeze-driven pavilion and some bridge-machines, large fabric structure that can be used as a public or private pavilion. Neat.
Lisp Machine Manual: Hypertext edition, this is a prerelease version of the hypertext edition of the 6th edition of the Lisp Machine Manual. Great effort.
A hydrogen atom is only about a ten millionth of a millimeter in diameter, but the proton in the middle is a hundred thousand times smaller, and the electron whizzing around the outside is a thousand times smaller than THAT. The rest of the atom is empty.
Now of all of these things
There is something that is real
That is called a day
I know when a day begins because the sun comes up
And I know when it’s over because the sun goes down
That’s real
— Dan Bern, Days And Months And Years
Bulletproof Web Design (PDF, 18MB!), slides by Dan Cederholm at Webvisions 2006. Very good.
Alternative to Dependency Injection, icky.
Ajaxload, Ajax loading gif generator. Web 2.0 essential.