Anarchaia

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

08sep2006

Sexual urges of men and women, mwahahaha.

American torture actually an issue of standards vagueness?, Rick Jelliffe says: “One problem with standards based on text or formalisms only, is that it is very difficult to test them.”

DSC04982 by thestreetnetwork

Mesopotamian Mathematics, “We explain the origins of mathematics in Mesopotamia from the earliest tokens, through the development of Sumerian mathematics to the grand flowering in the Old Babylonian period, and on into the later periods of Mesopotamian history.”

We need water
Good, good water
We need water
And maybe somebody’s daughter
— The Who, Water

Global Liberalism versus Local Liberalism, by circletimessquare. “Therefore, for liberalism to win back the upper hand in the West, it must accept that some of the conservative’s agenda on the global stage is not only acceptable, but more in line with a liberal platform than a conservative one.”

O’Reilly Code Search beta, “Enter search terms to find relevant sample code from nearly 700 O’Reilly books. The database currently contains over 123,000 individual examples, composed of 2.6 million lines of code—all edited and ready to use.”

picaturi de roua by alt_castan

Science Fiction and the City: An Interview with Jeff VanderMeer , at BLDG BLOG.

I think this brain has thought a lot,
Oh, searching, trying to find the crutch,
I think these ears hear a whole lot of music,
And like me they’ve heard a bit too much.
— The Who, Too Much Of Anything

Unit Testing Your Documentation, by Leonard Richardson, co-author of the Ruby Cookbook. “Thanks to the test framework, on a good day I could proofread, debug, and verify the correctness of 30 recipes.”

Using introspection to get method arguments and other info, Mauricio, you totally rock! (Now, let’s do it right and add it to core.)

Haskell for Maths, an awesome resource: “Code can be a way to make maths concrete—so that instead of just proving theories about various mathematical objects, we can actually manipulate these objects and experiment with them.”