Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
10dec2006
Grisbi is a personnal accounting application running under GNU/Linux and Windows, released under the GPL licence.
Drop City was a community that formed in the hills of southern Colorado in the late 1960’s, which become a sort of icon of the rural 1960’s communal living that seemed to be blooming at that time. Singled out by the media as exemplary, Drop City was known for its dome-style of architecture, which combined the principles and methods of Buckminister Fuller with inexpensive, found materials, such as sheet metal hacked off of junked car roofs.
Silently Discarding Information?, Curtis Poe and the call for a numeric tower.
Have you ever seen the light?
Don’t you wonder where I hide
I will live, then I will die
I will keep you on my mind
— The Subways, Oh Yeah
Adobe MARS: Looks Interesting, Eliot Kimber says: “MARS is an XML-based format that is intended as a functional replacement for PDF. It’s not really accurate to call it an XML version of PDF because it’s not a simple transliteration of PDF into tags (which could be done easily enough) but a ground-up exercise in designing and XML-based scheme for doing what PDF does.” What happened to XPS, btw?
Computer Science Logo Style, a three-volume series intended mainly for teenagers and their teachers, or for adults who aren’t professional programmers. Full text online.
The Missing Piece meets the Big O. About imperfectness and satisfaction. Must see, really.
Chile’s Gen Pinochet dies at 91, Chile’s former military leader Augusto Pinochet has died at the age of 91.
The Genius is in the Details, Aaron Swartz says: “The smartest people I know disdain abstractions, preferring to speak in concrete specifics.”
We were caught by the light
Held on to the day till it became ours
The minutes went by, the cab is outside
There’s no time to take
— Feist, One Evening
Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading, and no mention of Anarchaia! ;-P Good list, though.
Evolving Logo, the Max Plank Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics simply rocks: “[E]verytime the logo is displayed on a website as an animated icon or printed out on a letter, it reflects the current state of the lab as a living organism.”
FAUST is a compiled language for real-time audio signal processing. Its programming model combines two approaches: functional programming and block diagram composition. You can think of FAUST as a structured block diagram language with a textual syntax.
Indexed, a lovely and highly recommended blog where every post fits on an index card. Must read.
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