Anarchaia

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

05mar2008

The Hand Drawn Map Association has, well, a few hand-drawn maps.

HOWTO build a LiveCD from scratch with Gentoo. Doesn’t seem to be that hard!

throw snow by fly in the sky

Hey hey I saved the world today
Everybody’s happy now
The bad things gone away
And everybody’s happy now
The good things here to stay
Please let it stay
— Eurythmics, I Saved The World Today

Sliced bananas on opaque data (The expression lemma), by Ralf Lämmel and Ondrej Rypacek. “Algebraic data types and catamorphisms (folds) play a central role in functional programming as they allow programmers to define recursive data structures and operations on them uniformly by structural recursion. Likewise, in object-oriented (OO) programming, recursive hierarchies of object types with virtual methods play a central role for the same reason. There is a semantical correspondence between these two situations which we reveal and formalize categorically.”

Workplace Experiments at 37signals. Yay for 4-day weeks!

geordi is an C++ eval bot. S(l)ick.

DSC02530 by Sharon Pazner

LEW is a Lua-based system for doing graphics like Processing or Nodebox.

I like Ghosts most because it is just under two hours of excellently eerie Reznorian sound design without the liability of Reznorian lyrics. — Scott David Herman

A better backup system based on Git, by Mauricio Fernandez. Seems to be useful.

Wie erwartet erhebliche Probleme bei bayerischer Computer-Stimmenzählung, vermeldet der CCC. “Das Login-Passwort für den Zugang zur Wahlkonfiguration war in mindestens einer Stadt auf “123456” gesetzt und lag offen sichtbar im Wahllokal.”