Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
10jul2008
Dress For Dinner Napkins, essential.
The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design, by Jon Tan. An excellent post on an excellent blog, both in design and content.
Bacon is dead! Long live bacon!, BAAACON.
urxvt mouseless url yanking, very useful.
We found you hiding – we found you lying
Choking on the dirt and sand
Your former glories and all the stories
Dragged and washed with eager hands
But oh your city lies in dust, my friend
— Siouxsie And The Banshees, Cities In Dust
AfterStep is a window manager for the Unix X Window System. It still exists!
UBF and VM opcode design, insights by Joe Armstrong. I love using ASCII for opcodes, really.
Thsrs, the shorter thesauruswordbook.
Very usefulutile, reallytruly.
(The opposite would be nice to have as well.)
OCRopus is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multi-lingual capabilities. Used by Google, Apache License 2.0.
I think the message of Fight Club is not so much liberating violence but that liberation hurts. What may falsely appear as my celebration of violence, I think, is a much more tragic awareness. — Liberation Hurts: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek
How a page gets created, “Matt Willey recently recorded his decision-making on a feature design for the Royal Academy magazine.” Amazing how much editing takes place during layout.
In the temple of love
Shine like thunder
In the temple of love
Cry like rain
— The Sisters Of Mercy, Temple Of Love
Functional Netlists, by Sungwoo Park, Jinha Kim, and Hyeonseung Im. “We develop a variant of the lambda calculus, called l-lambda (linear lambda), which may serve as a high-level substitute for netlists. […] The translation of l-lambda into structural descriptions of hardware circuits is sound and complete in the sense that it maps expressions only to realizable hardware circuits and that every realizable hardware circuit has a corresponding expression in l-lambda.”
The War Prayer, by Mark Twain. “The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism…”