Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
15jul2008
Deploying a Rack-based Ruby application with Phusion Passenger. Very easy!
Defender of the favicon is a JavaScript remake of Eugene Jarvis’ brilliant arcade game Defender written by Mathieu ‘p01’ Henri and inspired by Scott Schiller’s experiment with generated favicons VU meter. The idea was to push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs.
I see all around me
I didn’t know him for I didn’t see
To live once again, to live in dreams
To live once again, to live once again
— Virgin Prunes, Walls Of Jericho
IFCP 2008 Team home pages, often with sources and writeups.
How Fair is Monopoly?, by Ian Stewart. “Everyone has played Monopoly. But few, I’d imagine, have ever thought about the math involved. In fact, the probability of winning at Monopoly can be described by interesting constructions known as Markov chains.”
The Life Of Riley, the worlds oldest blogger died two days ago at age 108.
Quicksort erratum, by Mauricio Fernandez. Lazy quicksort is nice.
Bubble Calendar, a poster-sized calendar with a bubble to pop every day. WANT HAVE.
PB & J, thank you, Patrick Logan, for writing the first non-bullshit post on Protocol Buffers.
I would tell you
That I loved you
If I thought that you would stay
But I know that it’s no use
That you’ve already
Gone away
— The Cure, Boys Don’t Cry
Walking the Line When You Work from Home, by Natalie Jost at A List Apart. “Every work environment offers distractions, but those who work from home with their families face a unique set of issues—and need equally unique ways of dealing with them.”
radiohead, Data used to produce the House of Cards music video is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Souce code is made available under the Apache License 2.0.