Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
15aug2008
Clifford Stoll: 18 minutes with an agile mind, a TED talk really worth seeing.
Russian Mod Makes iPhone’s Rear-Side Apple Logo Glow, I like.
Mozilla SSL policy bad for the Web, I wholeheartedly support this.
Symbolics Lisp Machine Documents, big set of PDFs.
This is the hammer that killed John Henry
Won’t kill me, won’t kill me, won’t kill me
This is the hammer that killed John Henry
Won’t kill me, won’t kill me, won’t kill me
— Spike Driver Blues
Where do I begin? A problem solving approach to teaching functional programming, by Simon Thompson.
How many atoms of Jesus you eat every day, I love e2.
The Grelling-Nelson paradox is a semantic self-referential paradox formulated in 1908 by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson. “Is “Autological” autological?”
The Arecibo reply was the name given to a crop circle that appeared in farmland next to the Chilbolton radio telescope; home to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI) in Hampshire, UK, on tuesday 21 August 2001. The design is so named because it appears to be a response to the Arecibo message, which SETI transmitted into space in 1974. Cool prank.
An introduction to SHOES, code and graphical pairs.
LaTeX Equation Editor, online and with real-time update, very nice!
Oh death, where thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory?
You thought you had a hold on me but you were wrong, I’ve been set free
— Randy Travis, Oh Death
Suburban Ruins and The Ethics of House Flipping, “Although her home has been on the market for several years now, my aunt (by marriage) isn’t stalling because buyers are asking too low. She’s hesitating due to emotional attachment to the property – it’s the house her father designed and built, and the home she grew up in.”
Library of Dust, “In 1913, Maisel explained, an Oregon state psychiatric institution began to cremate the remains of its unclaimed patients. Their ashes were then stored inside individual copper canisters and moved into a small room, where they were stacked onto pine shelves.” Scaaary.
The First Poem Written for Computers, Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash…
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