Anarchaia

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

26dec2005

Mathematicians solve old problem that may have new applications, finding a genus one helicoid.

A Night Elf gave me long trousers for X-Mas, Stefan Scholl plays WoW.

DSC00333 by buckofive

The Ghosts of Internet Time by Andy Oram. I feel sentimental.

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose
Nothin’, that’s all that Bobby left me, yeah
But, feelin’ good was easy, Lord, when he sang the blues
Hey, feelin’ good was good enough for me, Mm-hmm
Good enough for me and my Bobby Mcgee
— Janis Joplin, Me And Bobby McGee

Who is snooping on my email?, Richard M. Smith wondered. An easy trick. I’d add sending the mail encrypted in various strenghts(!).

AI Memo 410: Viewing Control Structures as Patterns of Passing Messages by Carl Hewitt; the AI lab savy will see how this influenced Scheme.

Grand Challenge, Urban Edition, this is gonna get funny. Send robots that can’t cross a desert into a town.

Gift Box Store III by midweekpost

Dealing with failure is easy: Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle: You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve. — Alan Perlis

Must We Mean What We Say (In OWL)? by Jennifer Golbeck. The semantic web solves problems we don’t have. ;-)