Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13mar2006
Demo CD website of the TU Dresden Research Operating System (TUD:OS), for more than a decade, our group researches and develops microkernel-based operating systems with the focus on real-time and security. This Demo CD is an effort to show off some of our most interesting experiments and results to you.
NPD-BLOG, Recherche, Dokumentation, Aufklärung—die Politik der rechtsextremen NPD.
FakeGayNews.com, because real gay and lesbian news is too damn depressing. WJW.
Domain Specific Languages and Haskell, slides by Ingmar Brouns.
Nabaztag is a phonetic spelling of the Armenian word for ‘rabbit’, which is basically what it is: a small, white, animatronic rabbit with a passing resemblance to an albino Pikachu. And you can script it with Ruby!
Google Mars, nice one.
Gosling Didn’t Get The Memo, I didn’t want to post on the Gosling quote, but this summary (and reply) is too to go unnoticed.
Idiot wind, blowing through the flowers on your tomb,
Blowing through the curtains in your room.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You’re an idiot, babe.
It’s a wonder that you still know how to breathe.
— Bob Dylan, Idiot Wind
Arithmetic with Continued Fractions, a talk by Mark Dominus. “Continued fractions are a representation of the real numbers that are in many ways more mathematically natural than the usual decimal or binary representations.”
My favorite NP-complete problem, by Mark Dominus. “The official computer science jargon name for it is exact cover by 3-sets, or just X3C.”
Why do servers ship with slow CDROM readers?, a reasonable answer.
Interviewing Ruby Programmers, by Steve Yegge. “I will assert: all the best programmers are proficient with at least three to five programming languages, and the Really Best ones pretty much hate all languages, but they hate some less than others.” Must read.
Seaside-Hosting is a free hosting service for non-commercial Seaside applications. In contrast to a standard file hosting or a virtual server hosting this service provides a simple to use interface to set up and run your Seaside applications.
Hiring: The Lake Wobegon Strategy, by Peter Norvig. But does it scale?
Leadership in World of Warcraft, by Joi Ito. “People pay a $15/month fee to play WoW. In the real world, most people get paid to work.”
I mecht so gern mein linken Fuß do hinstöi’n, wo’n der Bob Dylan scho g’hobt hot. Aber bloß den linken, den rechten brauch’ i zum Arschtreten. — Hans Söllner
Is a Java macro language enough?, by Sam Griffith. Why isn’t Dylan mentioned? But he’s certainly right about the nature of Java.
Second Generation Tag Clouds, by Joe Lamantia. Would be interesting to use a liquid browser, too.
mandolux.com has excellent wallpapers in all various resolutions.