Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
30apr2006
The Smithy code is series of letters embedded, as a private amusement, within the April 2006 approved judgement of Mr Justice Peter Smith on the The Da Vinci Code copyright case. It was first broken by Dan Tench, a lawyer who writes on media issues for The Guardian.
ShUnit, A Unit Testing Framework for the Bourne Family of Shells.
Mini Kanren and the Da Vinci challenge, logic programming in Scheme.
In Praise of Loopholes, by Matthew Baldwin. I don’t have 21 anuses.
Muslim Athletic Wear Covers Skin Without Cramping Style, religion as the mother of invention? :-)
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can’t be taught. — Paul Desmond
The Cutest Razor-Wire In The World, lovely.
WM Vorfreude, sehr gut.
Tracking Plane Flight on Internet, I just saw my plane cross the mid-Atlantic, not by looking out the window, but by watching routing updates cascade across the Internet.
And when I’m lying in my bed
I think about life
And I think about death
And neither one particularly appeals to me
— The Smiths, Nowhere Fast
Precalculus for Christian Schools, by Kathy D. Pilger and Ron Tagliapietra. “A line can be described either by its slope (a ratio) or by its inclination (an angle). These terms describe the deviation from the horizontal, but the word inclination also has a non-mathematical meaning. Without Christ, man is inclined to sin. The Word of God should shape our attitudes (inclinations).” WJW.
A look at the new compiler design of Factor. Pretty interesting.
5✭♫: One More Cup of Coffee, Tim Bray on Bob Dylan: “My taste in Dylan is a little unusual: once you get past One More Cup of Coffee, my favorites would be Baby Let Me Follow You Down (from the Last Waltz soundtrack) and Crash on the Levee (Down in the Flood) from The Basement Tapes.” Unusual indeed.
Everyday it’s something
Hits me all so cold
Find me sittin’ by myself
No excuses, then I know
— Alice In Chains, No Excuses
Having Done Java, and I still claim the Java stdlib sucks. The only reason to learn Java is to know of a bad example. }:-)
Haskell.org Summer Of Code Projects, nice list, with some Pugs related things too
We ♥ users, Avi Bryant says: “We have customers from Reykjavik to Melbourne to Sunnyvale, using Dabble to plan everything from home renovations to software projects to symphony orchestras, or to manage their collections of books, wines, or industry contacts.” Seems like they got a new cooporate identity, too.
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