Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20aug2006
Engrish Tshirt Fun, wheeee. Serial Fucker!
Clothes for the Soul, by Steve Yegge. “The idea is simple enough: your body is no longer a prison for your soul. It’s become more like a house, one that you can decorate to your tastes.”
Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature: Etymologies, collected by Mark Isaak. Ever heard of Marxella?
So… What is a Planet Again?, by circletimessquare. “This means our traditional notion of what a planet is and isn’t is about to be challenged in a whole new bunch of ways that Pluto and Mike Brown could never muster.”
Because dwm is customized through editing its source code, it’s pointless to make binary packages of it. This keeps its userbase small and elitist. No novices asking stupid questions. — dwm homepage <3
SciPy2006, some material and slides already are up.
What’s the point of Closures?, but you really ought to know this already.
Back to the Mac, Tim Bray moves back: “On balance, the Mac experience is better. But Ubuntu is not that far behind, and it’s catching up.”
LLVM in Leopard and beyond, by John Siracusa. “The LLVM JIT optimizations combined with the new multi-threaded OpenGL stack have yielded a doubling of the frame-rate in “a very popular MMORPG” (which is code for “WoW”).” WJW.
I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream,
You could have been anyone to me.
Before that moment you touched my lips
That perfect feeling when time just slips
Away between us on our foggy trip.
— Neil Young, Like A Hurricane
Would you let Foucault or Derrida treat your cancer?, “For example, how should a woman assign meaning to the diagnosis she just received that, genetically, she has a 40% probability of developing breast cancer in her lifetime?”
Google does not render resistance futile, the Web 2.0 lives on! (What else should DHH say?)