Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20dec2006
Wau Holland hätte heute 55. Geburtstag.
A Millwall brick is an improvised weapon made of a manipulated newspaper. Damn useful.
Imponderables, Derek Abbott. Sapere aude.
Baby is sent through X-ray machine at LAX, WJW.
The crisis of unspecified specificity, “Photographer Frank van der Salm beautifully captures architecture on the edge of surreality: uninhabited and lit from within, it’s a world before its people arrive – or half a second after they’ve left.”
You go, you saw the wave
And you go, you’re stuck in the land
You go, too many are yours
You go, you saw the wave
— Mates of State, Lower
Parabola, by Steve Yegge. Very nice.
Intricate Fluid Layouts in Three Easy Steps, by Nate Koechley. A YUI Grid tutorial, nice. I fought with it a bit recently.
10 Years of CSS, “In 2006, the World Wide Web Consortium proudly celebrates the ten years of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), the technology designers use to create attractive, economical, and flexible Web sites.” Time to finally implement it?
Galileo told us, this world is not the center of the universe
The sun don’t go around us
We go around the sun
And the sun is actually really very small
— Dan Bern, Comme Vous Le Faites Tous
Book Review: SQL Hacks, by Andrew Cumming and Gordon Russell. Reviewed by Cameron Laird. Isn’t every SQL book about hacks? ;)
Evaluating cellular automata is comonadic, “[W]henever you see large datastructures pieced together from lots of small but similar computations there’s a good chance that we’re dealing with a comonad.”