Anarchaia

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

22dec2006

Matrix URIs, “Just as the slash separated set of elements is useful for representing a tree, so a set of names and equally significant parameter can represent a space more like a (possible sparse) matrix.”

Decoding URI-escaped characters… with sed, neat hack by Aristotle Pagaltzis.

Lägereld på stranden by plinden

Are long names slower to parse in XML?, by Rick Jelliffe. Micro-optimization hooray.

(Here’s to you) raise a glass for everyone
(Here’s to them) underneath that burning sun
Do they know it’s Christmastime at all?
— Band Aid, Do They Know Its Christmas Time?

Photographic Palettes, by Dave Shea. “How many times have you seen a colour combination that just worked, a match so perfect that it just seems obvious?”

Architectural Sci-Fi, “it’s part boatyard, part aeroponic farm for the cultivation of ‘disease free cloned plants.’”

The only thing I knew how to do
Was to keep on keepin’ on like a bird that flew,
Tangled up in blue.
— Bob Dylan, Tangled Up In Blue

130 Vorträge, 20 Workshops: Der Chaos Computer Club lädt nach Berlin, ich schaffs nicht. “Die Keynote hält dieses Jahr John Perry Barlow. Ursprünglich als Musiker in der berühmten Band “Grateful Dead” bekannt geworden, hat Barlow sich als Mitbegründer der EFF in der Netzwelt einen Namen gemacht.”

Looking Through the Glass… by atulsabnis

Fuzzy Auroras, Why The Lucky Stiff is going to become a freelance professor (at an unaccredited school called The University of Mininova).

Lectures on Classical Mechanics, by John Baez, Blair Smith, and Derek Wise. Available in PDF and Postscript formats.

Mary was only a virgin…, I really gotta get that t-shirt! PNSFW.