Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
29jan2007
Gosper Island is a neat fractal, similar to the Koch snowflake.
Who Killed the Webmaster?, is it a big loss?
Improbable Erdős numbers, by John Armstrong. Very funny.
XML::Tiny is a simple lightweight Perl parser for a subset of XML. Very evil, but maybe 30 LoC are worth it.
Propositional calculus on Wikipedia.
We must take all of the medicines too expensive now to sell
Set fire to the preacher who is promising us hell
Into the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn’t dream
We must sing, we must sing, we must sing
— Bright Eyes, At The Bottom Of Everything
Code Kata: How It Started, Pragmatic Dave on the beginnings. (Note the new blog address, too.)
I won’t be happy until I lose my legs, Susan Smith has body identity integrity disorder. Highly interesting.
Guide to Faster, Less Frustrating Debugging, by Norman Matloff. Mostly for C programmers.
Simple window configuration management, I didn’t know about winner-mode before, but it sounds great.
Meeting Richard Stallman, Dave Roberts recently did. (I met rms in 2004, and I don’t agree with all points. See the comments, too.)
A Definition of Closure, Neal Gafter has a good summary of centuries of language design.
A New Language Barrier: Why Learning A New Language May Make You Forget Your Old One, as a native German speaker, I notice that too.
I Confess: Cineplex Drove Me to Piracy, by CheeseburgerBrown. What’s this “cinema” you are speaking of? ;-)
Eggs, John Wiseman now is an expert about them.
Fillcode is an Emacs minor mode that fills, or wraps, some parts of source code. Useful.
rcodetools 0.5.0: additional code completion info, path settings , and a screencast of the most ugly Emacs font settings ever.
The Lord of the Lambdas, a poem in R2RS.
O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden,
voll Schmerz und voller Hohn,
o Haupt, zum Spott gebunden
mit einer Dornenkron, …
— Paul Gerhardt, O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden
Just Because You Can, Patrick Logan about the need of SOAP.
Architecture and Climate Change: An Interview with Ed Mazria at BLDG BLOG.
Do Sync Calls Freeze Browsers?, Mark Pruett tested them. Firefox needs urgent fixing…
This year World Leprosy Week runs from Monday 22nd January 2007. A bit late, I know…