Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
23feb2007
Medieval Muslims made stunning math breakthrough, they had darts and kites, too!
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Schoolyard penis seen from space, hooray for mapping.
They say time will
Kill the pain
I say pain is gonna
Kill my time
— Ben Harper, Bring The Funk
How Open Formats Encouraged Open Source, by Mark Rosenthal. Starts with ASCII…
Dabble Commons: Call For Contributors, providing CC-ed data. “Functionally, it’s the same as our paid service except that data you keep in a free application is publicly accessible.” Great!
North America vs. the A-241/BIS Device, “secret Russian plans” for the “complete removal of [the] North American continent.” WJW.
The DVD Shelf: The Departed (2006), by Psycho Dave. I really liked the movie.
Is Snap Preview the most hated Web 2.0 function ever?, Charles Arthur wonders, and explains how to disable it. Yay.
Bayes’ rule in Haskell, or why drug tests don’t work, FDist really is an useful monad.
The decline of rape, what the sharp decline in reported sexual assaults reveals about today’s youth.
Damien has a new job!, Damien Katz now works at MySQL.
I walk down these roads, you drive them like highways.
Not a care in your mind if you’re doing the right thing. In all of my life,
I’ve never been so ashamed to say that I was right.
— Tom Waits, Fall Of Troy
Are our tools making us dumber?, Kathy Sierra explains why I prefer building tools over using them. ;-)
Group Theory, online book by Predag Cvitanovic about Birdtracks, Lie’s and Exceptional Groups.