Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
02mar2007
The Buddhabrot is a special rendering of the Mandelbrot set which, when traditionally oriented, resembles to some extent certain depictions of the Buddha.
The State of GEGL, FOSDEM talk by Øyvind Kolås.
Rudy Rucker: Everything Is Computation, an interview.
Outside in the cold distance
A wildcat did growl
Two riders were approaching
And the wind began to howl
— Bob Dylan, All Along The Watchtower
Who Wants to Save the Aye-Aye, I like it. :/
Highest Paying Jobs That Don’t Require a College Degree, become a brick mason!
Scheme Now!, also know as Snow, is a repository of Scheme packages that are portable to several popular implementations of Scheme. Snow is a general framework for developing and distributing portable Scheme packages.
MO bridge landing!, the Pugs Meta Object Protocol. Interesting approach.
The Beauty of Perl 6 Parameter Passing, by Phil Crow. It’s powerful, but is it beautiful?
Continuations in Java, a conversation with Geert Bevin by Bill Venners with Frank Sommers. “RIFE project founder Geert Bevin discusses how continuations can simplify complex workflows, and how they are implemented in RIFE.”
IDEs for Ruby, by Curt Hibbs. For those that think they need one.
What keeps mankind alive?
The fact that millions are daily tortured
Stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed
Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance
In keeping its humanity repressed
And for once you must try not to shriek the facts
Mankind is kept alive by bestial acts
— Brecht/Weil, What Keeps Mankind Alive?
Future Preservation, “Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.” Too bad I’m not in LA.
Classical vs Quantum Computation (Week 16), by John Baez. “This time in our class on Classical vs. Quantum Computation, we finished up the λ-theory of commutative rings and moved on to a more interesting example: the λ-theory for high school calculus!”
Hundefleisch wird in einigen Ländern als Nahrung genutzt, zum Beispiel in Korea, Vietnam und einigen südlichen Provinzen Chinas wie Kanton. Nicht mit Hundekuchen zu verwechseln.