Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
26apr2007
AbiLog: Gestern Biologie und morgen die ganze Welt, after finishing my exams, I’m taking a few days off.
This Week’s Finds in Mathematical Physics (Week 250), by John Baez. Featuring the Tale of Groupoidification.
Vonnegut Day, “I, Mark Andrew Pilgrim, being of sound mind and body, and acting in my official capacity as… no one of any consequence, do hereby designate February 29th to be “Vonnegut Day.” The day shall be a vacation away from the busy, busy, busy. It shall be a holiday whose only commandment is to be kind to one another, God damn it.” I support.
Inkjet Printed Film Process, Video frames printed onto transparency film and cut down to Super 8 or 16mm film dimensions. Cool hack!
Faster laziness using dynamic pointer tagging, by Simon Marlow, Alexey Rodriguez Yakushev, and Simon Peyton Jones. “We propose two tagging strategies: a simple strategy called semi-tagging that seeks to avoid one common source of unpredictable indirect jumps, and a more complex strategy called dynamic pointer-tagging that uses the spare low bits in a pointer to encode information about the pointed-to object.”
WSGIDispatcher, Selector alternative by Joe Gregorio.
If tonight was a painting
I guess it’d be Picasso
‘Specially that period
When all he used was blue
— Dan Bern, Play The Blues
Learning From Sudoku Solvers, Ron Jeffries vs. Peter Norvig.
Very Earth-like Body Discovered Close By, circletimessquare writes. “The obsession of all of human civilization has just been fixed for the next few centuries.” Only 20.5 light years away.
The 10th ICFP Programming Contest takes place July 20–23, 2007.
Decidability of Higher Order Matching, by Colin Stirling.
Breathing Poem, from Thich Nhat Hanh.
Adobe to Open Source Flex, under the MPL. The best step possible against Silverline?
In a soldier’s stance, I aimed my hand
At the mongrel dogs who teach
Fearing not that I’d become my enemy
In the instant that I preach
My pathway led by confusion boats
Mutiny from stern to bow.
Ah, but I was so much older then,
I’m younger than that now.
— Bob Dylan, My Back Pages
Arc: Now Conses Less, John Wiseman found some news about Arc.
Singvögel in Städten werden nachtaktiv, mögen sie mich nicht wecken.
fliegender wechsel, hey, ich werde auch alt.
Phaux is a stateful, callback-based PHP5 web framework that allows you to easily build highly reusable and complex web applications. Considered heretic.
Hackety Hack, the coder’s starter kit. By _why.
Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house. — R. A. Heinlein
Capistrano 2.0: Not Just for Rails, Timothy M. O’Brien says. I’ll have another look.
Tunnels, mines, and the “upwardly migrating void”, scary somehow.
Ancient Lights, the right to light.
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