Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
11may2007
The Art of Words, Kurt Cagle on the future of writing and publishing.
Ramaze 0.1 has been released. Kudos to manveru.
mymuesli.com, “Stell’ Dir Dein Müsli selbst zusammen. Wir liefern es Dir nach Hause.” Genial!
“Der große Selbstbetrug” von Kai Diekmann.
And they don’t give the answers
At the end of the test
So you can’t simply stand there and hope for the best
So wake me up at the border
When we reach Mexico
I’ll tell you a secret I don’t even know
— Aimee Mann, King of The Jailhouse
Helvetica at 50, BBC News. For some reason, I only like it in print, but not on screen. Can’t figure why.
Tsujigiri (辻斬) is a Japanese term for someone who, after receiving a new katana or developing a new fighting style or weapon, tests its effectiveness by attacking a human opponent.
Theories for Algorithm Calculation (PDF), thesis of Johan Theodoor Jeuring. Very interesting because it uses a lot of Squiggol.
Knuth-Morris-Pratt in Haskell, the classic string search algorithm.
Understanding ActiveRecord: A Gentle Introduction to the Heart of Rails, second part, by Gregory Brown.
quality of Google searches?, danah boyd thinks it went down. I agree.
Tokyo Revelation, “Japanese photographer Hisaharu Motada [sic] envisions the radioactive and decomposing cityscapes of post-apocalyptic Tokyo in his Neo-Ruins series of photographs.”
Science Fiction and the City: Film Fest Recap at BLDG BLOG.
Rethinking the Linux Distribution, by George Belotsky. “This article ties together a number of exciting ideas in the Free/Open Source (FOSS) community, to suggest a new direction for the Linux distribution.”
Web 2.0: So easy a 14 year old can do it, if that’s real: WJW.
Pickler Combinators, by Andrew Kennedy. “The tedium of writing pickling and unpickling functions by hand is relieved using a combinator library similar in spirit to the well-known parser combinators.”
Everyday Perl 6, by Jonathan Scott Duff. “Perl 6 will soon be here.”
XML Parser Benchmarks: Part 1, by Matthias Farwick and Michael Hafner. Java-heavy. (And no expat?)
Here’s to Cisco an’ Sonny an’ Leadbelly too,
An’ to all the good people that traveled with you.
Here’s to the hearts and the hands of the men
That come with the dust and are gone with the wind.
— Bob Dylan, Song To Woody
Transforming JSON, with FXSL. Please!
The Paxos algorithm for consensus in a message-passing system was first described by Lamport in 1990 in a tech report that was widely considered to be a joke. A followable description.
Paxos Made Simple (PDF), by Leslie Lamport. As if.
Dunbar’s number, which is 150, represents a theoretical maximum number of individuals with whom a set of people can maintain a social relationship, the kind of relationship that goes with knowing who each person is and how each person relates socially to every other person.
The Mind of a Web Developer: An Illustrated Diagram, very true.
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