Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
01jun2007
Edlin is still available in Microsoft Windows operating systems up to and including Windows Vista since NTVDM’s DOS support was based on MS-DOS version 5.0. Yikes!
Analysis of Casino Design, “A prodigious amount of thought goes into the design and layout of a casino’s gambling floor. The layout of slot machines and card tables is carefully designed in order to maximize the casino’s profits and lure customers into the games.”
Water figures, WJW.
I and I
In creation where one’s nature neither honors nor forgives.
I and I
One says to the other, no man sees my face and lives.
— Bob Dylan, I and I
Dzen is a general purpose messaging, notification and menuing program for X11. It was desigend to be scriptable in any language and integrate well with window managers like dwm, wmii and xmonad.
The Compcert back-end is a compiler that generates PowerPC assembly code from a low-level intermediate language called Cminor and a slightly more expressive intermediate language called Csharpminor. The particularity of this compiler is that it is written mostly within the specification language of the Coq proof assistant, and its correctness — the fact that the generated assembly code is semantically equivalent to its source program — was entirely proved within the Coq proof assistant.
Inches Too Tall for Tunnel, Rig Plies It Anyway, pwned. I’d so love to see a video of that.
7568, by Sgt York. “First, they came for the smallest of us, and I did nothing for I was large.”
CAS+: Single Sign-On with Jifty (Part 1), by Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp.
And them Caribbean winds still blow from Nassau to Mexico
Fanning the flames in the furnace of desire
And them distant ships of liberty on them iron waves so bold and free,
Bringing everything that’s near to me nearer to the fire.
— Bob Dylan, Caribbean Wind
Planet Emacsen, for people living with the extensible, self-documenting text editor. Cool.
Interview and Book Excerpt: RESTful Web Services, “Stefan Tilkov had a chance to talk to the authors about their motivations for writing this book and their views on REST and Web services.”
Apple’s DRM-Free AAC Files Contain More Than Just Names and Email Addresses, the EFF says. Whoa.
Top 15 Google Street View Sightings, I love #2, Crime in progress.