Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17jun2007
A series of very small lists, by Mark Pilgrim.
List of German expressions in English, at Wikipedia.
Advice for presentations: It happens!, by Joe Clark. This is the ultimate post on presenting and what can go wrong. Read it.
You were my oxygen
The thing that made me think I could escape
This is a thank you song for Les and Ray
— Le Tigre, Les and Ray
On Your Desktop is a new blog where Internet celebrities show off their desktop. Not utterly exciting yet, but the idea is definitely interesting.
Elevator Trek: The Next Generation, by Khoi Vinh. “We Had to Break the Elevator in Order to Improve It”
How a Motherboard is Made, with many pictures.
Yould is a generator for pronounceable random words. It uses Markov chains trained on a large body of prose. Yould generates good domain names.
Come in tower
All our data’s wrong
Research inconsistent
We misread it all
— Le Tigre, Phanta
The Day You Became A Better Writer, Scott Adams: “I went from being a bad writer to a good writer after taking a one-day course in “business writing.” I couldn’t believe how simple it was. I’ll tell you the main tricks here so you don’t have to waste a day in class.”
How to write tolerably efficient optimzation code without really trying…, or: The (freely generated module over the (min,+)-semiring)-monad.
Stupors, mmmmh, food.
Different Space Shuttles, lovely post by _why. Must see.
10 Ways to Make Laziness Work for You, “Here’s an observation: often the smartest people are the laziest ones.” Just look at me!
Domestic Manners of the Americans, by Fanny Trollope. First published in 1832. Full text online.