Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
18jun2007
Six months of veganism, Joi Ito summarizes.
The SDF Public Access UNIX System Celebrates 20 Years!, “SDFers pride themselves on the fact that theirs is one of the last bastions of “the real INTERNET”, out of the reach and scope of the commercialism and advertising of the DOT COM entities.” Big congratulations! (I’m trying to remember my account…)
Blue Electric Manifesto, verdient eine genauere Analyse und Kommentar, nicht zu vergessen eine englische Übersetzung.
onetrip.org is a web^WiPhone app to help you shopping.
Spherical Designs, by R. H. Hardin and N. J. A. Sloane. A library of putatively optimal spherical t-designs: How should one place N points on a sphere for use in numerical integration with equal weights? Includes many ready-made solutions. Great. (Been searching for this for months, literally.)
It is our function as artists to make the spectator to see the world our way,
not his way.
— Le Tigre, Slideshow at Free University
SCVT is a executable FORTRAN90 program, using double precision arithmetic, which places N well-separated points on the unit sphere in 3D.
Handy Mathematics Facts for Graphics.
Mistakes in Experimental Design and Interpretation, by Peter Norvig. “By scrutinizing experiments against the checklist provided here, you have a better chance of separating truth from fiction.”
More Mysteries of the Number 24, by John Baez. “I’ve always dreamed of writing a book called My Favorite Numbers. In this book, chapter 24 would be longer than most.”
More crackers please, more crackers please
You want what you want but you don’t wanna be on your knees
Who does your… who does your hair?
— Le Tigre, Deceptacon
The Chinese telegraph code is a four-digit decimal code for electrically telegraphing messages written with Chinese characters. Easy to pick up, I guess.
10 Things We Can Learn From Apple, “The most common reason given is Apple’s rabid devotion to design.”
Flopping again! Japanese trail the world in sex once more, “Results of this year’s Durex Global Sex Survey have come out and once again the Japanese have come dead last when it comes to sex among over 26,000 people from 26 countries across the world.”