Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

06aug2007

Notes On Basic Proofs, by Peter Williams.

rsync’s algorithm, explained in Wikipedia.

RWEB is a literate programming environment for Ruby. (Much of it is language-agnostic, but its focus is Ruby.) It is patterned somewhat after Donald Knuth’s WEB literate programming tool, as well as its descendants, but has a couple of added twists in planning. (Boy is that eval icky. That said, support for .lrb analog to Haskell would be plenty fine.)

sunset giants by cornelius crab

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing. Looks very good.

Schau dein Mund ist rot wie Blut;
Schau dein Hals ist weiß wie Schnee;
Schau dein Herz ist schwarz und unruhig,
wie so ein Expresskaffee
— Ernst Molden, Expresskaffee

politics.reddit.com, finally.

Roads, Joe Gregorio on his past commutes.

Nach dem Regen werden wir vielleicht noch ganz normal
fahren in die Stadt, essen im Lokal.
doch bis es soweit ist, werden wir uns kaum bewegen,
denn jetzt kommen wir.
Die Welt kommt nach dem Regen.
— Ernst Molden, Nach dem Regen

The 123456 die, “For some reason I’ve been trying to construct a die whose faces come up with probabilities 1/21, 2/21, 3/21, 4/21, 5/21, and 6/21 respectively.”

9511 Westerstraat toy store, night, sun by blacque_jacques

OLPC project tests WebKit on the XO laptop, good idea.

The Fauxharmonic Orchestra is totally digital, except for the conductor.

Beyond time, Austin Ziegler looks for experienced Ruby programmers to maintain PDF::Writer, colortools and Transaction::Simple.