Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
04oct2007
The Munsell color system is a color space that specifies colors based on three color dimensions, hue, value (lightness), and chroma (color purity or colorfulness).
Why Programmers suck at Picking Colors, “For the longest time, I had that problem myself, so much that I decided to go grayscale (like this blog) and focus only and exclusively on brightness and contrast.”
He was a clean-cut kid
But they made a killer out of him,
That’s what they did
— Bob Dylan, Clean-Cut Kid
The Storm Worm, Bruce Schneier says: “Worms like Storm are written by hackers looking for profit, and they’re different. These worms spread more subtly, without making noise. Symptoms don’t appear immediately, and an infected computer can sit dormant for a long time. If it were a disease, it would be more like syphilis, whose symptoms may be mild or disappear altogether, but which will eventually come back years later and eat your brain.”
UCB on YouTube, very nice.
Sputnik.ogg, beep beep beep.
A mathematician is not a man who can readily manipulate figures; often he cannot. He is not even a man who can readily perform the transformations of equations by the use of calculus. He is primarily an individual who is skilled in the use of symbolic logic on a high plane, and especially he is a man of intuitive judgment in the choice of the manipulative processes he employs. — Vannevar Bush, As We May Think
Fun With Fruit, By Sgt York. “Wanna see some DNA? This is a fun little demo that works well at parties. The supplies are found in most people’s kitchens.” We did that in school once, worked well.
Bytes not infosets, James Clark says for REST security. Full ACK.