Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
09oct2007
The Deseret alphabet is a phonetic alphabet developed in the mid-19th century by the board of regents of the University of Deseret (later the University of Utah) under the direction of Brigham Young, second president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The alphabet was intended to replace the traditional Latin alphabet with an alternate, more phonetically accurate alphabet for the English language. This would offer immigrants an opportunity to learn to read and write English, which is often less phonetically consistent than many other languages.
The Ten Most Incomprehensible Bob Dylan Interviews of All Time, at the New York Magazine.
Now all the criminals in their coats and their ties
Are free to drink martinis and watch the sun rise
While Rubin sits like Buddha in a ten-foot cell
An innocent man in a living hell.
— Bob Dylan, Hurricane
Text::Hatena is a Perl extension for formatting text with Hatena Style. Interesting markup.
Pultius TV remote control, “Design a remote control with as many buttons as there are channels on TV.” Yay! (Actually, I had one like that, but the TV only had 12 channels…)
Slides by Dan Saffer on Interaction Design at SlideShare. All three talks are highly recommended.
We didn’t start the fire
It was always burning
Since the world’s been turning
We didn’t start the fire
No we didn’t light it
But we tried to fight it
— Billy Joel, We Didn’t Start The Fire
“We Didn’t Start the Fire”, The History Behind Billy Joel’s Song. With links for each keyword.
Scalad: a salad of Scala abstractions, neat site, could be useful for other languages as well.
The Open Problem Garden, a collection of unsolved problems in mathematics.
Basic Pattern Matching Calculi: A Fresh View on Matching Failure, by Wolfram Kahl. Filed as: Stuff I’ve come up by myself.
RFC 5023: The Atom Publishing Protocol, “The Atom Publishing Protocol has finally been published as RFC 5023.” Fanastic job, kudos to everyone involved. Now write clients.
Programmierkurs startet am 20. Oktober in Köln, “Der C4 (Chaos Computer Club Cologne) und die Codebabes veranstalten einen Programmierkurs für Mädchen ab 16 Jahre.” Super Idee!
Relatively prime polynomials over Z2, by Mark Dominus.
LOLCatBible Translation Project, thez r goink fur teh ful zing, lol!
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