Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
11oct2007
The 6 Most Terrifying Foods in the World, yikes. PNSFW.
Hacker dichten GDL Schlichtung im Tarifstreit mit der Bahn an, made my day.
I long to see you in the morning light
I long to reach for you in the night
Stay, lady, stay, stay while the night is still ahead
— Bob Dylan, Lay, Lady, Lay
What the F***?, by Steven Pinker. On the linguistics of swearing, highly interesting.
Project proposal: Multi-Language VM, this could be great: “Here are some examples of features that could be prototyped in this project, if developers were found who are willing and able: tail calls and tail recursion, continuations and coroutines, tuples and value-oriented types, lightweight method objects, runtime support for closures, invokedynamic.”
Swiss Ice Storm, brrrrrr.
Chernobyl to be covered in steel, “Ukraine has hired a French firm to build the structure to replace the crumbling concrete casing put over the reactor after the 1986 accident.”
Explicit-Formulas Database for Hyperelliptic curves, compiled by Daniel J. Bernstein and Tanja Lange.
Well, they’ll stone you and say that it’s the end.
Then they’ll stone you and then they’ll come back again.
They’ll stone you when you’re riding in your car.
They’ll stone you when you’re playing your guitar.
Yes, but I would not feel so all alone,
Everybody must get stoned.
— Bob Dylan, Rainy Day Women #12 & 35
HDB is a small, flexible and efficient hybrid database, a mix between a filesystem and a database. It comes with a wide support of command line utilities for manipulating and extracting data. Uses BerkleyDB internally.