Anarchaia

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

19oct2007

The Dymaxion map of the Earth is a projection of a global map onto the surface of a polyhedron, which can then be unfolded to a net in many different ways and flattened to form a two-dimensional map which retains most of the relative proportional integrity of the globe map. It was created by Buckminster Fuller, and patented by him in 1946, the patent application showing a projection onto a cuboctahedron. Very cool.

Sassy is a portable assembler for 32-bit or “protected-mode” programming on the x86 architecture. Sassy is based on Henry Baker’s COMFY-65 compiler, which he wrote in PDP-10 Maclisp, subsequently ported to GNU Emacs Elisp, and which targeted the MOS 6502 processor.

Park Beach 1 by alexwise

Lazy SmallCheck: A library for demand-driven testing of Haskell programs, by Fredrik Lindblad, Matthew Naylor, and Colin Runciman.

Go ‘way little boy
It’s much too late
Walk back out the door
Don’t wanna see you here no more
You’re making it hard for me to concentrate
Go ‘way little boy
It’s much too late
— Bob Dylan, Go ‘way Little Boy

Let the Tea Leaf Reading Begin, John Gruber on the iPhone SDK.

xmonad 0.4 has been announced.

How to make your student credit card 40,000 times cooler, pimp your card.

Boston Rose by Malc H

A Taste Of The Future, in which machines kill soldiers and pacify the planet…

KindaPerl6 now runs on sbcl, clisp and ecl, hooray for CL portability.