Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13nov2007
Strip search prank call scam, WJW.
Trendy Topics in Haskell. Thrists sound very powerful.
Thrists: Dominoes of Data, by Gabor Greif. We develop a novel list-like datastructure (which we name Thrist), that is able to capture the typing rule of function composition.
Life comes from within your heart and desire
Life comes from within my heart and desire
Life comes from within you heart and desire
— Pearl Jam, Inside Job
Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance’s Android platform, serif fonts on a mobile screen? WTF.
Waxy.org goes full-time. Yay.
Why Apple Spaces is broken, it switches across screens even if a window of the application is on the active screen. Urgh.
Getting rid of set-car! and set-cdr! , by Matthew Flatt. PLT Scheme makes lists functional again. Nice step.
I have faced it, a life wasted.
I’m never going back again.
I escaped it, a life wasted.
I’m never going back again.
having tasted, a life wasted.
I’m never going back again.
— Pearl Jam, Life Wasted
RANDU is an infamous linear congruential pseudorandom number generator which has been used since the 1960s. It is widely considered to be one of the most ill-conceived random number generators designed.
Tree man ‘who grew roots’ may be cured, by Matthew Moore. WJW disease, dramatic pictures.
Three years with ICANN, summary by Joi Ito.