Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
13dec2007
I still miss Leslie, Jason Kottke says. I do as well, and I regret not making a recursive wget of her site (as I have done when others died).
A Self-Applicable Partial Evaluator for Term Rewriting Systems (PDF), by Anders Bondorf. My ideas existed in 1989.
pcl: A Robust Monadic Parser Combinator Library for OCaml (PDF), by Chris Casinghino. Pretty nice, even without do-syntax.
That new day is just over the horizon, and by working together, we will awaken to that dawn. — Håkon Wium Lie, An open letter to the Web community
A Type-directed, On-line, Partial Evaluator for a Polymorphic Language, by Tim Sheard. This is amazingly powerful.
Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wii Remote, WJW.
Anti-Alkohol-Werbung wirkt kontraproduktiv, von Peter Mühlbauer. “Wissenschaftler fanden heraus, dass Saufexzesse bei britischen Jugendlichen das Sozialprestige steigern.” Darauf trinke ich einen!
She’s a princess, in a red dress
She’s the moon in the mist to me
She’s my Coney Island Baby
She’s my Coney Island Girl
— Tom Waits, Coney Island Baby
You Got It, You Sell It, And You Still Got It, Scrymarch on Richard Prince: Spiritual America, at the Guggenheim 2007.
Nemo, “It’s a new way of managing files. Or rather not manage
files. Currently it’s a cross between a calendar and a file browser
with labels.” Much like my mess
.
Leuchtende Katzen, falls noch jemand ein Weihnachtsgeschenk sucht… jk.
Movable Type Open Source, it’s never too late.
Yet Another Perl 6 Operator: Boolean Operators, by Adriano Ferreira. Empty arrays are false…
The Husband Who Would Not Die, “John Darwin was living in a secret passageway connected to his old master bedroom. That is, before he fled to Panama. He’d sneak out through a secret door in the back of the closet at night and sleep next to his wife, warm and cuddly. The next day he’d go back into his secret room and read BLDGBLOG. He had faked his own death, see, to avoid paying bills.”
The New(er) Typography: Counterless, Bold and mostly Geometric, I like it.
I can’t explain the process in my brain
All I say comes out the same
Like white noise
I’ve been the one
— God Lives Underwater, White Noise
CUFP write-up, a write-up of the Commercial Users of Functional Programming meeting held this October is available, for those of us who didn’t attend.
Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery, by Simon Willison at 24ways.
anamorphic menorah, this rocks.
cutting edge maps, what a work.