Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24dec2007
Merry Christmas! or what ever you happen to celebrate to the entire Anarchaia readership.
Gazelle is a system currently in development for parsing context-free grammars, especially programming languages. It takes inspiration from yacc/bison and ANTLR, but seeks to take these ideas to the next level.
I hate web sites that just tail off irritatingly so you’re never sure if they’re dead, it’s kind of sad to see the 2lmc spool die.
Email in the 18th century, “More than 200 years ago it was already possible to send messages throughout Europe and America at the speed of an aeroplane – wireless and without need for electricity.”
I waited in the shadows all night
But when he came he gave me a fright
I wanted to reach out and hug him
But just stood there, my knees trembling
Santa came and took away my smile
Santa came on a nuclear missile.
— Heather Noel, Santa Came On A Nuclear Missile
ruby_parser version 1.0.0 has been released!, Ryan Davis says: “ruby_parser (RP) is a ruby parser written in pure ruby (utilizing racc–which does by default use a C extension). RP’s output is the same as ParseTree’s output: s-expressions using ruby’s arrays and base types.” Awesome!
Composing Contracts, “This document is an unofficial example implementation of the system originally described in the paper Composing contracts: an adventure in financial engineering, by Simon Peyton Jones, Jean-Marc Eber, and Julian Seward.”
AirTraffic of Zürich, mashed up on Google Maps. Great stuff. (Works better in Firefox.)
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We’re just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year,
Running over the same old ground. How we found the same old fears.
Wish you were here.
— Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here
Using Archiveopteryx on the Mac, a installation walkthrough.
Archiveopteryx stores email in a database and provides access to it through IMAP and more. Uses PostgreSQL.
graphito.net is a nice design-related blog.
365 Chiat Days, how a designer uses his desktop over the year. I kind of like the idea of making circles and Venn-diagrams with icons, but I ever save stuff there, actually.
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