Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24jan2008
Interface design and the iPhone, video by Edward Tufte. Great analysis.
100 books every child should read, I read seven of these: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Winnie-the-Pooh, Struwwelpeter, The Wave, Alice in Wonderland, The Hobbit, and Lord of the Flies. But children literature varies a lot with the native language of course.
You hide an ocean in your hand
So let me pretend
To find my home again
— You Will Get Well Soon, Lost In The Mountains
Editors’ Note, “Beginning today, TheAtlantic.com is dropping its subscriber registration requirement and making the site free to all visitors.” Really nice.
Visualization Tricks: Generate a Heatmap of your Keystrokes, nifty. Would be cool to compare Emacs and vi that way.
git-home-history, a tool to track the history and make backups of your home directory. Ingenious.
Xerox PARC’s Bayou Project, “The Bayou system was designed to support collaboration among users who cannot be or choose not to be continuously connected. Network connections may at times be too slow, too expensive, or too faulty for users to effectively utilize, or it may not be possible to establish a network connection at all. This can occur, for example, when collaborators are widely dispersed across the Internet or work on portable computers. In such a setting, weak consistency replication of shared data is the key to obtaining high data availability, good access performance, and good scalability.”
Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end. — Stephen Hawking
Flare is a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more. Flare is written in the ActionScript 3 programming language and can be used to build visualizations that run on the web in the Adobe Flash Player. No Java required at the client!
LBFS: A Low-bandwidth Network File System (PDF), by Athicha Muthitacharoen, Benjie Chen, and David Mazières. Good idea, but the implementation is dead.
A good tiny X font, 5x9 allows for two 80x50 terminals on 800x480. (Guess what for.)
There’s no time to waste
The first gets the land
Where we need to build our home
Quiet people build the hardest gold
— You Will Get Well Soon, It’s A Race For Our New Home
Bears, inside out. Yay.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Manuals, by Sean Mc Grath. “Markup holds out the chimera of a perfect model. It teases you with the suggestion that there is a right way to markup any given chunk of content. Well, there isn’t. The answer to “how do I mark up X” is ‘mu’”.
X Windows fonts for MS Windows, converted by Lars C. Hassing. fixed is the one true terminal font!
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