Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17feb2008
Kosovo MPs proclaim independence, “Kosovo’s parliament has unanimously endorsed a declaration of independence from Serbia, in an historic session.”
Packet Forth (PF) is a scripting language for soft real-time graphics processing and generation. Although the focus has shifted towards generative graphics in the last couple of years, the original goal was and still is real-time video processing. PF is now quite stable and usable, but remains a bit of an odd duck in the land of open source video processing tools.
Dynamite is a Ruby interface to the Processing graphics API. This is done via JRuby, a Ruby interpreter written in Java.
Doctor, do you have a remedy?
This is not alright by me
Do you think that you have the trick?
For a city that’s so spent and sick?
— Pretty Girls Make Graves, All Medicated Geniuses
Michigan laser beam believed to set record for intensity, impressive: “The record-setting beam measures 20 billion trillion watts per square centimeter. It contains 300 terawatts of power.” Only lasts 30 femtoseconds, but whatever.
Untangled, Roy T. Fielding got a blog.
Greasekit and user style-sheets, Lypanov’s hard core way to surf.
SCC5: POVRay Short Code Contest #5, impressive what one can do in less than 512 bytes!
Electracy describes the kind of “literacy” or skill and facility necessary to exploit the full communicative potential of new electronic media such as multimedia, hypermedia, social software, and virtual worlds.
Who clicks on ads? (Revisited with data), danah boyd finds out. I have absolutely no trust in online advertising in the long run.
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls
it tolls for thee.
— John Donne, Meditation XVII
Anti-Social Software, Joe Gregorio: “Enough of this so-called Social Software, what I want is Anti-Social Software, it isn’t about my friends or my connections, it’s all about me. Me. Me. Me.”
Extrema is a powerful visualization and data analysis tool that enables researchers to quickly distill their large, complex data sets into meaningful information. Its flexibility, sophistication, and power allow you to easily develop your own commands and create highly customized graphs.
Prover9 is an automated theorem prover for first-order and equational logic, and Mace4 searches for finite models and counterexamples. Prover9 is the successor of the Otter prover.
MATHOWLIE, Howl for MetaFilter. “I saw the best minds of mefi generation destroyed by / madness, starving hysterical naked, …”