Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
20feb2008
Extracting Square Roots with pencil and paper, can be very useful.
MindNode is a free and very easy to use mindmapping application. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple interface for quickly creating visual appealing mind maps. Very simple, but lacks export to common formats like XOXO or OPML.
Obsolete Skills, a big list.
I don’t have to go far
To know where you are,
Strangers all give me the news.
I’ve been living the blues
Ev’ry night without you.
— Bob Dylan, Living The Blues
Idea: A new typography term: keming, noun. The result of improper kerning.
Lustige Gesellschaftsspiele, Teil 1, …oder: “Wie überwinde ich die lähmende Langeweile im Dienst.” Dave hat Googlewhacking in ein Saufspiel konvertiert. Genial.
The Shoebox, “A place for lil’ apps to live in harmony.”, “The Shoebox is a repository for Shoes apps, and hopes to provide them with a friendly home. So that they might grow and prosper.”
Top Ten Tags, various ways to find the n largest elements of a set.
History of Lambda-calculus and Combinatory Logic (PDF), by Felice Cardone and J. Roger Hindley. Essential reading with a massive bibliography.
We only said goodbye with words
I died a hundred times
You go back to her
And I go back to
I go back to us
— Amy Winehouse, Back To Black
Watch Mark E Smith read “The Colour Out of Space” by HP Lovecraft, yay!
SMS Tutorial, “we will discuss in detail various ways to send and receive SMS messages from a computer, the advantages and disadvantages of each way, what SMS service providers are, the hardware (e.g. GSM / GPRS modem) and software (e.g. HyperTerminal) required to send and receive SMS messages from a computer, and where to find some free SMS messaging libraries and tools.”
The Internet Firelog, “If you don’t have your own fireplace and firelog, you can watch ours!” Excellent.
Adding Delimited and Composable Control to a Production Programming Environment (PDF), by Matthew Flatt, Gang Yu, Robert Bruce Findler, and Matthias Felleisen.