Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

21feb2008

Authoring With Templates, by Anders Fagerjord. A paper written as stretchtext, which is hypertext that can be read in short and long versions as preferred.

Nomnomnomicon, wonderful.

Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits. Omeka is free and open source.

Movement Map: 1hr in Front of the TV by the_bumblebee

All in all, it’s no one’s fault
excuses turn to carbon walls
blame it all on chemical intercourse
the swallowed seeds of arrogance
breeding in the thoughts of ten thousand fools that fight irreverance
the full moon is dead skin
the one down here’s wearing thin
— Pearl Jam, Insignificance

Hydra VM is a virtual machine capable of running multiple Croquet images side-by-side, therefore being able to effectively utilize multi-core CPUs. MIT-licensed.

Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone, by John Baez and Michael Stay. “At present, the deductive systems in mathematical logic look like hieroglyphs to most physicists. Similarly, quantum field theory is Greek to most computer scientists, and so on. So, there is a need for a new Rosetta Stone to aid researchers attempting to translate between fields.”

On Some Mathematics in Garrett Lisi’s ‘E8 Theory of Everything’, video and notes for an advanced talk by Bertram Kostant.

Well it’s 3 a.m. I’m out here riding again
Through the wicked winding streets of my world
I make a wrong turn brake it now I’m too far gone
I got a siren on my tail and that ain’t
The fine I’m looking for
— Poe, Hey Pretty

Going Up, “The structural engineers over at Hyder Consulting have announced that they are planning what will be, by an overwhelming margin, the world’s tallest skyscraper, coming in at double the height of the Burj Dubai – or very nearly one vertical mile.” WJW.

MoFi 2008 Blutmond by Luggi_

Crappiest literary theory this month, found by Mark Dominus.

Hypertextopia, a space for reading and writing stories for the internet. Reminds me a lot of Tinderbox, pre-WWW stuff, and, to an extent, fugi.

Developing RESTful Web Services in Perl, by Andrew Sterling Hanenkamp. Using CGO amd libwww-perl. Old School!