Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
09may2008
Processing.js, John Resig says: “I’ve ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element.” Yay!!
peg-markdown in an implementation of markdown in C, using a PEG grammar and Ian Piumarta’s PEG compiler.
Transparent Post-Its, WJW. Wanthave.
oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.
Politik use drugs
Politik use bombs
Politik need torpedoes
Politik needs blood
Thats what my friend is an evidence
Politik is violence
What my friend is a evidence
Politik is violence
— Manu Chao, Politik Kills
The end in sight, great shots of Chile’s Chaiten volcano, which began erupting last week “for the first time in some 9,000 years” and notice that the BLDGBLOG Book will be ready for print soon!
The Origin of Consciousness, read by Mark Dominus. Mentions “Involuntary Masturbation as a Manifestation of Stroke-Related Alien Hand Syndrome.”
A ternary search tree (TST) is a nice and simple data structure which provides a way to store strings in order for fast searching. It also supports more advanced string queries. A TST can be seen as a hybrid between a binary search tree and a digital search trie.
trish2 is a library to handle PATRICIA trees, a structure suited for large dictionary lookups. The library provides C functions to create, search, write and read PATRICIA trees. The tree nodes can be associated to arbitrary data so PATRICIA trees can act as a hash. An executable is also provided for fast search in a list of fixed string patterns.
Jack Kerouac explains On The Road, I like.
tms allows basic cvs style operations on local (not yet Time Capsule) Time Machine volumes. Looks useful.
Let the world go by
all lost in dreaming
To lay me down
one last time
To lay me down
— Grateful Dead, To Lay Me Down
When seekdir() Won’t Seek to the Right Position, Mark Ballmer has a nice story: “What I found out in the end is a surprise and was not expected: A bug that has been there in all BSDs for almost all the time, since the 4.2BSD times or for roughly 25 years…” (Honestly, I prefered reading the directory directly, like they did in K&R1.)
A Close Look at the Colossal Squid, “The squid’s resemblance to fiction’s monsters of the deep, including its dinner-plate-size eyes, has attracted global interest.” Fhtagn.
Karl Kraus, jede Menge Texte frei verfügbar.
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