Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
24jun2008
Introducing Buckybase, a social web database with bidirectional hyperlinks, by Manuel Simoni.
Vicissicalc, a tiny spreadsheet by Darius Bacon. Amazingly small.
polyparse is a collection of parser combinator libraries in Haskell.
NetSurf is a web browser for RISC OS and UNIX-like platforms including Linux. Does HTML 4.01, CSS 2.1, soon HTML 5 and SVG, but no JavaScript yet.
So when in doubt just call my name
Just before you go insane
If I ever leave this world
Hey I may never leave this world
But if I ever leave this world alive
— Flogging Molly, If I Ever Leave This World Alive
My old Sony MDR-V700 DJ headphones, when plugged into my outboard computer speakers, somehow pick up transmissions between ambulance drivers and dispatch…
Revisiting Coroutines, by Ana Lucia de Moura and Roberto Ierusalimschy. “This paper defends the revival of coroutines as a general control abstraction. After proposing a new classification of coroutines, we introduce the concept of full asymmetric coroutines and provide a precise definition for it through an operational semantics. We then demonstrate that full coroutines have an expressive power equivalent to one-shot continuations and oneshot partial continuations.”
NetBSD/i386 on Asus EeePC, everything except the webcam works! (And a UVC interface is a GSoC project.)
Walk away me boys
walk away me boys
and by morning we’ll be free
wipe that golden tear
from your mother dear
and raise what’s left
of the flag for me
— Flogging Molly, What’s Left Of The Flag
The Death of Postmodernism And Beyond, Alan Kirby says “postmodernism is dead and buried. In its place comes a new paradigm of authority and knowledge formed under the pressure of new technologies and contemporary social forces.”
The city may be defined as the social institution enabling people unknown to each other to nevertheless live together. — Dirk Baecker, What Is In A City?
Project Xanadu, reloaded, von Burkhard Schröder. “Was ist und zu welchem Ende betreiben wir Online-Journalismus? Wie setzt man Links, warum und wohin?” Redakteure, bitte lesen!
STOP! Hammertime!, a Firefox plugin: “Simply install and marvel as you hear MC Hammer sing whenever a page is stopped!”
Scarf, nicely typeset.
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