Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
12aug2008
“Music to (Not) Code By”, a hardcore Mixwit.
CMUCL and SBCL, a commit chart comparison by Xach.
Church of God, Inflationist, “Using compressed air it takes only five minutes to inflate,” the Times reports, and it “comes complete with an altar, an apse and a confessional.”
Branchless Equivalents of Simple Functions, useful.
And with the horses prancin’ through the fields,
With my knife in my jeans and the rain on the shield,
I sang a song for the glory of the beauty of you,
Waitin’ for me in your dress of blue
— Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Till The End Of The World
2008 LLVM Developers’ Meeting, slides and video is available.
Newsticker im neuen Design, wie man Heise.de wieder lesbar macht.
Teaching Programming Languages in a Post-Linnaean Age, by Shriram Krishnamurthi. “Programming language “paradigms” are a moribund and tedious legacy of a bygone age. Modern language designers pay them no respect, so why do our courses slavishly adhere to them? This paper argues that we should abandon this method of teaching languages, offers an alternative, reconciles an important split in programming language education, and describes a textbook that explores these matters.
Two Minutes to Wondermark #422, the creation of a web comic.
Make your own lock picks, “In this series, I’ll show you how to make a set of high-quality lock picks from stuff you either already have laying around the house, or materials that are easy to acquire for cheap.” Nice hobby.
Binaural beats or binaural tones are auditory processing artifacts, or apparent sounds, the perception of which arises in the brain independent of physical stimuli.
Imagination takes the shadows away
Everyday I’ve been without you
Imagination keeps the shadows away
Everday I stay without you
Too many times, without you
— Xymox, Imagination
Blue Screen of Death Strikes Bird’s Nest During Opening Ceremonies Torch Lighting, made my day.
Deafness and the User Experience, by Lisa Herrod at A List Apart. “When we look at accessible design for the deaf, it’s not surprising to see it addressed in a similar fashion: audio captioning is pretty much the equivalent of alt text on images for most designers.”
Putting Our Hot Heads Together, by Carolyn Wood at A List Apart. “How can we transform discussion sections on major sites and online magazines from shooting ranges into arenas of collaboration?”
Programming Language Beauty: Look Closure, this is what happens when you try to shoehorn closures onto an object oriented runtime.
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