Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
16aug2008
HOW TO WORK BETTER, must read.
Monads are Plug-ins, and fun in ML too.
How to Design Worlds: Imaginative Programming in DrScheme, by Matthias Felleisen, Robby Findler, Kathi Fisler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi.
I wish I was a mole in the ground
Yes I wish I was a mole in the ground
If I’s a mole in the ground I’d root that mountain down
And I wish I was a mole in the ground
— I Wish I Was A Mole In The Ground
What Does Michael Phelps Eat for Breakfast? More Stuff Than You Eat All Day, eww.
Tilting at Windmills, Sam Ruby calls BS on the recent REST discussion. And Roy’s thesis (which is really readable) ought to be required reading for everyone speaking of REST.
Writing My Twitter Etiquette Article: 14 Ways to Use Twitter Politely, by Margaret Mason. Please read.
I want four young ladies to bear up my coffin,
I want three young maidens to carry me on,
And each of them carry a bunch of wild roses,
To lay on my body as I pass along.
— Rally Wood, One Morning in May
Mini vMac, a miniature Macintosh emulator. “Mini vMac emulates a Macintosh Plus, one of the earliest of Macintosh computers, sold between 1986 and 1990. It can run old Macintosh software that otherwise couldn’t be used on recent computers, and so helps to preserve history, from the era when the modern user interface for computers was being defined.” This site has ROMs and working images.
Super Mario Bros. on the Theremin! (YouTube), one of the greatest instruments ever.
Set of TEN Burning Bridge cards, essential.
Multiprocessor streams for Plan 9, by David Leo Presotto. “This paper describes an implementation of Streams for the Plan 9 kernel, a multithreaded, multiprocessor kernel with a system call interface reminiscent of UNIX. Rather than port Dennis Ritchie’s Streams to Plan 9, we changed the abstraction to fit more natu- rally into the new environment. The result is a mechanism that has similar performance and is internally easier to program.”
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