Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
22aug2008
iHologram, “I’ve just finished coding an application for the iphone/ipod touch. It gives the illusion of a 3d hologram jumping off the screen.” Very nice.
The SCP parsing algorithm: computational framework and formal properties, by Quesada Moreno and José Francisco. “This paper presents a new parsing algorithm for unrestricted context-free grammars. Basically, it may be described as a bidirectional bottom-up parser that is driven by an event generation strategy and is based on a sophisticated Syntactic Constraint Propagation (SCP) technique which uses strong top-down predictions.”
Don’t move so slow, don’t move so slow,
dont move so slow, dont move so slow
so move, yeah move.
I got nowhwere to go, I’ve got nowhere to go
— Tegan And Sarah, I Can’t Take It
Haskell is an obscure and mostly disused esoteric programming language named after the planet Haskell, a large and moving planet orbiting Aldebaran. It was developed in 1969 by Donald ‘Waddler’ Duck.
A conversation with Steve Bourne, Eric Allman, and Bryan Cantrill at ACM Queue. Suck-ass site interface, but worth reading. Just to hear they all still use vi.
Morseall allows you to control your Linux computer by tapping morse code on the mouse buttons. -/…./../… .-./—/-.-./-.-/…!
Melliès on Functorial Boxes, “John once mentioned the slides of Paul-André Melliès’s talk Functorial boxes in string diagrams. Now you can read a 44 page tutorial on this topic.”
Corpse kept upright for 3-day wake in Puerto Rico, why not.
If I had rubies and riches and crowns
I’d buy the whole world and change things around
I’d throw all the guns and the tanks in the sea
For they are mistakes of a past history.
Let me die in my footsteps
Before I go down under the ground.
— Bob Dylan, Let Me Die In My Footsteps
Websense reports China Netcom DNS cache poisoning, let the games begin.
Chain.js is a jQuery plugin, providing data-binding capability that allows you to generate web contents automatically by binding your data to html.
Package Management Sudoku, WJW. “As it happens, a little-known fact about the Debian packaging system is that you can, in fact, describe Sudoku puzzles in it!”