Anarchaia

Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)

24sep2008

The Loughran-Guijarro Scale, a logarithmic scale for assessing the consequences of a system failure. Awesome: “Loss of small city few people care about. this is why CERN is in Geneva.”

Clozure CL is an open source Common Lisp implementation that runs on PowerPC hardware under Mac OS X and Linux, and on x86-64 hardware under Mac OS X, Linux, and FreeBSD. Clozure CL used to be called OpenMCL.

Munich Central Station. by dreizehn28

Dirac 1.0.0 released. Please adopt free codecs.

She may beg she may plead
She may argue with her logic
And then mention all the things I’ll lose
That really have no value
In the end she will surely know
I wasn’t born to follow
— Carol King and Gerry Goffin, Wasn’t Born To Follow

Adaptive interfaces, Matt Webb: “Steven Chapman has created a way to control his DSLR camera with a custom interface on his Nintendo DS.”

Gut Instinct’s Surprising Role in Math, “Whenever we choose a shorter grocery line over a longer one, or a bustling restaurant over an unpopular one, we rally our approximate number system, an ancient and intuitive sense that we are born with and that we share with many other animals.”

too, Sergey Brin’s personal blog. “While Google is a play on googol, too is a play on the much smaller number – two. It also means “in addition”, as this blog reflects my life outside of work.”

Noncommutative geometry, a heavy math blog.

Penguin grafitti at Olympiapark, Munich by mdid

data Mu f = In (f (Mu f)), Mark Dominus has fun with type fixpoints.

Gonzo Reader is a feed reader that shows the actual page designs.

Skinning Newspeak?, Gilad Bracha considers alternative syntaxes instead of Smalltalk.

Untangling with Continued Fractions: Part 4, “With these defintions we can take any knot diagram and compute a value for it.”

The river flows
It flows to the sea
Wherever that river goes
That’s where I want to be
— Roger McGuinn, Ballad Of Easy Rider

V8 on YouTube, there are two tech talks.

I will be joining Microsoft Research in January, danah boyd says. Gratulations! MSR probably is the only good part of Microsoft.

Water trapped in a window by Daveybot

The RubyFringe Videos: Vids From The Summer’s Hottest Conference, finally some are available.

LaTeX Tips n Tricks for Conference Papers, by Gurmeet Singh Manku.

MixTube, a Muxtape clone that actually plays the YouTube video in background. Very nice, and much harder to shut downThey are removing stuff like crazy :(.