Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
22mar2006
Mindfulness is the practice whereby a person is intentionally aware of his or her thoughts and actions in the present moment, non-judgmentally.
I have seen the future – and it’s goth, why not, I’d like it.
Atom as a Case Study, by Tim Bray. “The fact of the matter is that for reasons that nobody seems to understand, working on syndication standards flips the asshole bit, even in the most reasonable people, leading to seriously nasty behavior.”
Putting the Fun in Functional, applying game mechanics to functional software. ETech2006 talk of Amy Jo Kim.
favcol, the background of this page is flickr’s favourite colour. Nifty.
Liquid bread and rubber ice
Make a promise, grow teeth, go to bed
Wake up when you’re dead
— Meat Puppets, Station
CCC: Kabinett verspielt beim Entwurf zum Urheberrecht die Weichenstellung für die Zukunft und kriminalisiert die Schulhöfe, interessiert die meisten Schüler allerdings nicht.
Solar Pyramids Being Built in India, the solar pyramid works by drawing in air, heating it with solar energy and moving it through turbines to generate electricty.
The countdown problem, by Graham Hutton. “We systematically develop a functional program that solves the countdown problem, a numbers game in which the aim is to construct arithmetic expressions satisfying certain constraints. Starting from a formal specification of the problem, we present a simple but inefficient program that solves the problem, and prove that this program is correct.”
Porn euros being passed off as real, I love it.
Cooperative Bug Isolation is the thesis of Ben Liblit, which won the ACM 2005 Doctoral Dissertation Award.
RIAA Says Future DRM Might “Threaten Critical Infrastructure and Potentially Endanger Lives”, oh how I’d like to tell them to go fuck themselves.
Zeitnutzung für Fortgeschrittene, also bügeln tu ich ja sowieso nicht. ;-)
Essential Language Support for Generic Programming, by Jeremy Siek and Andrew Lumsdaine. “Our design shares much in common with the type classes of Haskell, though our primary influence is from best practices in the C++ community.”
There’s a seed on the wind
There’s a rose in the seed
On the petals of the rose
Is the smell of sweet ammonia
— Meat Puppets, Sweet Ammonia
Category Theory Screws You Up!, “I’ve been showing unpleasant symptoms. These include insomnia, lack of concentration and grumpiness.” Be careful.
6,581,061, 6,343,302, and 6,205,469, Paul Graham on the patents for continuation-based web applications.
“Experts”, oh well. “Experts”.
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