Anarchaia: A tumblelog by Leah Neukirchen

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

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17jun2006

EFF: The Corruptibles, I, for one, don’t need more arguments against DRM.

The ultimate and final monolithic operating system?, Rick Jelliffe wonders about Vista. IMO, unless they seriously go Singularity, no.

Exact Math, Patrick Logan shows how beautiful a numeric tower is. ;-)

Torn by McNeney

Come Back, Zinc! by chomatic. Apparently, Perl 5 is not dying. I’d still not use Perl 5 for anything non-legacy.

Monotomy makes me weary
Assurance awakes distructiveness
As I lie in my diary
To justify the choices I make
— Ane Brun, On/Off

Eclipse Camps, includes nice shots of the dark sun.

A Taylor Series for Types, this is just sick.

#ruby-lang

15:53 <chris2> def Time.tomorrow; sleep 86_400; Time.now; end

15:53 <_ion> class Time; def yesterday; sleep -64_500; Time.now; end; end

15:54 <chris2> that only works with -DTIMETRAVEL, tho

15:55 <dagbrown> Imagine if you had -DTIMETRAVEL? You could cheerfully write O(n!) algorithms as long as you had a sleep(-1) at the beginning of every iteration.

ThoughtPatriotismus, der: Tatsache, aufgrund elf Männern, die irgendwie deutsche Staatsbürgerschaft erhalten haben und hinter einer Kugel her rennen, sich Kriegsbemalung ins Gesicht zu schmieren und billige Stoffetzen in Schwarz-Rot-Gold an jedmögliche Gegenstände zu hängen.

ThoughtPatriot, der: 1) Film mit Mel Gibson; 2) US-Flugabwehrrakete.

Powers Of Ten at YouTube. Classic must-see.

extortr, the most efficient way to blackmail the world. Whee!

168950749 by Peter Konnecke

The envelope paradox, explained by Mark Dominus. Crazy.

Time after time I’ve tried to walk away
But it’s not that easy when your soul is torn in two
So I just resign myself to it every day
Now all I can do is to leave it up to you
— Sam Brown, Stop

The Rise and Fall of CORBA, by Michi Henning. “Given that only a few years ago, CORBA was considered the cutting edge of middleware that promised to revolutionize e-commerce, it is surprising to see how quickly the technology was marginalized, and it is instructive to examine some of the deeper reasons for the decline.” Not sad.

On the Impossibility of Obfuscation with Auxiliary Input (PDF), by Shafi Goldwasser and Yael Tauman Kalai. So don’t waste your time trying.

NPW’06 lightning talk, Audrey Tang translated the ppencode talk. Very funny, for Rubyists too.