Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
14aug2007
Numeric Prelude for Haskell. Awesome stuff in there.
People with craters of the Moon named after them.
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. “In this paper, we present Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems.” Modern classic.
Girl overdoses on espresso coffee, “Jasmine Willis, 17, developed a fever and began hyperventilating after drinking seven double espressos while working at her family’s sandwich shop.”
In a notebook that I’m keepin
Beside me when I sleep
So I can write my dreams and like
The stuff that’s really deep
— Dan Bern, Thunder Road
Back To The Future: Hypertext the Way It Used To Be, by Theodor Holm Nelson and Robert Adamson Smith. “Others imitate paper (Word, Acrobat) and the constant 3D world we live in (“Virtual Reality”). Our system instead tries to create documents better than paper in a space better than reality.”
Adventure 0 original source code found again (and read the really fine article too). xyzzy!
PrimeShooter, an arcade game where you need to factorize numbers. Geeky.
How to Talk to a Physicist: Groups, Symmetry, and Topology, a fairly readable tutorial by Daniel Larson.
Bionade, I like it.
A Measure of Sacrifice, by Nick Szabo. Bells, clocks and sandglasses.
Beneath the Neon, “In a recent book called Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas, author Matthew O’Brien goes down into that complex of storm-sensitive concrete waterways to document both the occasional flash flood – and the people who have taken up residence there. ”
Staying Motivated, by Kevin Cornell at A List Apart. “Whether your chosen medium is pictures or language, food or formulas, everyone has the capacity to be creative in their work. But we can often lose our motivation to create, making it difficult to stay focused and excited on a project. So how does one keep their creative well from drying up?”
Design by Metaphor, by Jack Zeal at A List Apart. “Design by metaphor—or, as is often the case, design by simile—happens when a client provides design and development in the form of a reference to another product.”
I done my traveling
I done my traveling
From now on, it’s just gambling,
That I’ll be doing here
Be doing here
— Dan Bern, Cowboy
cassette tape wallet! yay!!!, very cool but unfortunately too small for A6 index cards.
Data Prefetch Support in GCC.
Raining Perseids, and I didn’t see anything. :/
Programming in C, ummm, Haskell, fun with IORef.
Fuck Lisp! is based on brainfuck, but instead of using a single ascii character for each instruction, it uses triplets of parentheses.
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