Anarchaia

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

11dec2007

Purely Functional Data Structures in OCaml, ported by Markus Mottl.

Computer broken, Joi Ito gives an example of where it’s good to have a backup handy.

Capa-Capa beery
force fed Queeny
as Spanky Para-Faucet
led Horsey to the water
— The Elastic Purejoy, Monkey Bone-Walker

giving back, danah boyd says: “As those who have followed this blog for a long time know, December is the month where I contribute 10% of my salary to worthwhile charities and encourage you to do the same.”

CIMG1843 by sp4rkl370

Ruby Dev Tools Survey Results, by Pat Eyler. I’d be interested to know how many use test/spec…

Tracking Christmas Cheer with Google Charts, Brian Suda gives a quick intro.

Polly Anne lived an accident life,
She sang and danced with the wrong man.
And when she laughed,
She made everyone cry.
Polly Anne was an accident.
An accident.
— Agent Sparks, Polly Anne

IMAG0162 by infilter

David H. Shepard, 84, Dies; Optical Reader Inventor, “David H. Shepard, who in his attic invented one of the first machines that could read, and then, to facilitate its interpreting of credit-card receipts, came up with the near-rectilinear font still used for the cards’ numbers, died on Nov. 24 in San Diego.”

A Librarian’s Worst Nightmare: Yahoo! Answers, Where 120 Million Users Can Be Wrong, by Jacob Leibenluft.