Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
17mar2008
An Imperfect Ten, a short movie wherein one man breaks all ten commandments before breakfast. Great.
An Embedded ALGOL-like language in Prolog, I await a Lambda-Prolog revival…
The wheel is turning
and you can’t slow down
You can’t let go
and you can’t hold on
You can’t go back
and you can’t stand still
If the thunder don’t get you
then the lightning will
— Grateful Dead, The Wheel
Secrets of JavaScript Libraries, SXSW 2008 slides by Sam Stephenson, Alex Russell, Thomas Fuchs, and Andrew Dupont.
The Quake III Arena Bot (PDF), thesis(!) by J.M.P. van Waveren.
Sind Soldaten Faxgeräte?, von Wiglaf Droste.
Zendo: Design History, “Zendo is one of those creations that makes people slap their foreheads and say “why didn’t I think of that?” It’s just so darned simple. Surely the idea must have sprung fully-formed into its designer’s brain, just ready to be played? What else could possibly have been required? A weekend of tinkering, perhaps, but certainly no more than that?”
Ur-Scheme by Kragen Sitaker is a compiler from a small subset of R5RS Scheme to Intel x86 assembly language for Linux. It can compile itself. It is free software, licensed under the GNU GPLv3+.
From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems, extensive post by Jeremy Reimer.
Mason was a mighty man
A mighty man was he
All he said: when I’m dead and gone
don’t you weep for me
— Grateful Dead, Mason’s Children
RAD (Ruby Arduino Development) is a framework for programming the Arduino physcial computing platform using Ruby. RAD converts Ruby scripts written using a set of Rails-like conventions and helpers into C source code which can be compiled and run on the Arduino microcontroller. Also offers inline assembler support now.
Bloop is the name given to an ultra-low frequency underwater sound detected by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration several times during the summer of 1997. The source of the sound remains unknown. “Because the Bloop noise originated near the location of the sunken city of R’lyeh from H.P. Lovecraft’s story “The Call of Cthulhu”, the Bloop has been linked to Cthulhu by Lovecraft fans”.
Lolthulhu: Cthulhu fhtagn Cheezburger, I love it.
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