Chaos Computer Club ruft zur Demonstration “Freiheit statt Angst” auf, am 11. September 2010 in Berlin.

Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight, by danah boyd.

What’s in your Simplenote?, I use Simplenote together with nb and mNote. I keep there: a to-do list, some mail templates/boilerplate, a few addresses, and a list of movies I saw.

Is the Gamma function misdefined?, Hadamard versus Euler – Who found the better Gamma function?

Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets, by William Stein. Full text available online. Includes SAGE examples.

Fermat’s Last Theorem: The TV Documentary, by Simon Singh. Full version at Google Video.

Crocheting the Lorenz manifold, by Hinke Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf. With pictures.

sshuttle, where transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh. Looks promising. TCP/IPv4 only, and you just need python on the server side.

Free42 is a re-implementation of the HP-42S calculator and the HP-82240 printer. It is a complete rewrite, and doesn’t use any HP code.

How can I get setuid shell scripts to work?, and why you don’t.

The Palettenpavillon, by Matthias Loebermann, is a structure made entirely from shipping pallets, ground anchors, and tie rods.

Dowling Duncan redesign the US bank notes, worth a look.

Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development

Icons of the Web, a map of 288945 favicons.

Tron-a-Sutra, NSFW.

Christoph Schlingensief ist tot.

Solutions to three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids, by Jorma Jormakka. Electon. J. Diff. Equ. Vol 2010(2010), No. 93, pp. 1-14. (PDF). “The article proves the Statement D in the official problem statement of the Clay Math. Institute.” He wrote me: “If somebody poses a million dollar problem, he should first think that he has posed the problem correctly. I have answered the problem that was asked, and I think what was asked was indeed what they were wanting to ask. They did not know that an existing theorem was wrong.” (background)

Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson over at Howard Rheingold, video.

ferm is a tool to maintain complex iptables firewalls, without having the trouble to rewrite the complex rules over and over again. Has a pf-like syntax.

Tcpcrypt is a protocol that attempts to encrypt (almost) all of your network traffic.

mhthread, sort an MH folder into ‘threaded’ order.

The World’s Population by Latitude and Longitude

What different sorting algorithms sound like

Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste

Carlton’s Mac Mail

A Proof That P Is Not Equal To NP?, Vinay Deolalikar of HP Labs says yes. more and more….

God’s Number is 20, that is, the amount of moves you need to solve any Rubik’s Cube constellation.

Life without a CA, worth thinking about. Also, also (PDF).

Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system. Fits in a single head and is well readable.

reconnect.pl, an irssi script to really reconnect a server. “/reconnect -full all” also works. I can’t believe this took me five years to find.

noam is a shell scripting tool, with a similar usage pattern to that of awk but using context-free grammars.

Constraining Types with Regular Expressions, nice.

How To Have Sex At Work and How To Poop At Work.

The Pac-Man Dossier, all about Pac-Man.

All my friends are dead

Got some time to kill

Chaos Computer Club macht Hausfassade zum überdimensionalen Bildschirm, Einweihung am 10. August.

Gumstix Overo, a tiny 17mm by 58mm ARM board running Linux. (e.g. for a wearable.)

mfsBSD, finally a sane way to install FreeBSD (with ZFS root too).

032c archive with full texts of all issues but the latest. Awesome.

Das Linux Anwenderhandbuch und Leitfaden für die Systemverwaltung, 7. Auflage (1997) und PDF, 5. Auflage. Das waren noch Zeiten.

125-piece puzzle in 6 different metals with hidden “Golden Gun”

Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars

Amazing Amazon Box (YouTube)

Rotated Google

Bookshelf Porn

Real Editors Ship, by Paul Ford. Recommended.

jumanji is a highly customizable and functional web browser based on the libwebkit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit.

NetHogs is a small ‘net top’ tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process.

nettop, displays a tree of network usage by layer, protocol, port.

dtach, a program that emulates the detach feature of screen. Works nicely with 9term (connecting several times works too).

How to access Time Machine files from Linux, a bit ugly but it works.

Using Git to manage a web site, this is how I run this site too.

A few Git tips you didn’t know about, whoa.

Overview of Speedwords, a shorthand using the roman alphabet.

Indefinite in number, but of certain fixed shapes, Anker-Baukasten.

Inside insides, Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Foods. WJW.

Medieval Multitasking: Did We Ever Focus?

I wouldn’t write American Psycho now.

Transformice (Flash), ultimate collaborative time waster.

Artists steal a Chicken in a Vagina (NSFW)

Quantum Minesweeper

Forderungen für ein lebenswertes Netz, danke, danke, danke, CCC.

The User’s Manifesto: in defense of hacking, modding, and jailbreaking

mcwm, another minimal floating window manager. Really close to what I want.

Running a Plan 9 network on OpenBSD, extensive tutorial also for users of other *nixes.

Scala 2.8.0 final has been released! Loads of enhancements.

Curtis CSS Font, nice hack.

Lost Ships of New York City

Film Classics on Vuvuzela

Hardcode Tetris Orgy

Pictures, “I guess other people have photo albums.” Recommended.

American Drink, a blog about alcohol. Recommended.

Multiply univariate polynomials with Lisp bignum multiplication, by Richard Fateman.

Athena, an efficient in-memory data structure supporting arbitrary boolean queries. Usable for tagging, e.g.

wrttn is a simple web notepad that supports Markdown.

pal is a command-line calendar program that can keep track of events.

bcat, a pipe to browser utility.

GodBlock is a web filter that blocks religious content.

Salaryman’s Bank Performance Report, the saga continues.

Stefan George und die Schrift

What do pandas do all day?

Cocktail Phylogeny Poster

crossroads (what to do)

Never Gonna

ICANN Board Approves Dot-XXX Top-level Domain for Porn, will the iPhone block these by default?

What Broke My Father’s Heart, read this.

Oliver Byrne’s edition of Euclid, “What distinguishes Byrne’s edition is that he attempts to present Euclid’s proofs in terms of pictures, using as little text—and in particular as few labels—as possible. What makes the book especially striking is his use of colour.” Awesome presentation and typography.

Giving Great Talks: A Mashup of Edward Tufte and Jared Spool.

Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte at A List Apart. CSS3 media queries make fluid layouts easy to do (cf. the new Hicksdesign).

The “Clockwise/Spiral Rule” enables any C programmer to parse in their head any C declaration.

ZeroMQ: an introduction, very nice overview of the really simple ZeroMQ API.

OpenSCAD is a script-driven software for creating solid 3D CAD objects.

jj is a simple FIFO and filesystem based Jabber/XMPP client. jj is inspired by the ii IRC client.

Booting Up with Salaryman, OS/2 fanfic.

Brahms und Ravel on Vuvuzelas

Vuvuzela Hits

The Problem

Scan Toys

Letter to a Young PL Enthusiast, by Manuel Simoni.

PracTeX Journal 2010/1, lots of new articles.

ATA Secure Erase with hdparm.

Julio the Sewer Diver, “Most people, when I tell them that I’m a diver, they think, “Oh wow, that’s beautiful—the ocean and the beach.” But no, we are divers of the sewage.”

NullpoMino, an excellent, configurable Tetris clone written in Java.

loved, experimental Flash platformer with multiple endings.

Calvin & Steve Jobs

Vi, Emacs, Notepad

Vuvuzela Radio

TrivBZZZZium

19th August is Whyday! “Set aside that day to remember Why’s contributions to our community and culture by hacking just for the fun and joy of it.”

An Oral History of Unix, 13 transcripts of interviews with the original people.

Erik Naggum on Atlas Shrugged

LLDB is a next generation, high-performance debugger. It is built as a set of reusable components which highly leverage existing libraries in the larger LLVM Project, such as the Clang expression parser and LLVM disassembler.

odt2txt is a command-line tool which extracts the text out of OpenDocument Texts produced by OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, KOffice and others. Finally one can read that crap!

edway is an interactive text-mode editor for audio files, in the style of ed(1).

The Silver Dream Machine: The synthesizer that accidentally changed the world, long article about the TB-303.

Akihabara, classic Arcade games written in JavaScript (among them good Tetris ports).

Readability Updated: An End To The Yank Of The Hyperlink

Potsdamer Platz 1997-1999, ultra long exposure.

HTML5 vs Newton

what the hex