Belle de Jour uncloaked herself! She ran a pretty tumbly blog called Methylsalicylate (I love the style) and wrote about autopsies before (more, more).
Jeanne-Claude, Christo’s Collaborator on Environmental Canvas, Is Dead at 74
One Book, Many Readings, on the structure of Choose Your Own Adventure books. Great viz.
But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards.
— Bob Dylan, Changing of the guards
“Typocalyse Now?” The Legacy of Jan Tschichold, by John Holbo.
Rory Marinich is back online, journaling and tumbling.
‘The Bottle to Bang’, instructional video on the LHC.
troff and friends, talk by meillo.
VertexDB is a high performance graph database server that supports automatic garbage collection. It uses the HTTP protocol for requests and JSON for it’s response data format and the API is inspired by the FUSE filesystem API plus a few extra methods for queries and queues.
Txr, a Pattern Matching Utility for Convenient Text Extraction. Obscure.
mace.bundle, a very Unixy MH-style alternative mail reader by Robert Boyd.
cuultralight, a single file C++ unit testing framework by Michael Feathers.
Chromium User Scripts, “Current Chromium development builds have rudimentary support for user scripts.” Way to go.
Niiu, meine eigene Tageszeitung, die Idee hatte ich grob schon 2005.