The Noughtie List: the 2000s in Review
Best New Blogs of 2009, according to The Bygone Bureau.
What Matters Now, “Now, more than ever, we need a different way of thinking, a useful way to focus and the energy to turn the game around.” By Seth Godin. Recommeded.
Ham sandwich theorem, “given any sandwich composed of bread, ham, and cheese, there is a plane that cuts the sandwich into two pieces that contain equal amounts of bread, equal amounts of ham, and equal amounts of cheese.”
The power of Origami, “the modern mathematicians Humiaki Huzita and Koshiro Hatori devised a complete set of axioms to describe origami geometry.” Can solve any cubic!
World’s shortest explanation of Gödel’s theorem, just one screenful.
Mathematically Correct Breakfast: How to Slice a Bagel into Two Linked Halves, by George W. Hart.
Kaleidocycles, twistable paper objects.
I’ll never turn
I’ll never bend
I’m with ya now
until the end
— The Nightwatchman, Until The End*
Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach, Russ Cox explains how to implement regexps.
Notmuch is not much of an email program. It doesn’t receive messages (no POP or IMAP suport). It doesn’t send messages (no mail composer, no network code at all). And for what it does do (email search) that work is provided by an external library, Xapian. So if Notmuch provides no user interface and Xapian does all the heavy lifting, then what’s left here? Not much.
_why’s Estate, “Everything _why has published on the internet should be accessible from here.”
The C Programming Language, by Brian W Kernighan, Dennis M Ritchie, and HP Lovecraft(!).
Lost in the Filth Simulacrum, “Is 4chan the Future of Human Consciousness?”
The problem of dogmatism, Oskari Kuusela on why Wittgenstein rejected theories.
Vincent van Gogh: The Letters, view all 902 of his letters.
Eric Gill’s R: the Italian connection
The Anatomy of Ruins, by Bryan Finoki. “New American landscapes: varieties of blight, idylls of desolation, the lifespan of decay.”
The Limitless Complexity Of Vasco Maurao
Ansel Adams’ Lost Los Angeles Found
In 1969 the goat was burned on New Year’s Eve.
dead girls, a tumblr. NSFW.
Rotating Kitchen, this is art.