Presidential Proclamation–Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month, “NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2010 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month.”

Facebook Suicide (Bomb) Manifesto, “When someone disappears from Facebook, does anyone notice?”

Donald Knuth Interview from 2006. Extensive.

Anarchy in Somalia on Wikipedia.

vertex.js is a graph database inspired by filesystems that supports automatic garbage collection. Built on node.js, tokyocabinet, HTTP and JSON. MIT-licensed.

LISPF4, an Interlisp Lisp interpreter written in Fortran and ported to C.

perp provides a set of daemons and utilities to reliably start, monitor, log, and control a collection of persistent processes.

Stone Soup, minimalist home cooking blog.

Make Your Own Moleskine-Like-Notebook

Hipster Dykes, PNSFW.

Behind the Logo of BP.

The WebM project is dedicated to developing a high-quality, open video format for the web that is freely available to everyone. Uses VP8, Vorbis and MKV! (“Google licenses its intellectual property that is covered by VP to VP8 users for free, under a BSD-style license. These licenses are revocable only if the licensee files a patent infringement lawsuit against the VP8 code that Google released.”)

The Google Font Directory lets you browse all the fonts available via the Google Font API. All fonts in the directory are available for use on your website under an open source license and served by Google servers.

Points of View is a collection of previously-unpublished essays written to celebrate Alan Kay’s 70th birthday.

I don’t want a curated Internet. Do you?

HTML5 Watch

The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat Sim City, Magnasanti has 6 million inhabitants.

Usenet Archives, collected by Norman Yarvin. A treasure trove.

Morpion Solitaire, a NP-hard puzzle for boring hours.

Derick Melander Is Better At Folding Than You

Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates

The Monad.Reader Issue 16, featuring Demand More of Your Automata by Aran Donohue, Iteratee: Teaching an Old Fold New Tricks by John W. Lato, and Playing with Priority Queues by Louis Wasserman.

Moon Letters, letters for blind based on roman lettering.

The Bygone Bureau, a Journal of Modern Thought.

Can We Solve Chess One Day?

Q&A: Alison Goldfrapp

Freedom from Porn

Animated Albums

Cthulhu Cheats

Axis of Eval, Manuel Simoni’s blog about programming languages (including his latest dialect of Lisp, ell). Recommended.

A Programming Language, by Kenneth E. Iverson. Full text (finally) online. (And many other papers, too.)

4th International Workshop on Plan 9, Proceedings are up and worth reading.

LaTeX Lab is an open source implementation of a web based editor for Google Docs. Just needs a better editor. :)

Messy Desks and Simple Desks.

Help Save the Endangered Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus From Extinction!

Cupidtino, dating site for Apple users.

Water Printer (YouTube).

The Saddest Bear of All

one million giraffes

KerTeX is a core distribution of Donald E. Knuth’s Digital Typography system. Runs on Plan9, only needs a libc.

Conque is a Vim plugin allowing users to execute and interact with programs, typically a shell such as bash, inside a buffer window.

Songs For Swinging Lovers, new album by The Indelicates. Available for any price you enter if you have an American IP.

The All New Compact Org Mode guide, nice overview.

Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery. Masonry arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid.

Kyoto Cabinet, smaller brother of Tokyo Cabinet.

What if I had bought Apple stock instead?

A brief history of fsck

The Church Below, “Hidden topologies surround us.”

Least Common Complaints About the New Ipad, by Billy Kimball.

Torus, circular Tetris HTML5 game.

The Extended Bell Curve

Facade Printer, WJW.