Aaron Swartz indicted on charges of “wire fraud, computer fraud” etc. Ouch. Show Your Support For Aaron.

Where Do Dwarf-Eating Carp Come From?, NYTimes on the makers of Dwarf Fortress. Recommended reading.

s6 is a small suite of programs for UNIX, designed to allow process supervision (a.k.a service supervision), in the line of daemontools and runit. Sounds very nice, and also can replace init(8).

Exploratory Benchmarking of CurveCP, by Thorben Krüger. Spawned two little projects called remotty and stdxput2dev.

The Stone SouperComputer ran its first code in early 1997, and by May 2001 it contained 133 nodes, including 75 PCs with Intel 486 microprocessors, 53 faster Pentium-based machines and five still faster Alpha workstations, made by Compaq.

Mork keeps on giving: When the database worms eat into your murder trial

Smallest Federated Wiki, by Ward Cunningham.

NSD Editor Restored, by Ward Cunningham.

Everysub, a theme for Google Reader by Khoi Vinh.

What is a ‘natural’ sleep pattern?, I never heard of bimodal sleep, but it certainly makes sense.

Stellungnahme der Urheber der MG-Installation, ++.

Anders Breivik Copied the Unabomber’s Manifesto

NYT crossword puzzle from 1996, predicting the presidental election

List of 8-bit computer hardware palettes, on Wikipedia, where else.

The famous/infamous MC14500, 1-bit processor.

Propaganda posters of Soviet space program

A Year in the Life of a Redesign of The Morning News.

A Linear Time Majority Vote Algorithm, nice one. (Note it does majority, not plurality.)

Ecdysis is aimed to develop an open-source implementation of a NAT64 gateway to run on open-source operating systems such as Linux and BSD.

Tonika is an administration-free platform for large-scale open-membership (social) networks with robust security, anonymity, resilience and performance guarantees.

swank-js is a Swank backend for Node.JS and in-browser JavaScript, giving SLIME-like functionality to Emacs.

The Video Coat, a Wearable LED Television. WJW.

Floppy Disks: It’s Too Late

Foldable dodecahedron with Calendar in TeX and TikZ.

Erich Mühsams Tagebücher werden nun digitalisiert.

Protest in München seit 1945

Repository of Records

Wood Tape

Decreasing Time to Eternal September, sigh.

Untris, Flashgame-dual to Tetris.

Lisp: The Programmable Programming Language, interview with Manuel Simoni.

Auf dem Weg durch die ferne Stadt, Peter Glaser: Eine Laudatio auf Telepolis.

I Spent A Coin (And I Liked It) — How I Bought Lunch in Manhattan with Bitcoins

Compiler Construction (PDF), by Niklaus Wirth. 2011 edition.

The Grumpy Editor’s GNOME 3 experience, read it for the comments.

Floating Point to Decimal Conversion is Easy, says Russ Cox.

Rubik’s cubes of any size can now be solved, yay!

Emotional Perils of Mathematics, by Donald R. Weidman.

The spiped secure pipe daemon, could be useful for some things.

org-velocity.el, something like Notational Velocity for Emacs org-mode.

ed25519, new high-speed high-security signatures from djb.

qwm is a window manager for inferno, an alternative to inferno’s wm/wm.

Git.js is a git implementation in pure JavaScript.

YXA is SIP software written in Erlang.

Spoken Number to Decimal​, in 256 characters(!) of C.

Evil Cult, a web-based, turn-based strategy game about dark and ominous cults striving for world domination.

Seven Misunderstandings About Classical Architecture, by Quinlan Terry.

Tactical Corsets are high-function high-fashion.

Swimwear for Shy Girls, Bikini? Slut.

The Art of the Factory

The Pi Manifesto