Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
05jan2008
Wikinomicon, an online mythos tome that anyone can edit.
Sears Roebuck and Privacy, WJW.
Least Appropriate Uses of Perl You’ve Seen, James Turner looks for ideas. I already fear “I wrote a controlling software for a nuclear warhead”-like stories…
Vintage 0.0.1, Merb gets a Merb.
Autotesting Javascript in Rails, neat intro by Dr Nic.
I had drifted o’er seas without ending,
Under sinister grey-clouded skies,
That the many-forked lightning is rending,
That resound with hysterical cries;
With the moans of invisible daemons, that out of the green waters rise.
— H. P. Lovecraft, Nemesis
Iris is not a vegetarian, but thinking too much about that story could make you one. ;)
The Virtual Typewriter Museum, “This virtual museum, that is based on private collections of antique typewriters from around the world, is a tribute to their ingenuity.”
Data Visualization Review, by Pat Eyler. Ben Fry wrote a book for O’Reilly and noone told me?
The Elevator Tower, “Mitsubishi has opened a “test tower,” built for experimental new elevator designs and technologies. It’s “the world’s tallest elevator testing tower” – and it’s a functionalist monolith, standing at 567 feet.” Amazing.
Two New Groovy Titles, why again is Groovy cool?
Man is a breath, and Life is the fire;
Birth is death, and silence the choir
Wrest from the aeons the heart of gold!
Tear from the fabric the threads that are old!
Life! Ah, Life!
— H. P. Lovecraft, Life’s Mystery
Sylver Coinage is a mathematical game invented by John Horton Conway. Two players take turns choosing numbers, which represent denominations of money. A player may not name a number that can be expressed as a sum (with multiples) of some previously chosen numbers. The player who names 1 loses.
The horrible secret of Number 6 Whitten Street, One day they were all messing about, doing chores, cleaning up, moving in, when they “found a secret room in their home behind a bookcase” – but “what was inside,” we read, “was a nightmare beyond their wildest dreams.”
5¢ Concurrency, shown by _why. Reifiying the source tree and forking, yikes.
Everything old, “to commemorate the passing of Netscape, I installed a copy of Netscape. Specifically, version 0.9b.” A sad state of affairs, really.
When Nano-Wires Explode, awesome shot.