Experimental, impressionistic sub-paragraph tumblin' (think obstsalat)
11jan2008
The Pelican Project, book cover timeline.
Help, help!, Mark Dominus does introspection and reflection in Perl. Rarely seen these days, but good to know you can do that stuff in Perl as well.
I’m waiting on the empty docks
Watching the ships roll in
I’m waiting for the agony to stop
Oh, let the happiness in
— Sylvian David, Let The Happiness In
Wilber loves Apple, alternative GIMP binaries for OS X.
Hubble finds double Einstein ring, “The gravitational field of an elliptical galaxy warps the light of two galaxies exactly behind it.”
FriCAS is an advanced computer algebra system. Its capabilities range from calculus (integration and differentiation) to abstract algebra. It can plot functions and has integrated help system. FriCAS a fork of Axiom project – its starting point was wh-sandbox branch of the Axiom project.
Ich weiß, das mir nichts angehört,
Als der Gedanke, der ungestört
Aus meiner Seele will fließen,
Und jeder günstige Augenblick,
Den mich ein liebendes Geschick
Von Grundaus läßt genießen.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Eigenthum
Lazy Bricks, Lazy Mortar, _why points out the “hacky parts” (IMO) of Io.
Landing airplanes in the middle of the sea, The design pictured below – for “a track, supported above the water by pontoons,” forming a sea-based airport on top of which planes could land – was published in Science and Mechanics back in 1936.