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New user? Monday, September 17, 2007
Bigbig Linkdump for Sept 17, 2007
Prison Planet: 9/11 First Responder Heard WTC 7 Demolition Countdown
Stevey's Home Page: The Emacs Problem
Andy Matuschak: Getting Started with Cocoa: a Friendlier Approach
ONLamp.com: An Introduction to Erlang
Haskell-cafe: MonadGL - Partitioning effects without giving up type inference
frykholm.se: Rita User Guide - sounds like a really cool graphics app for Mac OS X - uses Lua to define its pens!
Edmonton Sun: Party's over for Torres - good for him! And good for us Oilers fans!
raganwald: Code/data separation and Encapsulation are diametrically opposed ideas
Yahoo! Finance: U.S. Dollar to Canadian Dollar Exchange Rate (1 USD is 1.0279 CDN right now)
Lambda the Ultimate: Minimal FORTH compiler and tutorial - incredibly cool.
Michael Geist: Fearing Legalized P2P Downloading, CRIA Declares War on Private Copying Levy
Gian-Carlo Rota: 10 Lessons of an MIT Education "If you major in mathematics, you can switch to X anytime you want to, but not the other way around." More or less, yeah. I don't think that's as true for CS majors as it seems to be for Biology majors (from what I'm told by a Biology Postdoc), but it's true that it all comes back to Math at some point, so the more you know, the better you can be in your field.
OpenGL @ Lighthouse 3D - GLUT Tutorial
steinsoft.net: Shapes I: Drawing A Circle
VBForums: How to draw circle use openGL?
Apple: OpenGL Programming Guide for Mac OS X: Drawing to a Cocoa View
Chapter 1 - OpenGL Programming Guide - I'm reading through this right now (I'm on Chapter 2 I think) to help me with Assignment 1 for CSC 305 (Introduction to Computer Graphics)... I quite like OpenGL!
The Catsters on YouTube - learn about Monads (haven't watched these yet).
The Young Turks: Verbatim Quotes from Republicans when Clinton was Prez.
Erlang for Python programmers: Part II « Ruslan’s Blog
raganwald: We have lost control of the apparatus
Google Code for Educators" Google: MapReduce in a Week
Google Code for Educators: Introduction to Distributed System Design
I Need Closure(s): 'Programming Collective Intelligence' in Common Lisp, Chapter 2
Thoughts on editors (Emacs in particular)
Sam Ruby: Dare Takes a Look at CouchDB
Wikipedia: Parsing expression grammar, the free encyclopedia
Graham Hutton: Publications - among all the other things I'm currently reading, you can add Hutton's "Monadic parser combinators" paper.
List of freeware for Mac OS X
A good list of links to freeware Mac applications. Whether or not you're new to the Mac, you'll probably find something cool here you didn't know about.
Thursday, September 13, 2007
The Yankee Stadium Proposal Prank
Deadspin: Gotcha: Inside The Yankee Stadium Proposal Prank
This is a brutal prank, so amazingly executed, but wow, so mean!
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
No longer a trivial topic
Baghdad Burning: The Great Wall of Segregation...
I remember Baghdad before the war- one could live anywhere. We didn't know what our neighbors were- we didn't care. No one asked about religion or sect. No one bothered with what was considered a trivial topic: are you Sunni or Shia? You only asked something like that if you were uncouth and backward. Our lives revolve around it now. Our existence depends on hiding it or highlighting it- depending on the group of masked men who stop you or raid your home in the middle of the night."
:-(
Leaving Home (Baghdad)
Baghdad Burning: Leaving Home...
A blog post from an ex-Baghdad resident who has fled with her family to Syria about leaving her home.
