Is God a Taoist?
A dialogue from The Tao Is Silent, by Raymond M. Smullyan
philosophy  tao  god  by:smullyan  from instapaper
11 days ago
My history with Forth & stack machines
A story about using Forth in real world.
forth 
18 days ago
Repository Structure and Python
Best practices for structuring a Python project.
programming  python  guide 
5 weeks ago
Linear Logic
A course by Frank Pfenning.
logic  course  via:trivium 
6 weeks ago
The Elian Script
"An alternative writing system whose properties combine the linearity of spelling with the free-form nature of drawing."
art  language  writing  script  alphabet  via:trivium 
7 weeks ago
HTTPie - cURL for humans
"HTTPie is a CLI HTTP utility built out of frustration with existing tools. The goal is to make CLI interaction with HTTP-based services as human-friendly as possible."
http  python  tools 
9 weeks ago
The Miura-ori and how to fold it
Fold a paper so that it can be opened in one smooth movement.
paper  folding  howto 
february 2012
guard/guard - GitHub
"Guard is a command line tool to easily handle events on file system modifications."
filesystem  tool  ruby  automation 
january 2012
kneath/kss - Knyle Style Sheets
"KSS attempts to provide a methodology for writing maintainable, documented CSS within a team. Specifically, KSS is a documentation specification and styleguide format."
css  documentation  styleguide 
january 2012
What The Fuck Should I Make For Dinner?
The title pretty much tells everything
food  recipe 
december 2011
Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality
Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game series judges the morality of actions based solely on their intentions.
books  criticism  analysis  scifi  ender  morality 
december 2011
Daniel Ellsberg on the Limits of Knowledge | Mother Jones
Ellsberg on the mental gymnastics required by security clearances, especially those whose existence is secret.
security  clearance  topsecret  via:hackernews 
november 2011
Nature vs. Nurture: It doesn’t matter.
The author argues that "gay is no choice" is not very good argument.
sexuality  equality  from instapaper
november 2011
Computing the vector norm with SciPy
scipy.linalg.norm used to be problematic.
scipy  python 
november 2011
How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich | Politics News | Rolling Stone
The Republican ideology used to be about keeping tight financial discipline and keeping the government small. Nowadays the GOP is all about making the rich richer.

The man behind this change, Grover Nordqvist, goes on to equate taxation with theft
finance  usa  budget  GOP  conservative  taxes  from instapaper
november 2011
Paper.js — Paper.js
This might be a nice library for generative art.
animation  canvas  javascript  library  graphics 
november 2011
How to Ruin a Joke
How Internet ruins everything, or at least jokes.
internet  culture  humor 
november 2011
MOUSTAIR
"Where men meets moustaches meets hair meets moustaches meets hair meets MOUSTAIR."
humor  moustache  tumblr  blog 
november 2011
The Energy Trap | Do the Math
Many of the reneweable energy sources require upfront energy investment. This is going to be a problem when the fossil fuels start declining, because the energy supply declines at the same time as we need to build the alternatives. The smart move would be to start building now, when we still have extra energy.
renewable  energy  future 
november 2011
MAT: Metadata Anonymisation Toolkit
A library and a program for stripping metadata out of your pictures, documents, audio files etc.
anonymity  metadata  tools  python 
october 2011
Wall Street Isn't Winning - It's Cheating
Matt Taibbi argues that people aren't protesting because they're envious of the riches of the Wall Street bankers: par contre, Americans love the rich.

Instead they complain, because they feel that Wall Street isn't playing fairly. People's homes are foreclosed and they're going to jail, whereas when the banks and the bankers do reckless mistakes or even outright crimes, they're getting bailed out and paid out.
politics  ows  finance  wallstreet  banking  from instapaper
october 2011
On the Movie Set of Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky's Dau: Movies + TV: GQ
A Russian director builds a city and makes people live in it like its 1952. Surreal.
movie  landau  from instapaper
october 2011
Two Amusing Side Channel Attacks - syhw's posterous
Listening to the sound of computer power supply and measuring USB port voltage.
cryptography  security  sidechannel 
october 2011
Noam Chomsky: What Makes Mainstream Media Mainstream
Chomsky claims that mainstream media is used to control the opinions of masses. It's not because of some secret conspiracy, but because of the socialization. If what you say is too far away from the mainstream, people think you're improper and you won't get into very high positions. Over the years different members of oligarchy have managed to engineer the mainstream views to support the oligarchy.
chomsky  media  propaganda  democracy  essay  from instapaper
october 2011
Fibonacci Flim-Flam.
Turns out the golden ratio isn't the governing principle of the nature after all.
fibonacci  goldenratio  math  via:trivium 
october 2011
Software Foundations by Benjamin C. Pierce et al.
“It develop basic concepts of functional programming, logic, operational semantics, lambda-calculus, and static type systems, using the Coq proof assistant.”
functional  programming  book  coq  pierce  via:trivium 
october 2011
Why Americans Don’t Like Jazz - DYSKE.COM
On the significance of lyrics for the music, or the lack of thereof.
art  culture  music  psychology  jazz  lyrics 
october 2011
mailrank/pronk - GitHub
HTTP load tester. Think of httperf or ab. Implemented in Haskell.
tools  http  performance  haskell 
september 2011
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