- ARCHIVE / October, 2010
- A video that may convince you that LISPers are a bit crazy
Actually it’s not just a video, there’s a book too: Land of Lisp, Learn to Program in Lisp, One Game at a Time! by Conrad Barski, M.D. …
- Ozric Tentacles live @ Islington Academy, London
The lineup featured Ed Wynne (guitar, synths), Ed’s wife Brandi Wynne (bass, keyboards), Silas Wynne (synths, keyboards – Ed’s son) and Oliver Seagle (drums, percussion). Can’t say I haven’t missed the old line up, with “Jumping Jon” Egan, who used to dance around the stage in a trance-like manner while playing a variety of flutes… […]
- Jeff Beck live at the Royal Albert Hall
Quite an amazing evening with Beck rocking the RAH out the other night; the man is well over 60 (born 24 June 1944) but still performs with great confidence and inventiveness. I loved every minute of it!
- Editing PDF metadata on OSx (ie: having the Kindle display the right title/author with pdfs)
One of the cool things you get to do with a Kindle is being able to access your pdf library on the go; however soon enough I ran into the problem of getting all the pdf files to show up with the right metadata, e.g. name, author, creator etc.. I thought that was a simple […]
- This tube can make or break presidents, popes, prime ministers
“This tube is the most awesome goddamn force in the whole godless world…..” I’ve never watched this 1976 classic – The Network – but after listening to the short clip below it’s now high on my priority list. It applies so well to what’s going on in Italy with the media, and some say, worldwide […]
- Gmail labels sorting order
Gmail’s labels are great for they let you organize your constantly growing mailbox in a non-final way. That is, using the ‘tagging’ concept, you can assign the same tag to multiple items, or different tags to the same items, add/remove tags etc etc. All of this is well known and documented. One thing though still […]
- Amazon’s Kindle is slowly changing my life
I’ve been very reluctant to buy the Amazon Kindle at first, but since I got it I’ve realized more and more that that was the right decision, and I’ll tell you why. The other worthy candidate of my hard sweated money was Apple’s iPad – which at first sight looks much cooler and more versatile. […]
- Impromptu 2.5 released
Good news for livecoders: a new version of Impromptu is available (direct link to the 2.5 dmg package). Apart from various bug fixes, it looks like as if the major development is the ICR (impromptu compiler runtime), a new set of scheme functions that facilitate the creation of faster bytecode, so that computationally-intensive tasks such […]
- Mathematics and our body
“Where Mathematics Comes From: How the Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics into Being” [amazon link] is a recent book by cognitive scientists George Lakoff and Rafael Nuñez, in which they argue that the origin of our mathematical ideas (even the most abstract and immaterial) is to be found in the materiality of our everyday experience. That […]
Parerga und Paralipomena / At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded – Wittgenstein
