Salvador Dali appearing on “What’s my line?”
At the University of Tokyo, a professor is leading a research team working on building a paper aeroplane that can fly back to earth from a launch in orbit.
Once upon a time, I used to earn a living using awk to do neat things it shouldn’t be used for. I never came up with anything as sexy as this though . These days, awk mostly stays in the toolbox, and I just use perl.
Imagine the fun you could have sneaking round your local technology emporium and judiciously applying one of these labels to anything you think deserves it.
Generate PDF pages of specifically dimensioned graph paper suitable for printing. There are companion generators for posting labels and various calendars.
Photos of smalltalk on the Xerox Alto . This is what the future looked like in 1979.
Another reason why Vinyl is superior to CD or downloads as an audio format.
mjd presents an interesting perl module ; works as a catalogue of interesting features from perl’s module loading and object system. All my favourite stunt perl is here, AUTOLOAD, UNIVERSAL, walking the symbol table, the magic goto - but also several tricks I’ve never thought of.
Ever wondered about building your own emacs, perhaps with blackjack and hookers? Here’s a book that explains how you might go about it.
Mac OS X doesn’t have a /proc filesystem , but it does have MacFuse , which allows for simpler filesystem development in user space. Now bbum has written a MacFuse app which allows you to mount the live Objective C runtime as a filesystem.