Monday, October 31, 2005

Turing's Cat - an essay by George Dyson

Monday, October 24, 2005

That's hilarious! That totally random XSLT Universal Turing Machine link directly below turns out to be useful. It shows an example of TMML, or Turing Machine Markup Language that is a different way that I could do instructions for a machine: Describe it as a Turing machine (or a Cellular Automata) set of rules.
bash-2.05a$ head -3 i
HPIM0079.JPG
HPIM0080.JPG
HPIM0081.JPG
bash-2.05a$ sed -e 's/^/<img src=\"/' i | sed -e 's/$/\"</' > index.html
bash-2.05a$ head -3 index.html
<img src="HPIM0079.JPG">
<img src="HPIM0080.JPG">
<img src="HPIM0081.JPG">

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Thursday, October 13, 2005

I've always wanted an exoskeleton.
a small storm of posts:

ignobel awards 2005 video
cindi in space - NASA does Manga
Leonardo Da Vinci personal notebooks online at the British Library.
optimizing coding for fun

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Friday, October 07, 2005

To find out which version of MacOSX you are running:

sw_vers

Also,

uname -a

Reports some information, but not as informative as sw_vers.
Some *fantastic* new paintings by my Mom, Fern Ness:




Thursday, October 06, 2005

Excellent article by Daniel Hillis about Richard Feynmann and Thinking Machines

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Monday, October 03, 2005

kde/qt flowcharting programs
kivio
ktechlab
right now, i am being shone on by the light of the eclipse.