Tony Finch's link log

Here are some links to interesting web pages which I have encountered. This list is gatewayed to Twitter, Dreamwidth, and LiveJournal. My main blog where I post longer pieces is also on Dreamwidth.

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• 2003-12-18: Full-screen X display benchmarking.
• 2003-12-03: My old BBC BASIC V and ARM assembler implementation of the Game of Life.
• 2003-12-03: Real-life examples of apostrophe abuse.
• 2003-12-02: C coding guidelines for the free thinker.
• 2003-11-26: Antiword: a Microsoft Word file reader.
• 2003-11-26: Egg-breaking machines.
• 2003-11-20: The Finkelstein / Shattock report.
• 2003-11-19: The eight fallacies of distributed computing.
• 2003-11-17: Incompatibilities between C and C++.
• 2003-11-14: DAB and Linux.
• 2003-11-14: Animal noise onomatopoeia.
• 2003-11-14: Stream mp3s over ethernet to the SLIMP3 player.
• 2003-11-12: SMTP client for testing MTA configurations.
• 2003-11-06: International E-road network.
• 2003-11-06: The Art of Automounting.
• 2003-11-04: Unix incompatibility notes.
• 2003-10-29: The World Beard and Moustache Championships.
• 2003-10-22: Computer Science Unplugged.
• 2003-10-17: Silly London Underground maps.
• 2003-10-16: How difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments.
• 2003-10-15: Burnt-out UPS.
• 2003-10-15: The Barefoot Doctor gets a close examination.
• 2003-09-29: Dalek salt and pepper shakers.
• 2003-09-24: Peugeot 404 not found.
• 2003-09-23: Stack Computers: the new wave.
• 2003-09-15: Angle-Grinder Man.
• 2003-09-11: Some CompSci-ish quotations.
• 2003-09-11: TAI, UTC, GPS, aargh.
• 2003-09-11: Anti-Spam Research Group document tracking.
• 2003-09-09: Large efficient diesel ship engines.
• 2003-09-03: Magic Roundabouts.
• 2003-08-12: "The New C Standard" book review material.
• 2003-08-11: Live map of lightning in the British Isles.
• 2003-08-06: ShortTalk: Dictation Made Rewarding.
• 2003-08-05: Lithium-Ion battery FAQ.
• 2003-07-09: The Battle of Imjin River.
• 2003-07-04: Bell Labs and Hoare's CSP.
• 2003-07-03: Joi Ito's Emergent Democracy.
• 2003-07-03: Small Pieces Loosely Joined
• 2003-07-03: An excellent essay on group dynamics and social software.
• 2003-07-03: What does a GSR wish for?
• 2003-07-03: On the usable bandwidth of Ethernet.
• 2003-07-02: These weapons of mass destruction cannot be displayed.
• 2003-07-02: Martijn Bevelander is a spammer.
• 2003-07-01: Code bloat explored.
• 2003-06-30: Improved data mark-up languages.
• 2003-06-30: Books about climbing the buildings of Cambridge.
• 2003-06-17: The theology of The Market.
• 2003-05-21: The definition of "bikeshedding".
• 2003-05-20: First mention of the Central Registration Service?
• 2003-05-20: Clothes made out of duct tape.
• 2003-05-19: An example Computer Science Tripos examination paper.
• 2003-05-12: 30th Cambridge Beer Festival.
• 2003-05-12: How to construct a Limerick.
• 2003-05-08: Live video from a model rocket.
• 2003-04-28: The Lloyds Bank Turd.
• 2003-04-16: Translucent windows in X using OpenGL (like Mac OS X).
• 2003-04-06: History of computing at MIT.
• 2003-03-31: CVStrac: bug and patch-set tracking software.
• 2003-03-28: Cycling up-hill.
• 2003-03-28: The Garbage Collection Page.
• 2003-03-27: A brief history of spam.
• 2003-03-23: The Gulf War II Drinking Game.
• 2003-03-21: Patent-related subtleties of the GPL.
• 2003-03-19: The Striker Scenario.
• 2003-03-15: MHTML test messages.
• 2003-03-12: Some more RPM spec files: exim, adns, userv, secnet.
• 2003-03-12: A Cadbury's Creme Egg Car.
• 2003-03-12: Another Cadbury's Creme Egg Car.
• 2003-03-10: The Internet Health Report.
• 2003-03-10: Seeing capillary circulation in one's own retina.
• 2003-03-10: The Internet Storm Centre.
• 2003-03-09: Schott's Original Miscellany.
• 2003-03-07: USB toothbrush.
• 2003-03-07: Exim RPM spec.
• 2003-03-04: Bart's Internet punishment.
• 2003-02-28: All your base are belong to terrorist.
• 2003-02-20: Casting metal objects using a domestic microwave oven.
• 2003-02-13: The Unix Haters' archive.
• 2003-02-07: If you're happy and you know it, bomb Iraq.
• 2003-02-05: Spam is the same thing lots and lots of times.
• 2003-02-04: A call for the complete elimination of joke haiku production on the Internet.
• 2003-02-04: A glossary of typography.
• 2003-01-30: Photos at the top of the Telecom Tower in London.
• 2003-01-29: I do not like green cards and spam!
• 2003-01-28: Bedtime reading for George W. Bush.
• 2003-01-23: What does that sideways eight mean?
• 2003-01-21: A daemon made from balloons.
• 2003-01-15: A computer accessory for smokers.
• 2003-01-09: Entrances to Hell in the UK.
• 2003-01-07: Paul Graham's list of spam filters.
• 2003-01-07: SIMD within a register.
• 2003-01-07: Magic algorithms and bit-twiddling hacks from The Aggregate.
• 2003-01-07: Hacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren, Jr.
• 2003-01-06: On the design of display processors.
• 2003-01-06: Security problems associated with T/TCP.
• 2003-01-06: How to disappear in America without a trace.