Bookmarked: [jnkr.tech] The Church Encoding of Simple Algebraic Data Types

https://jnkr.tech/blog/church-encodings-of-simple-adts

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Bookmarked: [lexi-lambda.github.io] Parse, don’t validate

https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/

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Drink Your Cupcake

The Straight Dope experiments with Kahlua cupcakes to determine two questions:

#alcohol #cupcakes #linkblogging

RE: https://fantastic.earth/@abnv/114738839733748632

Six months ago, I started a #LinkBlog at https://abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog, collecting my favourite articles from all over the internet on one page. The list has now grown to have 575 links to high quality posts, tagged meticulously by me. Subscribe to the Atom feed to get all current links and future updates: https://abhinavsarkar.net/linkblog/feed.atom. You can also subscribe to tag-wise feeds of your interest.

#linkblogging #indieweb

Fantasy Feuds

Epic Pooh – Michael Moorcock on the state of fantasy literature, originally written in the 1970s but updated for the 21st century. The title comes from comparing the style of Lord of the Rings to Winnie the Pooh. I have no problem reading and enjoying both his work and Tolkien’s, and it doesn’t bother me that Phillip Pullman dislikes Tolkien’s work as well.

#fantasy #linkblogging #lotr #moorcock

Corporate Evolution

Hixie’s Natural Log: Evolution in the species “Companies” – Microsoft’s dominance of the industry has killed off or absorbed many smaller companies. Those that have survived are those with strategies resistant to Microsoft’s tactics. The article looks at Mozilla, Google, and Apple.

#apple #google #linkblogging #microsoft #mozilla

Video Linkblogging: Mac vs. PC

Found this fun short movie: Mac vs. PC. Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. It’s been done a million times. But how many times have the Mac and PC been Transformers? There’s a strong element of Terminator in there, as well.

(via Major Spoilers, though it apparently hit Digg a week ago)

#Apple #linkblogging #Mac #PC #Terminator #Transformers #video

Link Archive

I used to keep a sidebar linkblog here, but I’ve long since stopped. These days I’m more likely to post an interesting link to Twitter, or just save it up for a later post. I figured the WordPress 2.8 upgrade was as good a time as any to clean out the old plugin.

Still, I hate removing things from the web, so here’s an archive of 2½ years’ worth of linkblogging from 2005-2007.

I suspect anywhere from 20-30% are probably long gone, but I’ll go through them later. Edit (June 15): After switching from my ancient linklint-based script to the Broken Link Checker plugin for WordPress, it turns out that surprisingly few of the links here have gone bad. Maybe 10-15 out of almost 180. I’ve fixed a few already, and I suspect the remaining ones are just gone. One news story (and professional news organizations are terrible at preserving URLs even when they keep stories around in paid archives), two sites that I know have done major reorganization and dropped a lot of old material, and one novelty site.

May 2005

• Why generic XML on the web is a bad idea
• Buzz Aldrin’s Conspiracy Smackdown
• NPR : Movie Marketers Turn to Subtle, Sophisticated Tactics
• Beyond Red vs. Blue: Redefining the Political Landscape
• A History of the GUI
• Bob The Angry Flower’s Quick Guide to the Apostrophe

June 2005

• EFF: Legal Guide for Bloggers
• Windows rapidly approaching desktop usability → A great piece of satire

July 2005

• The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements
• lowercase L
• NPR : Shakespeare’s Tongue, Heard at the Globe in the original pronunciation
• APOD: 2005 July 4 – A Panorama from Mauna Kea → Astronomy Picture of the Day

August 2005

• Klingon Fairy Tales
• Truth in Labelling – on DVD sets of “complete” TV seasons
• The White Stuff – How vanilla became shorthand for bland.

September 2005

• Alternative browsers pose challenge for cybersleuths

October 2005

• A List Apart: Articles: Attack of the Zombie Copy
• The Antikythera mechanism: The clockwork computer
• Teleportation study sent to Benford – Funny, in a nice obscure sort of way.

November 2005

• The New Yorker on CS Lewis
• How the secular humanist grinch didn’t steal Christmas
• Mirrors shed light as winter grips small town
• Real Story of the Rogue Rootkit – Wired on Sony’s DRM
• Abductive Reasoning
• Human evolution at the crossroads – Five possible futures for homo sapiens

December 2005

• Nevada Thunder » I Saw Jackie Mason Kissing Santa Claus – the manufactured “war on Christmas”
• Scott Lynch’s Rebuttal to Benford on Fantasy
• Eight Myths About Video Games Debunked

January 2006

• Failed Redesigns « Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark → Website redesigns by people who should know better.
• Tropical Storm Zeta – 27th in 2005 → Just running out of names wasn’t enough?

February 2006

• The Return of Sneakernet
• ISC: Phollow the Phlopping Phish → A cautionary tale in which a hypothetical phishing victim does everything right…and still gets hooked.
• TechEBlog WR-07 – A Real Transformer → Just a toy, but still interesting!
• Light Pollution – and the Return of Night
• Movie Jewelry Physics → From Czarina69

March 2006

• Tales From the Public Domain: Bound By Law → Comic book from Duke University law school where the protagonist ‘navigates the twists and turns of intellectual property’ and copyright law.
• National Wildlife PhotoZone
• Safer Online Shopping Guide (via SANS ISC)
• Eva Wiseman: An introduction to spoetry → Guardian Unlimited Books

April 2006

• The Cutest Human-Test: KittenAuth → Forget CAPTCHAS — let commenters prove they’re human by identifying kittens!

May 2006

• Photo: Ice Block Near Joekullsarlon, Iceland
• Da Vinci Code according to Least I Could Do
• Infinite Crisis in 30 Seconds
• Exploding Coffee – Looks like there are a few bugs in the self-heating coffee design. → BevNET.com – Too Hot To Handle: Problems Boil Over for Celebrity Chef’s Self-Heating Lattes

June 2006

• Young FrankenSteve → What do you get when you cross Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer with Young Frankenstein?
• Virtual Karma: Dad, What Was Internet? → Four months old, but suddenly very topical.
• The Cloud Appreciation Society → Nifty photos!

August 2006

• IE7: New paint job on the Pinto → ZDNet: Opera’s Hakon Wium Lie compares IE7 to Ford Pinto
• A more reasonable list of Firefox Myths
• Brad Meltzer on Terra: How I Spent My Summer Vacation With The Judas Contract

October 2006

• Mars Rover Beginning To Hate Mars → The Onion: Unmanned Vehicle ‘Bored Out Of Its Mind’
• 100% Secure Firewall?
• The beast has awoken; or, The beginning of Web 2.0 → Chris Messina on the wider implications of IE7

November 2006

• Rules for Writing (humor)

January 2007

• Starship Dimensions
• Sci-Fi Starship Size Comparison

February 2007

• Building a Steampunk Keyboard
• Ghost Rider Studio Notes From Hell – Does it have to be a blazing skull?
• George Takei on Starring in Heroes

March 2007

• Skeptico: How do you prove photography to a blind man? Edit: Related discussion at Metafilter
• The Open Web and Its Adversaries
• Friday at the Funeral – Comics Should Be Good! talks about death in comics.

April 2007

• Wired Magazine: How the CIA Used a Fake Sci-Fi Flick to Rescue Americans from Tehran
• You fought in the browser wars? – Star Wars scene parody with… well, web browsers
• Pants, Phantasmo, PANTS!! – Possibly the worst coloring error in the Golden Age of Comics
• Fragging The Flash – SomethingAwful takes a humorous look at 67 years of the Scarlet Speedster

May 2007

• Who says clouds screw up observing?
• Star Wars is like a fine wine…
• Common Errors in English
• The Roar of Comics: NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME!
• People will click on anything → An experiment in advertising (title via ISC).
• Wikipedia’s lamest edit wars

June 2007

• On Permalinks and Paradigms – a bit of blogging history

July 2007

• NPR: Human History Shows a Gift for Adaptability
• Evolution is Not Just a Theory

August 2007

• Why We’re Blocked in Turkey: Adnan Oktar – 1 man’s ego vs. all of WordPress.com
• CSS techniques I can’t wait to be rid of
• Dave’s Long Box: Noble Causes and Dynamo 5
• The Shape of Things To Come – The Absorbascon on why the new DC Multiverse has 52 universes.

September 2007

• Turkey City Lexicon terms for critiquing fiction
• 404 Error Pages: Reloaded
• The Dark Side: The cost of light pollution
• Total Lunar Eclipse Photos: Aug. 28, 2007

#linkblogging

Recent Links: Netflix/Qwikster Edition

By now, you’ve heard that Netflix is splitting their business in two: one for streaming movies over the internet, which will keep the name, and one for renting DVDs by mail, which will be called Qwikster.

Edit: As I described it on Google+ last week:

Dairy farms get together to raise prices, putting the squeeze on your local grocery store. The local store raises their prices to cover their higher costs. People blame the grocery store.

Then the grocery store responds by spinning off a separate store. One store will only sell milk in cardboard cartons and cheese. The other store will only sell milk in plastic bottles or yogurt. This is, of course, to make your life easier.

Anyway.

Here are links to several funny (and a couple of serious) takes on the situation.

• Quickster? That sounds oddly familiar…
• Webcomic The Oatmeal explains it in terms of the food service industry.
• Woot’s CEO parodies the “apology” letter by announcing Crapster.
• Interesting theory at ZDNet: Splitting off the DVD business sets up Netflix to be bought by Amazon without subjecting Amazon to sales tax requirements in all the new states where they (used to) have shipping centers.
• I was tempted to leave this funny Netflix comment up, but it was also spam. Good thing I’ve got @lol_spam for that: Netflix Drunk-Dialing

#linkblogging #Netflix #Qwikster