Month: April 2001

Ever wonder why snowflakes are all different, but each of their six little arms are exactly the same? Read all about it at the Caltech Snow Crystals site, where they can now custom build designer snowflakes.

What’s new at the O’Reilly Network. As seen at BoingBoing. If you don’t read BoingBoing regularly, consider it. Those guys are always digging up the good stuff.

This is a great article on rapid scaling, as described in Web Techniques. From Hot Concept to Hot Site in Eight. hotornot.com probably scaled up more and faster than any company to date. Fun read.

Incredible but true. An entire game of chess written to fit within 5k of memory. Try it… it’s a pretty creditable player, at least for me. It’s part of the 5k challenge.

More OpenCola news. Tech Review sez: Have Some Code and a Smile. Remember you heard it here first.

Check out the Word from the Czar for the true story behind the illicit liaison between Megnut and the famous Front Page bot cursor.

Here’s an entertaining interview with the real life George Jung (i.e. the guy behind Johnny Depp’s character in Blow).

R.W.B. Lewis has just written a highly praised book about Dante called Dante : A Penguin Life. Does anybody else find this funny? It is intriguing, I admit: just how long was Dante a penguin, anyway? Did he do all his writing in were-penguin form? Did anybody get any pictures? Because I don’t think his parents are going to believe this.

What’s up with the weird symbol at the top of the page? Symbols.com has a nice description of it. See also symbol 53:26. There’s no lapis like a lapis philosophorum, I always say. Read more about the philosopher’s stone here, or if you prefer, here.

Something interesting is going on here. Cory Doctorow (see craphound.com) and Mark Frauenfelder collaborate on one of my favorite blogs, BoingBoing. Cory Doctorow is working for OpenCola. Here is an article about OpenCola in the Industry Standard my Mark Frauenfelder. OpenCola is one worth watching.