Discovered on July 24, 2008
Spartan Programming
A unique coding style whose main objective is minimal use of various elements of the programming language which may contribute to complexity.
Rhinoceros, 2005, Carsten Höller
Via BibliOdyssey. Also found: Fornicating Frogs, a Unique World-View, and Japanese Crepe Paper Fairy Tales.
The Paragraph in Web Typography & Design
“Paragraphs are punctuation, the punctuation of ideas.”
The Image Fulgurator is a device for manipulating photographs when they are being taken. The photographer will be unaware. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.
Hyper (2007) Denis Darzacq
“Arabic singing bounced around the world in several directions creating what we call popular music, and […] the British Isles were central to this.” — Brian Eno, part of the Bye bye blackboard exhibit (2005) at the Oxford Museum of the History of Science.
The Development of Intuitionistic Logic
From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy