George Orwell's Diaries in Blog Form

Mom, Dad, I'm Into Steampunk.

“Trade and barter are more valuable to me than any coin.”

Butcher ready for Black Pudding Monday

Mmmmmm Blutwurst. Locally you can pick up some fine blutwurst (along with the non-bloody white pudding) from Winnipeg Old Coutry Sausage, 691 Dufferin Avenue.

Tuesday the 29th of July 2008

Letter/Type Doodles via a comment on for the love of type.

Sad Trombone

Or try Instant Rimshot for a snappier retort. Note: This is actually a Sting.

Silent Sky Ontario via APOD

Mix Turtle - A Music Search Engine

Those handy with Firebug should be able to figure out how to download the source mp3s. ;)

Monday the 28th of July 2008

An Inch of Rope

Stung Eye is born again. This is version 3, a lifestream.

This site is now continually (and automatically) generated as I interact with various web services.

To share a link I tag it in my del.icio.us linkstream.
To share a photo I tag it in my flickr photostream.
To post a blog entry I use Tumblr.
Comments are handled by Disqus which in turn provides a commentstream.

I feel so… aggregated.

The site runs on a custom platform that uses CodeIgniter and the Tumblr API. The code is based on a pre-release version of SweetCron. Currently the theme is a slightly tweaked version of the default Tumblr theme. This will change with time.

Various flavours of RSS feeds are available:

The version 2 Stung Eye Archives are still available. I have plans to integrate much of the old non-blog content (sounds, design, programs, words).

If you find any bugs, please let me know. Thank you kindly.

Thursday the 24th of July 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

Wednesday the 23rd of July 2008

Voronoi diagrams are a special kind of mathematical decomposition of a metric space used in a wide range of fields including satellite navigation, animal habitat mapping, and urban planning. They have also been used to algorithmically generate butterfly models.

A tactile map for sightless navigation in Korsør Station. Flickr-hunted after see another tactile map on lemonodor.

In which a Tree gets "The Talk"

from WonderMark by David Malki

Curved Hall in Toronto