Task manager like the one in Windows but for GNOME. It looks better in GNOME. A bit sad I've migrated away from GNOME just a few days ago.

A role-playing dungeon crawler game for DOS

{dogsCount,plural,=0{No dogs}one{One dog is}other{# dogs are}} here.

В одно окно смотрели двое.
Один увидел дождь и грязь,
Другой — листвы зеленой вязь,
Весну и небо голубое.
В одно окно смотрели двое.

Омар Хайям этого не писал.

An ever growing list of links questioning the JavaScript paradigm

Modal programs are represented as a series of rules, formatted as tokens delimited by brackets and parentheses, applied to a given tree which gets continually modified until no rules match any given part of the tree.

<> (?x dup) (?x ?x)
<> (?x ?y swap) (?y ?x)
<> ( ?x pop) ()

.. (1 2 3) (4 5 6) swap pop dup
01 (4 5 6) (1 2 3) pop dup
02 (4 5 6) dup
00 (4 5 6) (4 5 6)

<> (if (#t) ?b) (?b)
<> (if (#f) ?b) ()

.. (if (eq bat bat) reached!)
02 (if (#t) reached!)
00 (reached!)

Domestic animals are sensitive to human cues that facilitate inter-specific communication, including cues to emotional state. The eyes are important in signalling emotions, with the act of narrowing the eyes appearing to be associated with positive emotional communication in a range of species. This study examines the communicatory significance of a widely reported cat behaviour that involves eye narrowing, referred to as the slow blink sequence. Slow blink sequences typically involve a series of half-blinks followed by either a prolonged eye narrow or an eye closure. Our first experiment revealed that cat half-blinks and eye narrowing occurred more frequently in response to owners’ slow blink stimuli towards their cats (compared to no owner–cat interaction). In a second experiment, this time where an experimenter provided the slow blink stimulus, cats had a higher propensity to approach the experimenter after a slow blink interaction than when they had adopted a neutral expression. Collectively, our results suggest that slow blink sequences may function as a form of positive emotional communication between cats and humans.

Plain text Moby-dick.

Building a so-called “Game Boy Macro” is a great way to salvage a Nintendo DS that has a broken hinge or top screen, as the system only needs the lower display to play Game Boy Advance

Prahou teaches us how to browse the webs.

I am tired of hierarchical FileSystems. They grow into big messes over time (LimitsOfHierarchies). Let's discuss alternatives. Some have suggested using various kinds of databases so that one can query or view based on a wide variety of potentially orthogonal traits.

The C2 Ancients have good ideas.

P. S. Trying to save this page in Betula shows how bad and unfriendly the new “design” of WikiWikiWeb is.

Somebody proposes something like a federated wiki. I'm skeptical.

Agora is mentioned in the thread!

Если кто не знает, откуда столько ненависти к PDF, сейчас объясню.

The venerable Dialog utility (based on ncurses, and maintained by the same person for the past couple of decades) is one option: a small program that can handle a variety of common interactions like choosing a file to open, or entering dates, while looking good and being easy enough to use.

The utility is as at https://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html.

Probably an allusion to Human Interface Guidelines by Apple.