links for 2008-04-10

from the comment: The full admin app also scales blog post text by calculating “em” sizes based on the slider value.

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Beyond the “uniqueness” of individual works, he tried to discover their common structural properties after noticing that characters in great fiction evolved in a system of relationships otherwise common to the wider generality of novels.

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An unlikely row has erupted in France over suggestions that the semicolon’s days are numbered

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UNIX pipes (treated semantically as writing to temporary files) are quite similar to monads. Furthermore, at the level of UNIX programming, all i/o can be regarded monadic.

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That’s what you can find here: a wonderful repository of documents related to computer and culture at large

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