Hall’s Law: the maximum complexity of artifacts that can be manufactured at scales limited only by resource availability doubles every 10 years. 

Author and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow sheds light on the twisted logic connecting publishers, ebooks, DRM and user lock-in into certain ebook platforms.

Using a Rhino mass as a 3D underlay to create a Revit mass from...

Dour riff on Google's announcement that they are tying together users' interactions/identifies on various G products Thx +andrew bolt

I quite liked the idea of a light JSON RPC that still works even if you ignore it. I need to think about how to achieve a pipe at Lisp function-call level: a workable syntax is easy with an operative (or a fexpr or macro), though I'd need a read macro to do proper pipe syntax using ‘|’; the problem is in not needing full output from A before B can start processing it. I can't think of a way to unify that with function application. All I can come up with is a higher-level dedicated streaming interface. It could be interoperable with normal linked-list/cons-tree function calls but that would need the support built in somewhere; where?

"Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10 popular construction toys."

Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10 popular construction toys.

RT @SinkDeep: Connect *everything* The Free Universal Construction Kit. #interoperability

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