Adactio: Journal—Notes from a small website
Postel's Law is alive and well in 2014: afstappen van Twitter en toch niet en toch wel. En zelf controleren wat en hoe.

Steve Wozniak – Founders at Work
I built this whole Basic up and it worked, and that was the hardest project I did. Normally you type a computer program into a computer; that's the only way it's done. You type it into a computer or you feed it in on cards. What I did was I handwrote it on the left side of the pages in my program, in what's called machine language. That's as close as you can get to the ones and zeros. And then I looked at a little card and I translated my program into ones and zeros on the other side. If it said, "Jump ahead," I'd have to count—if it's jumping ahead 19 bytes, I'd have to write 19 in zeros and ones. I would write the zeros and ones myself because I couldn't afford a computer program that did this assembly job. I went down to the absolute lowest level jobs you could do. For the computer itself, I not only designed it on paper (I was the draftsperson, I would draft it on my drafting board), I would hook up all the parts and figure out where to plug them into some boards, and I would solder wires between each one.

24, the Monster, and quantum gravity Think of a prime number other than 2 or…
Think of a prime number other than 2 or 3. Multiply the number by itself and then subtract 1. The result is a multiple of 24. This observation might appear to be a curiosity, but it turns out to be the tip of an iceberg, with far-reaching connections to other areas of mathematics and physics.

N-VA moet in de Federale Regering!
Bart, laat u niet rollen, eis dat premierschap toch gewoon op! 1,4 MILJOEN VLAMINGEN STAAN ACHTER U! Vergeet dat niet, vergeet dat niet…

» Grootste partij uitsluiten is ook democratie
Stel je eens voor dat de regel wél bestond vóór de verkiezingen: “de grootste partij moet in de regering”. Dat zou uiteraard het gedrag van de partijen sterk beïnvloed hebben. Groen zou quasi zeker een kartel vormen met sp.a. CD&V en N-VA zouden ook een kartel vormen; Open VLD zou zich daar willen tussen wringen. Of het zou helemaal anders kunnen uitdraaien. Maar in ieder geval zou er heel wat kartelvorming zijn, en uiteindelijk zouden we wellicht naar een tweepartijen-systeem overgaan.