Interesting Snippets from 2012-08-18

• Brain**** beware: JavaScript is after you! | Patricio Palladino

  tl;dr I just made a tool to transform any javascript code into an equivalent sequence of ()[]{}!+ characters. You can try it here, or grab it from github or npm. Keep on reading if you want to know how it works.

• Designing Open Projects - Lessons from Internet Pioneers

  The author, David Witzel, examines the evolution of the Internet over the past four decades, exploring how a wide range of autonomous, overlapping, and interconnected open projects initiated by government staff, techies, entrepreneurs, and students around the world resulted in one of the most profound changes in society across the globe since the dawn of the Industrial Age . How did it happen? How was it guided? Are there lessons that can be drawn to tackle other enormous societal challenges?

• about | electric sheep

  Electric Sheep is a collaborative abstract artwork founded by Scott Draves. It's run by thousands of people all over the world, and can be installed on any ordinary PC or Mac. When these computers sleep, the Electric Sheep comes on and the computers communicate with each other by the internet to share the work of creating morphing abstract animations known as sheep.

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