Lovely: The Webpage, an online RSS reader and news aggregator, styled like a newspaper. (via HN)

Some handy shortcuts to rename files on Un*x systems.

Let’s be happy, and here’s what you probably need for tonight:

It’s always interesting, if not enlightening, to re-read Terence Tao’s review on probability theory ten years later.

This was the day it was.
(puff pastry with spinach, feta, prunes, onions and spices)

  John Cale, Fragments of a Rainy Season.

It looks like Rogue Amoeba is the definitive way to go for controlling audio IO on a Mac these days. See also Podcasting Microphones Mega-Review. #apple

Paul Graham describes LISP as the convergence point for all programming languages. His observation is that as languages mature, the average language continues to slide towards LISP. Therefore understanding LISP is to understand the fundamental model of modern programming. — Understanding the Power of LISP

Interesting study: Looking back at findings from a series of eyetracking studies over 13 years, we see that fundamental scanning behaviors remain constant, even as designs change.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

How nice! Frank Harrell is about to release blrm, an extension of the rms package for Bayesian binary and ordinal proportional odds logistic regression. Together with brms, the bayesian toolbox has grown fast on CRAN the last few years.