tomitaku.net (en) https://tomitaku.net/en/ 2026-10-28T00:00:00Z Taku Tomita Building a personal site without a CMS from Markdown noteshttps://tomitaku.net/en/blog/38942026-10-28T00:00:00ZI have rebuilt tomitaku.net. It brings together a personal encyclopedia of words that caught my interest and the posts from my old blog, in Devine Lu Linvegahttps://tomitaku.net/en/Devine%20Lu%20Linvega/2026-10-27T00:00:00ZDevine Lu Linvega is a programmer and musician from Montreal, Canada. Together with their partner Rek Bell (Rekka Bellum), they run the arti Jeremy Keithhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Jeremy%20Keith/2026-10-27T00:00:00ZJeremy Keith is a web developer and author based in Brighton, England. He is originally from Ireland. In 2005 he co-founded the design agenc Shinkei Systemshttps://tomitaku.net/en/Shinkei%20Systems/2026-10-27T00:00:00ZShinkei Systems is an American robotics company that automates ikejime, the Japanese method of dispatching fish, with a machine. It was foun Buddha's ear illusionhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Buddha's%20ear%20illusion/2026-10-26T00:00:00ZA bodily illusion in which one's own earlobe feels as if it has stretched and hangs down by tens of centimeters. It was reported by Kenri Ko Chainguardhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Chainguard/2026-10-26T00:00:00ZChainguard is an American company specializing in software supply chain security. It was founded in 2021 by Dan Lorenc (CEO) and others who Security theaterhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Security%20theater/2026-10-26T00:00:00ZA term for highly visible security measures carried out to produce a feeling of being protected, even though they do little to raise actual Susan Karehttps://tomitaku.net/en/Susan%20Kare/2026-10-13T00:00:00ZAmerican graphic designer. She designed the icons and typefaces of the original Macintosh, and is known as the person who gave the computer Hilbert's Hotelhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Hilbert's%20Hotel/2026-10-12T00:00:00ZA thought experiment that uses an imaginary hotel with infinitely many rooms to show the counterintuitive properties of infinite sets. Even Tsurutani turnhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Tsurutani%20turn/2026-10-12T00:00:00ZThe popular name for a distinctive way of turning used at the turnaround points of ekiden relays and marathons. It is read "Tsurutani turn." Raymond Loewyhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Raymond%20Loewy/2026-10-09T00:00:00ZFrench-born American industrial designer (1893–1986). He designed industrial products at every scale, from copiers, refrigerators, locomotiv Antikythera mechanismhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Antikythera%20mechanism/2026-10-07T00:00:00ZA bronze geared device recovered in 1901 from a shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera. It is dated to between the late 2nd century B Greek firehttps://tomitaku.net/en/Greek%20fire/2026-10-07T00:00:00ZAn incendiary weapon used by the Eastern Roman (Byzantine) Empire from the 7th century. It sprayed a burning liquid from a pressurized tube, Gutenberghttps://tomitaku.net/en/Gutenberg/2026-10-07T00:00:00ZGerman inventor (born c. 1394–1406, died February 3, 1468). He is known as the person who brought letterpress printing into practical use in Roman concretehttps://tomitaku.net/en/Roman%20concrete/2026-10-07T00:00:00ZThe concrete used in ancient Rome. A mixture of volcanic ash and lime kneaded together with aggregate, it has left structures across many re OGAShttps://tomitaku.net/en/OGAS/2026-10-06T00:00:00ZAn automated system conceived in the Soviet Union to collect and process, on a national scale, the information needed to calculate, plan, an Circular diversion workshttps://tomitaku.net/en/Circular%20diversion%20works/2026-10-05T00:00:00ZA facility for dividing agricultural water among several irrigation channels accurately in fixed proportions. Water is made to well up from Talleyrandhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Talleyrand/2026-09-30T00:00:00ZFrench politician and diplomat (1754–1838). He came to prominence as a bishop under the ancien régime and remained at the center of power th Andy Matuschakhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Andy%20Matuschak/2026-09-25T00:00:00ZAmerican software engineer and independent researcher. His work centers on "tools for thought", that is, on building tools that expand the v Byzantine Generals Problemhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Byzantine%20Generals%20Problem/2026-09-17T00:00:00ZA classic problem that shows the difficulty of reaching consensus in distributed systems. It asks whether, among several participants commun Edsger Dijkstrahttps://tomitaku.net/en/Edsger%20Dijkstra/2026-09-17T00:00:00ZDutch computer scientist (1930-2002). He is most widely known as the inventor of "Dijkstra's algorithm" for finding shortest paths, but his 142857https://tomitaku.net/en/142857/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZThe number made up of the six digits that repeat in the decimal expansion of 1/7 (0.142857142857…). Multiplying it by 1 through 6 gives, in Abe electric clockhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Abe%20electric%20clock/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZAn electric clock devised and manufactured by Hikokichi Abe (1864–1931), a clock dealer and inventor in Yamagata City. It is a mechanical cl Carsten Nicolaihttps://tomitaku.net/en/Carsten%20Nicolai/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZGerman artist and musician (born 1965). Working at the boundaries of music, art, and science, he makes installations that address several se Claude Shannonhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Claude%20Shannon/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZAmerican mathematician and electrical engineer (1916–2001). In his 1948 paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication" he showed how to meas Dadahttps://tomitaku.net/en/Dada/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZAn artistic idea and movement that arose in the mid-1910s. Against the background of resistance to the First World War and the nihilism the Digital gardenhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Digital%20garden/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA way of treating a personal website or notes not as a place where finished articles are lined up by date, but as a "garden" in which though Douglas Engelbarthttps://tomitaku.net/en/Douglas%20Engelbart/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZAmerican computer scientist and inventor (1925-2013). Seeing the computer as a tool for augmenting human intellect, he conceived and realize Hanshinkan modernismhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Hanshinkan%20modernism/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA term for the modern art, culture and way of life that grew up from the late Meiji period to the early Showa period, centered on the "Hansh Iannis Xenakishttps://tomitaku.net/en/Iannis%20Xenakis/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZGreek composer and architect (1922-2001). He brought mathematical methods such as probability theory, set theory and game theory into compos John Cagehttps://tomitaku.net/en/John%20Cage/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZAmerican composer (1912–1992). With the prepared piano, in which objects are inserted between the piano's strings; chance operations, which Joseph Popphttps://tomitaku.net/en/Joseph%20Popp/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZAmerican evolutionary biologist (1950 to the mid-2000s). He is known as the person who, in 1989, distributed floppy disks said to contain in Keiso Shobohttps://tomitaku.net/en/Keiso%20Shobo/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA publisher headquartered in Bunkyo, Tokyo. It publishes mainly books in the humanities and social sciences, such as philosophy, sociology, Kukangendaihttps://tomitaku.net/en/Kukangendai/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA three-piece rock band based in Kyoto. It was formed in 2006 by Junya Noguchi (guitar and vocals), Keisuke Koyano (bass), and Hideaki Yamad Mahaposhahttps://tomitaku.net/en/Mahaposha/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA chain of computer shops run by Aum Shinrikyo, and the company that operated it (Mahaposha Co., Ltd.). It was founded on January 14, 1992, Mathematical modelshttps://tomitaku.net/en/Mathematical%20models/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZThree-dimensional models that give tangible, visible form to the properties of surfaces, solids, singularities, and other objects treated in Missionary Church of Kopimismhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Missionary%20Church%20of%20Kopimism/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA religious organization that regards the copying and sharing of information as a sacred act. It was founded in Sweden in 2010 and registere Nam June Paikhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Nam%20June%20Paik/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZKorean-born artist (1932–2006). He was the first to use television sets and video in earnest as materials for art, and is regarded as the fo Nisennenmondaihttps://tomitaku.net/en/Nisennenmondai/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA three-piece instrumental band formed in Tokyo in 1999. The members are Masako Takada (guitar), Yuri Zaikawa (bass), and Sayaka Himeno (dru Phantom breweryhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Phantom%20brewery/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA brewery that owns no brewing equipment of its own and makes its beer by commissioning other breweries to brew it. The arrangements vary fr PPAPhttps://tomitaku.net/en/PPAP/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA term for a method of sending files, long practiced widely at Japanese companies and elsewhere, in which a password-protected (encrypted) Z RockYou.txthttps://tomitaku.net/en/RockYou.txt/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA text file built from the passwords leaked from the American company RockYou in 2009, listing about 14.34 million passwords one per line. A Ross Ulbrichthttps://tomitaku.net/en/Ross%20Ulbricht/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZFounder and operator of the dark web black market Silk Road (born 1984, United States). Under the handle "Dread Pirate Roberts" he ran the s Ryoji Ikedahttps://tomitaku.net/en/Ryoji%20Ikeda/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZJapanese electronic musician and visual artist (born 1966). Using as his materials sound in its "raw" state, such as sine waves and noise, f Shozo Omorihttps://tomitaku.net/en/Shozo%20Omori/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZJapanese philosopher (1921–1997). Turning from physics to philosophy, he built on the discussions of analytic philosophy and philosophy of s Sketchpadhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Sketchpad/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZSketchpad refers to the interactive drawing program that Ivan Sutherland developed for his doctoral thesis at MIT, and to the 1963 thesis th Toshio Iwaihttps://tomitaku.net/en/Toshio%20Iwai/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZJapanese media artist and picture-book author (born 1962). Starting from works that developed the optical toys of the 19th century, he is kn Turing patternhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Turing%20pattern/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZA spatial pattern, such as stripes or spots, that arises spontaneously from a uniform state. The British mathematician Alan Turing demonstra Wajiro Konhttps://tomitaku.net/en/Wajiro%20Kon/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZJapanese architectural scholar and folklorist (1888–1973). Starting from surveys of farmhouses in rural villages, he went on, in Tokyo after WIMPhttps://tomitaku.net/en/WIMP/2026-09-11T00:00:00ZAn acronym formed from Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointer, referring to the style of graphical user interface (GUI) in which a computer is op