Information Overload is a bit early this week and may be skipped altogether next Sunday. After that it should be back to the regular schedule. "A Hyperturtle Monad Makes Pretty Pictures":http://dorophone.blogspot.com/2011/05/hyperturtle-monad-makes-pretty-pictures.htmlThis article on monads isn't only awesome because it develops a novel one instead of reiterating one of the well-known simple monads, but also because it does so using "Racket":http://racket-lang.org/. "Iran Vows to Unplug Internet":http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704889404576277391449002016.htmlNot that it's that suprising, but the amount of world wide censorship efforts we saw recently is shocking. "How to spot a psychopath":http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/21/jon-ronson-how-to-spot-a-psychopathIn case you ever wondered, you'll find answers in this interesting article. As always, things are not really black and white, there's a lot of gray in between. "The Case—Please Hear Me Out—Against the Em Dash":h More
2011-06-03