links for 2007-02-17

The way the eye reacts to changes of light

(tags: light dark eye adaption rod cone)

Smithsonian magazine article on one of the few surviving cargo cults.

(tags: cargo cargocult culture anthropology religion cult)

factorial is pretty much the “Hello World” of functional languages. Here’re many ways of doing it, including examples that go from the paeno principles, and combinatory approaches.

(tags: haskell programming functional evolution development code)

Making your bookshelf social.

(tags: book library management review recommendation social community)