Obviously, Dori added all the
Obviously, Dori added all the posts today just to prove my post of yesterday incorrect. Let's see her keep it up once we're on the boat, at $7/minute.
Over on the Scripting News
Over on the Scripting News Discussion board, Larry Yudelson asks what's a good way to get an 11-year old interested in programming. Mac suggestions included: Mindstorms, StarLogo, AgentSheets, and Stagecast.
This link in honor of
This link in honor of Perl Whirl 2000: SegFault.org reports that Perl is finished. "In a shock usenet post yesterday, Larry Wall announced a halt to all further development of Perl."
Quote of the day:"Congress shall
Quote of the day:
"Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of sXXXch, or the right of the people peaceably to XXXemble, and to peXXXion the government for a redress of grievances." -- Marc Rotenberg
Courtesy of Mississippi State University,
Courtesy of Mississippi State University, The Golden Triangle Area gravity forecast. Disclaimer: We do not in any way guarantee the accuracy of this report. Gravitate at your own risk. (Via ST & Cam)
Updates are likely to be
Updates are likely to be sparse between now and June 6. We're currently in the Seattle area, getting ready to go on a cruise to Alaska. To see more about what we'll be doing, check out GeekCruises. Dori will be teaching JavaScript on the cruise; I just get to be the spouse tagging along for the ride.
Greg Knauss, on the moral
Greg Knauss, on the moral of the story.
Obviously, I wasn't the only
Obviously, I wasn't the only one who enjoyed reading all the reviews of Battlefield Earth. This poster supposedly ran in the May 26 issue of Entertainment Weekly.
You gotta check out Head
You gotta check out Head Out on the Highway... "Our travels with the cryogenically frozen head of Walt Sidney". Episode One: The Frozen Menace!
If you can't beat 'em,
If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Presenting: the Y2K Kenworth Pilgrimage, the SUV of the future, today: I want the Super Ultra Grand Dominator with a fringe on the top--just what I need to keep up with the Joneses.
So Dubya has now come
So Dubya has now come out for Star Wars-style missile defenses, while ducking (as usual) all of the details. Read more about it: Bush Backs Wider Missile Defenses.
I'd like to see if he has an answer for any of the issues raised in this and this articles from Slate, which debunk the whole stupid "rogue state" notion.
Microsoft Judge Sees Merit in
Microsoft Judge Sees Merit in 3-Way Split. Hey, isn't that exactly what I proposed in April?
Looking for scientific summer adventure
Looking for scientific summer adventure and romance? Check out the IQPC's 8th International Sewage Sludge Event.
In answer to Dori's rhetorical
In answer to Dori's rhetorical question about Salon, as far as I can tell, they've made it impossible to get to any but the top story with only one click, forcing you to go deeper into their site (and these pages aren't especially lightweight, bandwidth-wise) to read stuff that interests you. I predict plummeting readership.
Oh my deity, what has
Oh my deity, what has Salon done now?
The Sierra Leone disaster led
The Sierra Leone disaster led me to this piece in the UK's Daily Telegraph, a decidedly non-PC opinion article arguing that most of Africa is a nightmare that will not improve by itself, and that band-aid relief from the West has been and will be ineffective. The author argues for structural intervention from without - breaking up countries where there is civil war - or even a kind of recolonialization. It also dispatches some of the fashionable social causes of the day, such as across-the-board debt relief:
Given that much of Africa's debt derives from its leaders' widespread habit of siphoning off public funds and funnelling them into their foreign bank accounts (Nigeria's late president, Sani Abacha, had more than $1.5 billion in such accounts and Zaire's Mobutu a multiple of that) it is not obvious why the West should forgive such theft by writing off the debt.
Interesting stuff.
Apocamon: The Final Judgement. All
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When will the Linux 2.4
When will the Linux 2.4 kernel be released? The betting pool is now taking dates. Please note that all entries from transmeta.com will be discarded.
This is just ridiculous... it's
This is just ridiculous... it's The Spud Server.
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