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13feb2008

Hello Kitty MMORPG goes beta, “Sanrio Digital’s “Hello Kitty Online” accepting players for closed beta”. WJW.

Chaosradio: Moderne Webentwicklung, “Welche Standards und Methoden das Programmieren neuartiger Anwendungen im Web erlauben.” Tim Pritlove war im Metalab und hat die soup.io-Leute interviewt. Ich werde namentlich erwähnt ab Sekunde 300. Guter Podcast. ;-)

Tag on Tim Berners-Lee's original NeXT machine – first Web server by Robert Scoble

MACLISP manual comes to the web, by Kent M. Pitman. Awesome!

Such is the passage of time
Too fast to fold
Suddenly swallowed by signs
Low and behold
— Eddie Vedder, Rise

What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory , by Ulrich Drepper. “As CPU cores become both faster and more numerous, the limiting factor for most programs is now, and will be for some time, memory access.”

Torture And The Law, Mark Bernstein provides the clearest statement on breaking the law when it’s necessary.

The least interesting number, displayed by Mark Dominus.

Ray Kurzweil turned 60 yesterday. Happy birthday and may you be able to live as long as you want to.

Das Ende des Brockhaus naht, “Die 21. Auflage der Brockhaus Enzyklopädie war voraussichtlich die letzte.”

XML Stream Processing Using a Lazy Concurrent Language (PDF), by Shin-Cheng Mu, Ta-Chung Tsai, and Keisuke Nakano. “The challenge is how to encapsulate concurrency without compromising expressiveness and flexibility of languages. We propose the idea of pushing datatypes – when a pushing closure is demanded, all expressions referring to it are evaluated concurrently to weak head normal forms.”

Valores… by La Flo…

I’ve got this light
I’ll be around to grow
Who I was before
I cannot recall
— Eddie Vedder, Long Nights

The Lipson-Shiu Corporate Type Test classifies along four alternative axes: Intelligent-Stupid, Lawful-Chaotic, Important-Unimportant, and Good-Evil. I’m ICUG (Inventor).

connotype.com, “a compendium of things heard and seen” by Rumsey Taylor. Makes a wonderful homepage.

Conal Elliott blogs a lot of good stuff about functional reactive programming lately.

468B Thy Future, “Porter turned his attention to poetry as unintentionally written by machines, in machine meter. This, Porter told us, is the poetry of the future: a poetry of numbers, repetition, function, gravity, and trajectory, redefining the standards of human emotion and tone.” Magnificient.