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03oct2005

ThoughtWorks Commits to Ruby, RedHanded reports. Good news.

Scoble Wants The Robot Co-op, John Wulff thinks. Say that isn’t true!

by goodgrief
#lisp
19:39 <rtoy_> How you have "none-too-bad" injuries and still spend 3 days in intensive care?
19:40 <Thas> "3 days in intensive care" being none-too-bad compared to the usual result of hitting a bus head on?
19:40 <IPmonger> death would have been a "too bad" injury
19:40 <IPmonger> with, ironically, no intensive care stay required

Irreducible Complexity—Mathematical Definition and Refutation by mberteig. “What follows is an amateur’s attempt at a formal mathematical definition of irreducible complexity and then a brief analysis of a possible refutation of it based on the proposed definition.”

Linus On Specifications at KernelTrap: “a ‘spec’ is close to useless.” What a winerism ;-)

Writeboard is 37signal’s new web app. So far, I’m not really impressed. It’s “just” a single-page wiki with password protection, while I was more thinking along the lines of an AJAXy SubEthaEdit.

#ruby-lang
18:08 <slyphon> chris2: did you know kafka wrote "Metamorphosis" as a gift for his fiance`?
18:08 <chris2> didnt he write it in one night?
18:08 <slyphon> underwater, i hear
18:09 <slyphon> blindfolded
18:09 <slyphon> in blood
18:09 <chris2> :P

The Anatomy of a Loop, a story of scope and control by Olin Shivers.

The Mind of an Inventor by Steven Levy. He built his first computer as a child. In his 20s, he had moved on to supercomputers. Now Danny Hillis is thinking of bigger things.

So tell me that you love me again
Tell me that you care
I’m sorry that you love me again
— The Cure, Going Nowhere

mlmmj is an attempt at implementing a mailing list manager with the same functionality as the brilliant ezmlm, but with a decent license and mail server independency.

Gale is instant messaging software distributed under the GPL. Gale isn’t just about poking “private” messages to someone sitting at another computer. Gale does support secure private messaging, but Gale also has a well-developed infrastructure for public (and semi-public) chat.

While ITS has many good points, its user-interface is a lot like using adb as your login shell. — Paul Fuqua

Will Google offer website creation tools?, Dan Zambonini speculates.

Partial Eclipse, Paul Battley photographed it.

Reading Old Code, Ben Hyde on the CADR source release.

Andes Mountains
Andes Mountains by JohnnyBGood

MIT Open Sources the LispM Code, Bill Clementson says. w00t!. I feel the nostalgy.

And you want to travel with her
And you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you’ve touched her perfect body with your mind.
— Leonard Cohen, Suzanne

Stimmt’s? Seit Mitte 1997 beantwortet Christoph Drösser Woche für Woche eine “Stimmt’s?”-Frage in der Druckausgabe der ZEIT. Hier sind nun sämtliche seitdem erschienenen Kolumnen dokumentiert—über 400 Folgen.

Mr. Gorbachev, Rebuild This Wall, at In Actual Fact. “You’ll wrack your brain, what kind of Saint’s day or weird religious holiday is October the 3rd?”