I was recently sent a reference to an essay, written in 1991 by Richard P. Gabriel about the development of the Common Lisp standard. The article is called Lisp: Good News, Bad News, and How to Win Big, and while it is interesting in its own right (to those of us interested in the Lisp [...]
Entries from June 2007
Worse is better
June 29th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Computer-schmuter, The Way The World Works
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The latest French pop sensation!
June 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Musicalifragilisitc
For those of you that were just so on beyond excited about the last musical genius from France that I posted about, I have a new sensation for our adoration. Again, this comes from my wonderful French class (yes, this is what I do for 1/2 my day every day). This song in [...]
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Explain to me why the world isn’t crazy. Please?
June 22nd, 2007 · 1 Comment · Politco Schmolitico, The Way The World Works
From Slate, an article about a sexual assault case where the words rape, assault, victim, and even “sexual assault kit” have been banned from being used in front of the jury.
Also, Darth Cheney asserts that he isn’t part of the executive branch in order to exempt himself from having to provide records. His [...]
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We can all rest a little easier today
June 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment · Science/Nature
Breathe a sigh of relief, my dear lackheaders, as I have a bit of information that should come as good news to us all. And in these dark times, anything that shows to me that the world is safer than I thought it was yesterday is good and welcome tidings indeed. So, after extensive [...]
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Sound bite-me.
June 18th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Politco Schmolitico
Recently, a friend of mine who is, well, no big fan of Al Gore, sent me a link to a YouTube video of him talking about Saddam Hussein, terrorism, chemical weapons, etc. The title of the video is “Gore criticizes Bush for ignoring Iraq’s ties to terrorism”, and it has apparently made the rounds [...]
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