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Greg Costikyan lists some examples of completely impractical programming languages, like Intercal, brainfuck, Unlambda, Funge-98, Haskell and Malbolge.

Blink. Haskell?

Bruce Sterling found this timeline to the Singularity writen by open source AI hackers. Sterling: The awesomest part of this cosmic prediction is the notion that open-source guys can deliver on time.. That timeline page has the line Contra-Singularity aspects : Hard for people to accept AI coded in JavaScript, which I found funny. They [...]

Dave Winer said something about the web being indistinguishable from Journalism. Certainly it’s been looking to me for the longest time as a sort of infinite magazine rack, and I see that just like those endless inner pages of the lifestyle section of the daily papers, the Internet - and the blogging bit in particular [...]

Yesterday we arrived at Bo for game, only to find that his entire family had descended upon his aerie, and his mother and sister had taken over his computer to produce some intricate catalog for a collection of exotic antiques collected painstakingly from the darkest corners of war-torn Africa, in that desktop publishing solution of [...]

Userscripts.org: IntelliTxt Disabler is a Greasemonkey script that gets rid of those insanely annoying advertising links that have polluted sites like rpg.net and devcenter (to mention just two of the less evil ones).

I don’t have to mention that it’s for Firefox, do I? If you’re not using Firefox, why, the terrorists have already won.

Grazr is a cute javascript widget that can view OPML files; OPML are these outline files used for storing blogrolls, or RSS reading lists in general. And I see there’s a list of Israel blogs posted byxslf, who also links to some others. I’ll mention David Abutbul’s, because he commented here.
Anyway, behind the cut is [...]

Ran and Greif already linked to this, but I have to add my own recomendation: if you think computer games are cool (which I do, in the abstract, I don’t actually play them myself sort of way), you should watch Will Wright’s demo of Spore, a game in development that has been described as from [...]

Programming languages and their relationship styles:Smalltalk won’t meet you outside Smalltalk’s apartment…. assembler just lies there… Telling people you’re happy with FORTRAN is like telling people you’ll be happy taking care of your cats for the rest of your life and don’t really need another person.
The comments have some more good ones, mostly by : [...]

I spent some time last week making a “tabs” UI with javascript/CSS, what Yahoo’s developer site calls “Module Tabs”, because they don’t navigate to other pages but rather show/hide parts of the existing page. What I came up with is this (here’s the javascript file and here’s the CSS). Of course, I only did it [...]

Bits from the OSDC:
Didn’t get to see much of day one - Larry Wall’s first talk (familar to what you find online, except here you can hear the intonation when he snarks about other languages), a laboured (but educational) talk about GNU Arch (supposedly about version control systems in general, but not really), and the [...]

Brendan Eich talks about borrowing features from Python and adding them to future versions of Javascript.

Jemplate, a port of Perl’s popular Template-Toolkit to Javascript. TT uses a very language-agnostic syntax for its templates, and I was wondering if anyone had bothered to adapt it to another language (although I’m not sure what the benefit would [...]

Programming language syntax humor! Fun at the expense of Europeans with silly names! Boobies and Man-tits! All in this short and cute movie made in a Perl conference back in 2002. It’s basically a series of in-jokes featuring people you’ve probably only read of in CPAN. I stumbled across this by asking google why someone [...]

Looking at my “friends list”, I ran across three “grr, how I hate New Year! It sucks!”-type posts. The mandated new year’s cheer appears to provoke some people’s inner misanthrope. Of course, these aren’t really true misanthrophic specimen: they are cloudy weather curmudgeons (the complement to “fair weather friends”), cuddly grumps that surround themselves with [...]