An impressive web site for William Holman Hunt, the preeminent pre-raphaelite artist.
Author: Dotan Dimet
Categories
Howard Hawkes LOTR
It’s the cinematic version of JRR Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, as directed by Howard Hawkes, from a screenplay by Raymond Chandler, starring Humphrey Bogart, with Marlene Deitreich, Orson Welles, Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre as (obviously) Smeagol…
Categories
Doctor Who
Andrew Rilstone: Will there ever be another series of “Doctor Who”?. Andrew is insightful as ever, for example explaining why Doctor Who and Star Trek were successful despite of the cheap special effects (because they’re not about special effects), or how Doctor Who is experienced more as a cultural phenomena then as a TV show (which relates to my own experience: I was fascinated by the character and the series, but saw very few of the episodes).
Yes, I’m loitering around his site waiting for him to write about the Two Towers…
Categories
Pause / Resume
My new C.V. is now up. I’ll probably fiddle with it some more before sending it out, so I’d appreciate comments.
Categories
LISP is 133T
The Contempt Page is a collection of snide and witty quotes and aphorisms about programming languages. It ranges from Zen-like koans to juvenile humor attributed to a toilet graffito at the Technion (!)
A lot of the material comes from Lispers, who apparently have long cultivated an attitude of true eliteness. One of the more interesting of these is Paul Graham, who has an interesting article that explains the history of Lisp, it’s uniqueness and it’s relationship to other languages.
Anyone interested in learning more about Lisp 133tness would probably want to check out the site for the classic/infamous Lisp book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which includes the full text of the book online.
You’d think K&R should also be online.