Just Like 9/11, No One Saw it Coming...

Oh, maybe they did.

Say, have you seen that barrel of tar I had sitting around here?

Robert Reich

I've linked to his blog before, but Robert Reich, the Clinton Secretary of Labor, has posted some interesting thoughts about our wall street bailout on his blog.

http://robertreich.blogspot.com/

Dog Days

A fantastic video from the NYT:
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=dd8d41770945c6b1d0b7f3d7efae02b4197beecd

RNC 2008: Democracy Immobilized, Republican Inaction?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0UUsdCx3Qg

Common Lisp: Preserve Case

Sweet! I found a way to preserve the case of symbols entered into the repl!

Technology and Globalization: A Nation Security Issue?

No Child Left Behind is a joke

My town's school district, despite having the highest proficiency in both math and reading in the state of Minnesota(with scores of 84 and 90%), failed No Child Left Behind this year.

Bushies. What a joke.

Word For Word Podcast: How the rich get richer

New Paul Record Out/Old Paul Documentary

Paul Westerberg has a new record out.

A NASA photo via wikipedia.

From an email today:

I was wondering if I could pick your brain a bit regarding learning to program, in general. [Some PHD] has me teaching two people RoR and neither is terribly interested, nor does either have any experience.


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I pointed them to the "Little Schemer," but since they'll only be here for a few weeks we need to get them doing practical stuff........he decided to get them this.

The Who, as Played by The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips Rehearsing from Irreversibility on Vimeo.

Old 97's/Rhett Miller-Question

I loves this song.

Everything is a Lisp

Tonight I found a library that bundles an Actionscript 3/ECMAScript 4 compiler(that itelf is written in Actionscript 3/ECMAScript 4) into a library for Flash and Flex.

It's not done, but it sure is cool.

Here's a blog post on it.