BBC NEWS | Special Reports | Flatulence joke is world's oldest
Academics have compiled a list of the most ancient gags and the oldest, harking back to 1900BC, is a Sumerian proverb from what is now southern Iraq.
Microsoft's plans for post-Windows OS revealed - Software Development Times On The Web
Midori, a speculative incubated software project, tries to expand on their Singularity OS project for more network-connected and potentially commercial prospects. Asynchronous promise-based (and capability-based?) security and concurrency are alluded to.
littleb.org - home of the little b modular modeling language
The little b project is an effort to provide an open source language which allows scientists to build mathematical models of complex systems. The initial focus is systems biology. The goal is to stimulate widespread sharing and reuse of models.
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant - Robert Pike, 2000
This talk is a polemic that distills the pessimistic side of my feelings about systems research these days. I won't talk much about the optimistic side, since lots of others can do that for me; everyone's excited about the computer industry. I may therefo
Home - Pencil Project
The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.
Tor.com / Science fiction and fantasy / Stories / Down on the Farm by Charles Stross
A story from the Laundry series, posted online for free as part of Tor's online efforts.
Timeframe
Allows selecting a time range easily in AJAX/DHTML applications.
Étoilé - Pragmatic Smalltalk 0.5 announcement
A Smalltalk compiler to Objective-C which extends the runtime to support Smalltalk idioms. LLVM potential optimizations are also discussed.
LispForum • Index page
A discussion board for Lisp - seems like a throwback, but if people use it, it deserves attention.
theoghts: doctor-pusher-flyer man
Which means that basically we're turning America into one giant hospital. And the illness is life. Our cultural doctors don't really know how to make life better, so they've prescribed a heavy dose of Comcast. Think I'm exaggerating? Name the biggest
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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If you're a C programmer with some spare time, take a look at the mod_virgule project page and help us with one of the tasks on the ToDo list!
