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bandages

Slashdot | Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and . . . If you look at all the RFCs at dev.perl.org, you’ll find that most of the feature requests are bogus on some level or other because they tend to suggest bandaid solutions. … Continue reading

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remember the Beethoven beetle?

Programming tool makes bugs sing. (Link from GirlHacker.) Interesting if it works. There’s a similar idea in Bruce Sterling’s early novel Schismatrix: the control panel of the ship Red Consensus makes a sonic pattern designed to fade from conscious perception … Continue reading

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call me primitive

Teresa Nielsen Hayden greets me with: Hi there. Looks like you’re using barfy ol’ Netscape 4.x. I don’t want to seem unkind or rejecting, but it’s a real pain to design a web page that’ll work with Netscape 4. . . . … Continue reading

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next: nucleonic memory

Single-atom bits. (Link from Eric Hall.)

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a limitation

One thing I haven’t managed to find with Google is the source of a cliché.

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the eight-track web

ObsoleteHosting.com: State-of-the-art drive units insure your pages get served eventually. We have staff on hand in our NOC 8 hours a day to flip tapes. If your visitors want to see a page that’s on side 2, just give us … Continue reading

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Alan, meet John

Too cool! A Turing Machine in Conway’s Game Life, extendable to a Universal Turing Machine. Thanks to Andre Uratsuka Manoel for the link. (Link corrected 2004 Oct 6.) 2006: And the newer link is now dead. Never mind, just search … Continue reading

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