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Reading Robert Cialdini’s “Influence” – Plenty of social psychology observations that should be common sense if you’re paying attention to the world around you.

UPDATE (2008-01-06) : Here’s a 64-bit build for amd : firefox-3.0b2-en-US.freebsd62-x86_64-static.tar.bz2 (md5 21bfa5c75d9b3df11f939a07a9bb94bc) If anyone wants to test Firefox 3.0 BETA 2 on FreeBSD then then here’s a static build.

A movie with a cast including Ray Kurzweil(as himself), Marvin Minsky, self-help guru Anthony Robbins, Alvin Toffler, Mitch Kapor, Bill Joy, Aubrey de Gray and more.

Zyzyxx Rd., Mojave Desert, California “ … the commercial software community has developed one particular response to resource limitation: a fevered, workaholic approach to software development—error prone, hectic, family-destroying, health-degrading, nigh…

Some Haskell fans seem impressed with better performance for a fibonacci function compared with similar implementations in Ruby and Python.

According to this telegraph article : “an Ipswich-based businessman invented a £190 bottle that makes foul-smelling water drinkable in seconds.”

I’ve ranted previously about Python and made promises of future posts about why Ruby is so much cooler.

The previous post was pretty grumpy about Python/Django and I was going to write a follow-up about why Ruby is a better language (unfortunately not the platform’s performance just yet but that is soon to change with YARV).

Thanks John for bringing this one up.

‘Being John Malkovich’ is a 1999 film written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Spike Jonez.

SBCL 1.0 is out !

the.codist seems to have these down accurately so far.

…thanks to Google, Yahoo and Microsoft.

(This has been around for a while now but it still deserves more linkage.)

Artificial Intelligence An early look at artificial Intelligence.

Regarding the role of Lisp and game development (specifically on the PS2), Andy Gavin has this to say… “Lisp was just the best solution for this job,” comments Gavin.

“To me the most demoralizing aspect of the traditional office is that you’re supposed to be there at certain times.