"my oldest daughter (17) really likes it too!"

the seattle weekly: "[...] several christians have alerted me that [harry] potter was practicing witchcraft, but i had no idea just how dangerous and sinful he was".

yes, the "harry potter nimbus 2000 broom", which "vibrates when you squeeze it between your legs", has its vicious side-effects... (found via shithappens).

the great computer languages shoot-out.

computer languages history (uh, they got that and even more at lambda, too).

google web directory of programming languages.

the tunes project for a reflective computing system: review of existing languages.

benedict dugan: "simula and smalltalk – a social and political history".

chris has found a new programming language: io.

the developer also is the author of webgrazer, an "application for finding and browsing adult content"...

geee, smut!

very nice: ghostbloggers (via sofablogger).

note to self: i assume three people won't be enough any longer to cope with antville (the community, not the software).

the onion (in 1997): "in a move designed to make the united states seem more 'bad-assed and scary in a quasi-heavy-metal manner,' congress passed a bill monday changing the nation's name to the ünited stätes of ämerica. 'much like mötley crüe and motörhead, the ünited stätes is not to be messed with [...]" (via typographica).

yesterday on orf 2: treffpunkt kultur with a feature about the world's most famous architects pool.

monochrom (or karl marx, resp.): "nun haben wir aber gesehn, dass der aus arbeitsmitteln bestehende teil des angewandten konstanten kapitals nur ein stück seines werts an das produkt abgibt, während ein andres stück in seiner alten existenzform fortdauert".

hammerschmitt hat gewerken wintferse und dumpkopfen watchen das blinkenlichten.

nice surprise at langreiter.com: bet bias. a quickie in to have or to have not.