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the septic's companion (a guide to british words, for americans) has a book out. it's pretty good. buy it for your seppo friends »
ok, i'm totally in love with erin mckean. a great presenter on an interesting topic »
a useful reference as i forget how to spell completely »
from a php disucssion at work: "If you're willing to continually do the heavy lifting of ensuring that your version of Smalltalk96 on Rails stays concurrent with the latest patches". omg, how awesome would that be? »
a paper about intercal. very nice »
this might be the best page on wikipedia - a List of British English words not used in American English »
the ICFP programming contest seems fun - i wonder if anyone's planning on implementing in brainfuck. or smith. or maybe homespring :) »
phil doesn't believe ruby on rails exists: "Personally I prefer Cobra with the Spoke and Hairnet modules compiled in. But I've heard Gerbera on Souflé is even more powerful, particularly if you already have a load of Buckingham code"lying around. »
london.pm has been going off topic alot lately (no suprise there), and has been talking about evolution of (non-computer) languages. "The biggest change in French spelling since the XVIth century occured during the Revolution -- the endings of the imperfect tense ("j'aimois" became "j'aimais") -- and it didn't come from the Académie.", states rafael garcia-suarez. »
pointed out on p6l - xquery uses smilie faces for it's comment delimiters. the current suggestion is that p6 should do the same. even if it doesn't, one could write the grammar for it easily. »