You write a prompt, hit enter, and watch the console light up green. Code pours out. It feels like magic. Then you try to maintain the thing a week later, and you realize your shiny new AI agent just built a leaking bucket.
Not long after Scream and the Madonna were stolen from the Munch museum, the Monolith by Vigeland is painted black and probably damaged beyond repair by vandals.
Do try out the Coral mirror of my blog and tell me how responsive it is in comparison with the source blog.
My head hurts posts a picture of what scientists believe will be a home computer in the year 2004. Look at the monster!
Python Is Not Java by Phillip J. Eby will save you lots of time
With December 1st coming up tomorrow, here is Praetorius' Puer natus in Bethlehem in Christian Mondrup's transcriptions for the recorder. He's used ABC Plus for the typesetting for those who are interested.
Plonsky writes on reverse lens combinations do go great macro-shots of bugs.
A Quicktime video with a 6 minute preview of Lord of the Rings - Return of the King, the extended version, has been released. I ordered my copy from Amazon about a month ago, nice to see what I have waiting for me. 
(via Binary Bonsai)
With Illiad's Userfriendly cartoon going on about treating coffee addiction (see first strip here), my cravings for coffee skyrocket
I finished my first external Pure Data object, a note determining object. This object takes in the number of Hz a note is measured to be and outputs what note it is (the low A on a piano being 1, going up to 88), determining how many cent off it is and how many Hz extra there is (i.e, 415Hz = A flat (tone 47), one cent (minus 0.174Hz) low. Fourth output is a text with the note name, in this case Ab. This object uses equal temperament and was just an excercise for me to see if it can be done.