Friday, November 15, 2002

Albuquerque Isotopes name inspired by The Simpsons. Albuquerque's minor league team is now the Isotopes, a happening first described in a March 2001 episode of The Simpsons. They're also talking to Fox about co-marketing ideas with Homer. There's a background article available as well. [Comics Worth Reading] 9:27:45 PM

Apple updates iDisk Utility [MacCentral] 4:49:37 PM

Apple releases Keychain First Aid [MacCentral] 4:49:12 PM

"Noisy light" is new key to encryption. Scientists at Northwestern University say they've harnessed the properties of light to encrypt information into a code that can only be cracked by breaking the physical laws of nature. [CNET News.com] 9:00:53 AM

A Shallow Introduction to the K Programming Language. About two years ago I was introduced to a programming language that I really didn't like: it didn't have continuations, I didn't see any objects, it had too many operators, it didn't have a large community around it, it was strange and different, and it looked like line noise, like Perl, and I don't like Perl. However, I gave it a try. I had to learn that continuations may not be there, but first-class functions are; it may not have a normal object system, but that is because the language doesn't need it and gets it power by cutting across objects; all the operators are the functions that make up its standard library; it's community may not be large, but it is incredibly intelligent; it only looks strange until you understand its concepts; and well, it will always look like line noise, but you will stop caring because this also make the concise code easier to read. K has since become my language of choice. [kuro5hin.org] 8:59:17 AM

More On Journaling X Client/Server Differences [MacSlash: A daily dose of Macintosh News and Discussion] 8:57:54 AM