Download the Borland C++ Compiler and tools for free. What does this mean? Is this the end for Borland's C++ compiler?

Disgusting! "[T]he US makes up 5% of the total global population, it now accounts for 25% of the world's prisoners." The graph to the right (from the BBC) is simply shocking.

Charles Shulz dies at 77. Rats!

Forthcoming Science Trade Books:

Douglas Hofstadter
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Hofstadter's indefinable foray into absolutely everything is written entirely in FlooP, the computer language he introduced in 1979's landmark Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. The included CD-ROM features an uncompilable FlooP interpreter programmed in Donald Knuth's MIX pseudocode. Illustrated throughout with meaningless squiggles.

I don't know why, but my WebCam app stalls occasionally. It still takes a picture every minute. It's just the same picture every time.

My colorful screen is "Winter Breakup," by Hyacinth Manning. I got it and other fine art from www.webshots.com. It's pretty neat, but irritatingly viral. (It keeps reinstalling itself in my Startup group). I might eventually just extract the images and ditch the program. I wonder how illegal that is?

Apparently, "hotep" is an (African?) word of greeting.

Lunar New Year
Welcome to the Year of the Dragon!