Homework, the tip of the iceberg
Witnessing the effects of six hours of homework after a six hour school day has had my mind churning so much that I cannot sleep.
Harold Jarche — More on the eliminate homework idea, touching on the elimination of the public school system (I don’t know about that)
Bugatti Veyron at top speed of 407 km/hTop Gear on Dailymotion — Video of the Veyron hitting 407 km/h on a closed track with a 5 mile strait. The Veyron can keep this up for 12 minutes before running out of gas, and it requires a second key to enable it.
Patty is a small library that facilitates working with functional data structures. It consists of a few macros and metaclasses that integrate nicely with CLOS. Code using patty is similar in style to Haskell code using algebraic data types, primitive pattern matching and type classes.
I’ll have to play with this a bit.
How many times have you seen a website with brilliant graphics that let themselves down with the display of the content? How many times have you seen design mockups in forums and thought “lovely design - shame about the unstyled lorem ipsum”?
fadtastic — I agree.
