Gas Prices

Last summer, I had the idea to create a website that tracked gas prices, relying on volunteers to report prices. It looks like I wasn't the only one.

The Progammers' Stone

The Programmers' Stone has been around since 1997, but I only heard about it today. I can't decide if I love it or hate it, but I spent the afternoon mesmorized by it.

Lessons in what not to do

Roedy Green has written a humourous guide on how to write unmaintainable code.

FFIs for Lisp

I already knew about ECL, but I only discovered chicken today, when I started investigating SWIG as a way to generate interfaces to C code from a Common Lisp. Neat stuff.

Classical Computer Science Texts

An excellent collection of online computer science articles and texts.

Preferred Treatment for the Obnoxious

University of Southern California researchers are working on a system that will switch a customer from the automated telephone system to a human operator if he seems angry. Why would anybody think this a good idea? Who wants to live in a world where irrate obnoxious jerks get preferred treatment at the expense of those with enough self-control and civility to wait their turn without complaining?