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What I want to know about this theory is: what happens if you're someone like me, who cycles between growing a beard and going beardless? Or does it just matter whether your official picture has a beard? I've got one right now, so does that mean I'm doing better …

::: {.Section1} Tim Bray reports on a summit that Sun held to better understand the needs of the dynamic languages community. It sounds like Sun is recognizing the strength of the “multiple languages, one platform” value proposition that Microsoft has been pushing with .NET. :::

::: {.Section1} Someone blogged a prototype of a [RichTextBox]{style="font-weight:bold"}  that supported various [ApplicationGesture]{style="font-weight:bold"}s for inserting and deleting and so forth. I can’t find it on the blogs of the usual suspects, but I know I’m just not using the right keywords. Can …

My latest column for SD Times discusses “Little Languages”: a subset of domain-specific languages that can be mastered in a day and implemented in a matter of days or short weeks.

Just pathetic.

According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, sunset here in beautiful Kailua Kona (Eat your heart out: Webcam) will occur today at 5:45 pm, one minute later than yesterday. Hoorah!

But I'm trying to figure out why sunset and sunrise aren't perfectly symmetrical. I mean, I get that local …

Oh, man! I just discovered that one of my most-used public addresses (from email.com) somehow “forgot” that it's supposed to be forwarding my mail to a real account. And, of course, since it's a public address, my Inbox quickly overflowed with offers of Rolexes and ph\@rm4sootikals. So, if …

Peter sez:

Julia really likes Loren's animated demo of his Circuit App…Very few actually venture into the complex yet so exciting world of custom recognizers that work on shapes. That's why Loren's and xThink's applications look so darn impressive - they are the cream of the crop, the ultimate and …

::: {.Section1} This is funny. It’s also an example of “So silly and pointless, Flash must be worth looking to for inspiration as a programming tool”:

\< ![if !vml]>\< ![endif]>Pop your way to a state of bliss with Virtual Bubble Wrap. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Boing Boing] :::

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Andy "ZMan" Dunn who has created a website, The Z Buffer, that's completely dedicated to Managed DirectX goodness. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"}  [InkBlog: The Random Musings of David Weller] :::