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<h3>[OT] One for Ben: pTerry made his own sword</h3>
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Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
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<b>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 16:25:12 +0100</b>
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<a href='http://www.news.com.au/technology/terry-pratchett-creates-a-sword-with-meteorites/story-e6frfro0-1225926584339'>http://www.news.com.au/technology/terry-[...]-meteorites/story-e6frfro0-1225926584339</a>
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'Pratchett, who has Alzheimer's disease, also said he had thrown in
"several pieces of meteorites - thunderbolt iron, you see - highly
magical, you've got to chuck that stuff in whether you believe in it
or not".'
...
'He said: "It annoys me that knights aren't allowed to carry their
swords. That would be knife crime."'
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&lt;Leftmost&gt; jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
&lt;Leftmost&gt; Also not-so-deep inside you.
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<h3>The programmer hierarchy...</h3>
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Jim Jackson [jj at franjam.org.uk]
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<b>Mon, 6 Sep 2010 21:36:51 +0100 (BST)</b>
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Dunno if people have seen this...
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  <a href='http://blog.linux-lancers.com/images/articles/2008/10/28/programmerhierarchy.jpg'>http://blog.linux-lancers.com/images/articles/2008/10/28/programmerhierarchy.jpg</a>
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I have no wish to start a programming langauages war[1], and only offer it 
up as amusement <img src="../gx/smile.png" alt=":-)">
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Jim
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[1] but it really is remarkably accurate in all sorts of ways :-P
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<h3>The Web is dead, apparently.</h3>
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Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
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<b>Tue, 7 Sep 2010 15:46:14 +0100</b>
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On 18 August 2010 20:42, Ben Okopnik &lt;ben at linuxgazette.net&gt; wrote:
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&gt; JS without Ajax? Awesome. Next up: Assembler to DOS Batch File Language
&gt; converter. The conversion is 100% accurate, but the output feature is
&gt; still in development...
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Not quite what you mentioned, but not a million miles away:
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<a href='http://www.secretgeek.net/dod_intro.asp'>http://www.secretgeek.net/dod_intro.asp</a>
"DOS on DOPE is the modern MVC framework built on the awesome power of
Batch scripts."
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<pre>-- 
&lt;Leftmost&gt; jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
&lt;Leftmost&gt; Also not-so-deep inside you.
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<h3>Statistical Machine Translation, with rhyme</h3>
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Jimmy O'Regan [joregan at gmail.com]
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<b>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 23:06:45 +0100</b>
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Discussed here:
<a href='http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2673'>http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2673</a>
("it's too bad that they didn't set the system up to match the actual
norms of English metered verse")
they mention this:
<a href='http://research.google.com/archive/papers/review_in_verse.html'>http://research.google.com/archive/papers/review_in_verse.html</a>
a review in verse <img src="../gx/smile.png" alt=":)">
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<pre>-- 
&lt;Leftmost&gt; jimregan, that's because deep inside you, you are evil.
&lt;Leftmost&gt; Also not-so-deep inside you.
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