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A good post about why the fear of user-generated content (UGC) is unjustified and why user-generated content gave Wikipedia and Amazon.com an edge over their more traditional competitors - Encyclopedia Britannica and Barnes and Noble. Pretty enlightening stuff.

One of my favourite Israeli songs - Shmulik Kraus sings "איך שגלגל מסתובב לו" - "How the wheel turns". The Hebrew words are pretty funny too.

Pretty nice rebuttal of creationism.

Freecell Solver (fc-solve) is a powerful, open-source, feature-rich and fast automated solver for many types of Solitaire games, including Freecell. It runs fine on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, and most reported UNIX versions including GNU/Linux. Its web-site is comprehensive and contains many links, documents, discussions, information, a mailing list, a blog and other resources.

Freecell Solver was integrated into several open-source and commercial Solitaire implementations.

Caveat: I am the originator of this page and the Freecell Solver program in question.

Very good article about what makes programmers like their languages. Some of the points there are brevity, being a scripting language, writing throwaway programs, having libraries and APIs and stuff. Very good stuff.