There is a discussion going on in php land about introducing closures and lambda functions, there was even a discussion on haskell-cafe about it (chx strikes again ;). About time, I would say. Having this functionality is a bonus. Having it implemented badly or half-arsed is going to do more damage than help. This is a short summary of what do I understand from the rfc and what do I think about it.

thanks slashdot, reddit, youtube for starting me this morning

from TedTalks

Law professor Yochai Benkler explains how collaborative projects like Wikipedia and Linux represent the next stage of human organization. By disrupting traditional economic production, copyright law and established competition, they're paving the way for a new set of economic laws, where empowered individuals are put on a level playing field with industry giants.

#! /bin/bash
#member_match
LISTS=`list_lists | cut -f1 -d- | xargs echo`
for list in $LISTS ; do
  echo $list
  list_members $list | grep $1
done

cow:~# ./member_match "at$"

He Sells Shell Scripts to Intersect Sets is a good read. Set and multiset operations from the command line or in .sh. Rather clean, straightforward shell magic.

On The Constitutional Reasons Behind Copyright And Patents
Patents, Copyrights And Trademarks, Oh My!
If Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property, What Is It?

Against Intellectual Monopoly

I liked Levine and Bolrin's Intellectual Monopoly substitute term for IP. It better reflect what "intellectual property" is about - a monopoly to exploit a "product" of someone's intellect, granted by a government explicitly , for example patents, or implicitly (copyright).

from qdb

<piercings> A programmer started to cuss
<piercings> Because getting to sleep was a fuss
<piercings> As he lay there in bed
<piercings> Looping 'round in his head
<piercings> was: while(!asleep()) sheep++;

So who is failure?
Ask google to find out

Wikileaks