Sheldon Brown, famed cyclist, died on Sunday of a heart attack. His website was invaluable when I started cycling; I hope it’s kept online in the future. May his memory be eternal.
Most folks don’t realise that Xerox passed up the chance to be the computer company. Back in 1975—almost a full decade before Apple released the Macintosh—Xerox had a dynamic programming language, a windowed GUI, a cool computer and more. Alan Kay recollects how Smalltalk 76 was born.
Stenley Kurtz offers a deeply insightful analysis of Akbar Ahmed’s books about Waziristan and their implications for our broader war against Islamist terror. If you read nothing else today, make it this.
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