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The great inventor John McCarthy (1927 - 2011) now has an official posthumous website: Project JMC.
Don't miss his fascinating (though little-known) political essays!
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Kinda off topic:
This test of the speed required to do various things on a 26 year old computer vs a modern one (the old one won) made me think about this blog.
http://hallicino.hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus_Vs_07_AMD_DualCore_You_Wont_Believe_Who_Wins
The essays on marxism/socialism are really good.
http://innovation.it.uts.edu.au/projectjmc/commentary/progress/marxism.html
"This is just a sample of aspects of Marxism that have had intellectual appeal. Marxism has been nicely mixed with Freudianism in some intellectual circles, but I haven't paid enough attention to say anything about that."
That last admission could have improved a lot social science papers.
I get a "403 Forbidden" on the innovation.it.uts.edu.au link and a "404 File Not Found" on the themagiclab.org link.