Monday Quickies
Michael Crichton on patent reform.
Something sports-related happened in my home town.
The next version of Scheme is targeting non-hygenic macros as a feature.
Yeah, o.k. I'll give 'ya that the last one is just a wee bit more obscure than the others, but this is quite a role-reversal from the previous dictums of the language. Imagine when C++ started supporting the dynamic_cast operator or, god forbid, Python allowed some special set of tokens, other than whitespace, for lexical scoping of code blocks.