links for 2006-10-23

• The Post-Modern Rhetoric of High Technology @ WEB 2.0 JOURNAL
  “The nihilism of The Bomb, the ethical bankruptcy of eugenics and similar traffics in human suffering are examples of [postmodernism's] negative effects.” Wait, we’re blaming the atomic bomb and eugenics on post-modernism now? I need to read my Curmudgeon
  (tags: ajax business culture history philosophy politics rhetoric postmodern web Web2.0)
• Design Principles Behind Smalltalk
  “If a system is to serve the creative spirit, it must be entirely comprehensible to a single individual.” Listening, Greg?
  (tags: smalltalk design language programming creativity)
• LanguageNotes
  A terse guide to Smalltalk
  (tags: smalltalk tutorial Reference)
• Terse Guide to Seaside | OnSmalltalk: A Squeak, Smalltalk, Seaside, Web Development Blog
  Ramon serves up the core of Seaside with a few notes.
  (tags: howto seaside smalltalk tutorial)
• Wallflower at the Web Party - New York Times
  “Basically, Jonathan wanted to meet girls,[...] He told me himself, he started Friendster as a way to surf through his friends’ address books for good-looking girls.” That’s so lame it’s funny.
  (tags: Friendster socialsoftware socialnetworking)

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