[via Doc] This is the reason we write weblogs - but I know more than 15 people read Doc's...

In his NPR commentary the other day, David Weinberger said something like, "Instead of everybody being famous for fifteen minutes, everybody gets to be famous for fifteen people." It was kind of a joke, but it brought up for me something of a corollary to a corollary (mine to David's to Andy's): In the future everybody gets to be Herb Cain for at least fifteen seconds.

Herb Cain was the tireless chronicler of San Francisco life for something like 60 years. His column, always chock full of dropped names (akin to links in this medium), was a must-read every morning in the San Francisco Chronicle. 5:08:59 PM

[via John Udell] Paul Graham has a very interesting article called Beating the Averages - it describes how he and his partner used Lisp to beat competitors to the on-line store building software market.

Buried in the text is a quote from Eric S Raymond's How to Become a Hacker:

Lisp is worth learning for the profound enlightenment experience you will have when you finally get it; that experience will make you a better programmer for the rest of your days, even if you never actually use Lisp itself a lot.

Graham extends the argument and makes the point that if Lisp is so great, why would you not want to use it? 5:01:41 PM