links for 2006-06-20
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Michi Henning (!) slates the history of CORBA extensively, blaming the OMG’s process and praising the open source community. wow (via slashdot)
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for sale: one partially plutonium–contaminated Pacific atoll, 718 miles from its nearest neighbour; unfortunately the golf course is closed. see also Ballard’s ‘Terminal Beach’
Toby said,
June 21, 2006 @ 1:56 am
I haven’t read “Terminal Beach”, but Ballard wrote another island-dystopia book called “Rushing to Paradise”. I had uncanny flashbacks to that book reading about this poor benighted atoll…