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Google is now identifying junk mail and doing the unsubscribe request as well. It may not actually cut down on my already low spam content, and spammers. Yet, if there are good actors out there (like a lot of large retailers), then the unsubscribe could actually work. I like to see people trying to push things forward.

Computer Chronicles > Artificial Intelligence

How far we have come. This video has some shots of old symbolics machines and Dr. McCarthy answering really bad questions on Lisp and AI.

A 2002 essay by Guy Steele, one of the inventors of Scheme, admitting that objects are not a bad concept. It is always good to keep this in mind to contrast with Paul Graham and (many other Lispers) position on this topic.

Paul Graham did one of his essays on how Yahoo lost it.

From my perspective, it is purely about success. Too much of it will kill a company. At that point in time (mid to late 90′s), Yahoo had some really, really smart people. Once a company becomes enormously successful, it is really hard to keep those people. Once you lose the good people, you better have something in place to attract other good or great people. Yahoo did not do that, so here they are. It is amazing how these companies like Yahoo and AOL can continue to have valid businesses for quite some time.

All of this is not a bad thing, however. This is a form of corporate evolution. Those who were successful will go off and start or invest in other new and innovative companies.

This one feature will probably enable google to become significantly more relevant in the social networking space. Address book or contact management innovation here is long overdue.

a little late on this, but good geek entertainment holds up for months

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