ZhurnalyWiki: ThingsToWriteAboutSomeDay0702

Some more things to discuss eventually, taken from my offline list of random notions:

the "Scheme Underground", a semi-disorganized effort to recruit young programmers to the Scheme dialect of LISP
what's the proper amount of societal investment in science, engineering, art, etc.?
Walter Van Tilburg Clark's book The Ox-Bow Incident — both excellent and depressing, a mix of pictures and lectures
some of my old Hypercard stack projects: works of Shakespeare, Roget's Thesaurus, the World Factbook, ...
the Optical Theorem, relating the imaginary part of the forward scattering amplitude to the total cross section of the scatterer
the Mormon Temple near where I live, lit up at night: a public statement of belief and beauty — like some web pages?
Instants and Interrupts: "Rule Cancer" in the fantasy-card game Magic: The Gathering — excessive growth in complexity and resultant fading of fun and playability
how nice sometimes not to have a car radio (or other distraction), and thus get a chance to actually think once in a while

TopicJournalizing - Datetag20070227