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From Chris Pirillo’s Lockergnome games discussion board comes a free game, called Crash!, that is surprisingly hypnotic in a Bejeweled sort of way. Thanks, Ernest! (The help files for this beta version aren’t very helpful. The object is to clear the board. Clicking on a square will clear it if it shares a border with two others of the same color; its border mates are also cleared. The bottom line of the screen shows you the next line of squares that will be added.)

Paul Graham, who is an acquaintance from a previous life at a software company, has written a really interesting explanation of why his start-up used Lisp to write their application, including an argument about what constitutes a higher level language. (Thanks to Bret Pettichord for pointing this out.)

Of course, this recalls the old joke that circulated via email about ten years ago. “I’ve managed to hack into the Defense Department’s Star Wars code,” it explained breathlessly. “Unfortunately, I was only able to get the last page.” What followed were 2,000 close-parentheses. Oh, the tears of laughter were like CDRs to the Lisp geeks’ eyes over that one!

My own book, The Adventurer’s Guide to Interleaf Lisp, continues to sell high into the single digits every year. I only wish I were kidding.

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