The largest living thing in the world is an Aspen Tree in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah. It's an Aspen Tree, with a recorded 41,000 trees off of one root stock! Amazing! That whole forest is actually only one tree with many branches.

Nobody has ever posted a comment back to any of these posts which is fine - I could really care less. However, I've been slammed by SPAM bots lately posting all kinds of crap via the comment facilities. I've deleted these posts and hobbled the comment facilities If the crap continues to accumulate, I'll have to hack the XMLRPC interface as well. Whatever. I'm actually thinking this B2 package isn't really all that anyway.

Amazon launches new search site with all kinds of interesting features for people who do exhaustive online research.

A9 Search

These are great essays. Extremely insightful and quite funny.

Great Hackers
Hackers and Painters
Beating the Odds

... more Paul Graham wisdom is available on his website http://www.paulgraham.com/