Anyone that likes Lisp should take a look at Factor. Even simpler syntax (RPN instead of prefix, less parenthesis), Lispy generics, functional, procedural, scripting, arbitrary data literals, full of meta goodness, clean good small understandable library, batteries included, sub-languages, REPL + image + source files, low and high level. Inspired in Lisp, Joy, Smalltalk and Forth (and with some things in common with Rebol).
In China, there appears to be a public understanding that personal privacy is not protected while in the U.S. most citizens are not concerned about their own protections. How else could Facebook exist and prosper so mightily? As for me, I don't book Face and neither should anyone else.
Yay! So many beautiful and fragile places will be saved now! People don't realize that our local deserts are "biodiversity hotspots" and there are thousands of species plants and animals relying on that desert to remain intact and in balance. Exactly like Amazon rain forests and our oceans, you can't just clearcut or poison them and expect everything to go along just fine. People may look at a dry lake and think "dead wasteland" because they don't understand that fairy shrimp and different plant seeds lie dormant in that soil for years until there is water, then they all explode into life, providing food and water for local critters as well as migrating birds, etc. Mother Nature did not make a single square foot of wasteland.
Just look at the barn. Pigs are smart creatures. How can a creature be happy in that barn? I had some of the best pork ever in Kauai where pigs roam pastures. Isn’t that a better solution?
