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A study claims marriage stalls men’s creativity. Could it be because women talk three times as much as men?

H/T: The Corner and Drudge Report

This article does a fantastic job of explaining a side of computer work that surprises most laymen and formally trained professionals alike, its intersection with the liberal arts. Explaining this to a friend and colleague over dinner tonight, I remembered reading it for the first time back in the late 1990’s, when I had just become a UNIX-phile, and the joy I felt to discover a kindred spirit and realize that I was not alone, a former liberal-arts major (Philosophy) turned computer geek.

It’s 1990’s deja vu all over again.

The stock market is back.
The Web’s coming back.
In Congress, sadly, the donkeys are back.
Let’s just hope to the White House the Clintons don’t also come back.

Wanting free faster shipping from Amazon.com, I searched the site for “Amazon Prime” to join the trial program, and got some very unexpected results. Not that I’m complaining, but can someone explain how “Sexy Black Honeycomb Mini Halter Dress!” and the rest of the results relate to “Amazon Prime”? Is this an easter egg?

UPDATE: Amazon.com has removed the eye candy. It would seem then the original results were not legitimate, making it more likely to have been the work of a mischievous techie. Could this humble blog entry have tipped Amazon.com to the existence of this easter egg? Who knows?

There’s more whence this came.

Finally, a precise (and hilarious) definition of “Web 2.0.”

Pop Quiz: Are beans wired with Spring’s default wiring thread safe?

Answer: No. By default, all Spring beans are singletons; the container provides the same instance of a requested bean. If your thread safety depends on obtaining a new instance of a bean each time, a usual assumption in domain-layer code, you must define your bean as a prototype, i.e., specify singleton=”false”.

What’s a medium that’s rare when done well?

Great software!