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Blog spam. It is a huge quote from this: http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/03/24/international-lisp-conference-day-two http://wingolog.org/archives/2009/03/24/

• gojomo 18y ago
  Pulling a meaningful, discretely discussable quote from another place isn't necessarily 'blog spam'. Sussman's rationale for the change in 6.001's focus and language is more interesting to me than anything else in the 'international lisp conference -- day 2' post, and is hidden near the bottom of that post. So, the pull quote blog item adds finding/filtering value for me, which is the opposite of spam. Neither the blogger nor submitter deserves the implication they are a spammer.
  • scott_s 18y ago
    Thanks - I was going to point out the same thing. The linked blog has no ads, so I don't think he's going to gain much from hits.
    • alecco 18y ago
      Tomato, potato.
• eob 18y ago
  I'm a PhD student at MIT and arrived to my office on Monday to find the International Lisp Conference had set up shop downstairs. Let me just tell you.. I've never seen so many bearded people in one place!
  • grinich 18y ago
    I noticed this too. In one of the admissions tour groups passing by, I heard the guide comment that it was probably a Literature convention. So I suppose beards either mean lit gurus or lisp hackers.