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Sunday, September 23, 2001 

Deep Space 1 made it past the comet and is sending back 32 pictures of the nucleus. Space.com's story is here.

A French scientists thinks he's pinpointed Atlantis to being close to the Straits of Gibraltar.

Why geeks don't get dates, part one and two.

What's the first thing implemented on a new computer? Games, of course. Physics News Update has a summary of the implementation of Prisoners' Dilemma on a quantum computer.

Clockless processors: We don't need no stinkin' gigahertz.

Disruptive technologies from DARPA.

Some Pakistani couples are starting to name their kids Osama.

A background reading list on terrorism and the Taliban from The Economist.

Polymorphic type inference for the relational algebra

Implementing arithmetic with type systems - division by zero becomes a type error.

Via CamWorld: rm -rf /bin/laden

Via Memepool: EFF has the draft of the Ashcrofts' Anti-Terrorism Act of 2001.

Via Memepool: An English translation of the Koran.

Via Bifurcated Rivets: A photo gallery of abandoned places.

Makefile achieves self-awareness

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