Random links of the hour
Why PHP sucks (and couple more articles on the same theme). I agree — PHP is the Visual Basic of the open source world. And yet, this blog runs on PHP… (Of course, Wordpress’s constant security issues — Gentoo had it masked as insecure for a few months this year — doesn’t help PHP’s cause any.)
A comprehensive guide to rare and esoteric microprocessors, covering the years 1970-2002. Learned some interesting things about the Hitachi SH series from it…
Finally, it appears that some Pennsylvania judges will sign just about any ridiculous search warrant. A very sad state of affairs.