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Friday, 5th February 2010

A History of the Sentence “Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.”. Complete with explorations of the grammar in Lisp.

# 9:50 am / buffalo, english, grammar, lisp

What’s hot? Introducing Zeitgeist. Dan Catt’s first project at the Guardian. “When something appears on the Zeitgeist page, it’s because it performed better (got more attention) than the norm for that content type/section/day”. The application itself is written in Python and runs on Google App Engine.

# 12:17 pm / appengine, dan-catt, guardian, python, zeitgeist