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• Mammal rise 'not linked' to dinos Perhaps the best part is the beautifully rendered result of evolution for the last 166 million years. Good global warming? "However, the supertree shows that the placental mammals had already split into these sub-groups by 93 million years ago, long before the space impact and at a time when dinosaurs still ruled the planet."


• Guice Talk by Google Listing all the good ways DI makes your code better - and yes testing is the main one, more OO is another, better than service locater (J2EE) etc. Not much new here, except for no XML, for people who have been doing this for a while.


• Another Google talk by the Cyc people referenced in Priming the Pump and Threshold Conditions . With many examples that will be familiar for Semantic Web proponents.


• Closures for Java JSR Scala gets a mentions as does the BGGA proposal.


• Three reasons that REST is not RPC "Being able to do state transition processing at disparate locations is hugely powerful...A single process can span machines offering differing levels of scalability, reliability and security."


• Six of One, a Half Dozen of the Other "Closures vs. objects should really be a koan". I think this was off a reddit post at some stage. Leads to a purely functional OO system in Scheme.