Carlos Catucci wrote: > Fans of Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of the best-selling > /Discworld/ series who passed away last week, have joined together to > preserve his memory in a way appropriate to his books. In his book > "Going Postal," a character's memory is preserved by keeping his > name permanently in the traffic of the "clacks", the Disc's > proto-telegraph system. The "GNU Terry Pratchett" > <http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1ztec5ut22lulmrjh850lhrbkn6bhke40pg9n2eao> > movement encourages participants to add Sir Terry's name to their HTTP > headers, keeping his name circulating for as long as the Internet uses > HTTP.
Ecco la risposta di Eric Raymond a questa iniziativa: Remembering Terry Pratchett <http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6703> -- Nicola 'tekNico' Larosa <http://www.tekNico.net/> Look at the poor New Agers. Christianity developed defenses against criticism, arguing for the wonders of faith; New Agers culturally inherit the cached thought that faith is positive, but lack Christian- ity's exclusionary scripture to keep out competing memes. New Agers end up in happy death spirals around stars, trees, magnets, diets, spells, unicorns... - Eliezer Yudkowsky, 2007 _______________________________________________ Python mailing list Python@lists.python.it http://lists.python.it/mailman/listinfo/python