I like this a lot. It's too early in the morning to think of anything else to say.

e_apraksina

Compare and contrast

Watson = highly styled
Radcliffe = naturally charming
Grint = utter dork

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-11-2010

• British anti-terror supremo tried to break rules on carrying liquids on planes, gets sarcastic with staff.
  (tags: security_theatre terrorism uk EpicFail)
• Why the (temporary) domination of "The West" is based on accidents of geography.
  (tags: history geography globalization)
• Into Eternity - a documentary about what may be the longest-lasting relic of our civilisation
  (tags: creativity nuclear movie finland civilization)
• Government research says that workfare systems don't actually work.
  (tags: welfare work government uk)

Remembrance

[Poll #1643254]
Context

Coding in web browsers

robhu has a good point over here.

At the moment we write Javascript in web pages, which is then compiled down by the various JIT methods that Firefox/IE/Webkit use to make it super fast.

Seeing as what's run clearly isn't the actual JS itself, but bytecode, why not have a standardised bytecode that all browsers would support, which would then mean you could write your code in any language you liked, providing there was a compiler to convert it to the standardised bytecode?

At the moment Google uses GWT to convert Java into Javascript that then gets converted into the running code, (And MS used to have something similar) wouldn't it be handy if the intermediate step wasn't necessary?