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DateListPlot in Mathematica. Every new version since 1.0 I've looked for this, and been astonished that it didn't exist.

Any of you have a recommendation for a Mac-friendly non-iPod video capable portable media players that handle video? I'm disqualifying the iPod for now as its codec support is pretty minimal. Otherwise, it has almost everything I'm looking for.

Other than that, I'm looking at the Creative Zen Vision W, which looks great on "paper" but is ugly and doesn't love the Mac. In fact, the only way to get it to work with a Mac is to use xnjb, an open source MTP application. Suck. That's so far from iTunes integration that it makes my head spin.

Challenge by Moss on September 13, 4:25

It's interesting--I've thought for a while that it would be cool for Ruby to steal some of Lisp's more advanced features. Ruby has a way of taking esoteric computer science techniques and making them deliciously readable and easy to use, so I'd love to see a Rubyish implementation of, say, macros. But I never could have guessed that we'd come so far so quickly in implementing the most important Lisp feature of all: violently defensive community resistance to even the mildest criticism! Now that's innovation!

I went to look at the new MacBook today at the Apple store. I feel this desire to replace both my G4 PowerBooks with another Macintosh laptop.

Now that I've validated its functionality, I'm ready to migrate the Mac Mini to be a home theater pc, and I miss the dual screen functionality afforded by having a laptop with screen-spanning ability.

That said, the MacBook non-Pro will not be replacing anything at my house any time soon.

The good:

• The keyboard is much nicer than it looks. I expected a Mattel Aquarius experience, but it types almost as well as my PowerBooks. It took about three femtoseconds to adjust.