Octobot

Here's an interesting building block: a task queue processor. Runs anything in Java or other JVM languages. There's definitely a system-level design language waiting to be defined that would put together this sort of component to make an overall system.

Babbage's Debugger

A universal graphical language devised by Charles Babbage to enhance understanding of complex clockwork.

OpenLogos

Over on my translation tools hat, I've been looking at OpenLogos, a very old commercial machine translation program that has recently gone open-source.

Here's the thought that struck me earlier this week: the intermediate parse structure contains something very like a semantic structure. Might it not be possible to "translate" English into a Class::Declarative nodal structure? At least in limited domains?

I'm just going to leave that thought on the table here, and back away slowly.

The mother of all pattern sites

I never really noticed c2.com - the birthplace of the freaking Wiki. Sometimes you just have to wonder if I've ever been paying attention at all.