July 2011 Archives
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Kieran Healy's Weblog – Text Editors in The Lord of the Rings
Emacs: Fangorn Vast, ancient, gnarled and mostly impenetrable, tended by a small band of ancient shepherds old as the world itself, under the command of their leader, Neckbeard. They possess unbelievable strength, are infuriatingly slow, and their land is entirely devoid of women. It takes forever to say anything in their strange, rumbling language.
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