Apple has open-sourced their Directory Services plugins for Darwin and Mac OS X, including those for LDAP and NetInfo. These supersede the lookupd interfaces used until Mac OS X 10.1; now there's just a shim in lookupd to interface with Directory Services.
OpenMCL 0.11 (a LGPL'ed version of Digitool's Macintosh Common Lisp, minus the GUI pieces, which runs on Linux and Darwin/Mac OS X on PowerPC) was released a few weeks ago; I missed it.
Lee and I saw Belle and Sebastian last night at the Congress Theater in Chicago.
It seems the performances have improved significantly over the course of their tour, since my impression couldn't have been further from the reviews I found of their British shows last month (see this review or this one). A few years ago their live performances really were bad, so I was quite pleasantly surprised in Chicago that it all ran smoothly considering the complexity and variety of the arrangements: songs included five violins, cello, flute, recorders, acoustic, electric and bass guitars, four keyboards, organ, drums, trumpet, and miscellaneous percussion.
The sound level was quite adequate—in fact, a bit too loud for my taste at times. The band appeared far from aloof, and to be enjoying themselves immensely (as was I 
). The mid-show proposal followed by a performance of of “Judy and the Dream of Horses” for the newly engaged couple was really sweet. The funniest moment for me was in the last song when electric guitars were the instrument of choice; Mick just sat there tapping rhythm on the side of his guitar while Chris didn't have much to do. Mick whispered something to Chris, after which Chris went backstage to get a spare electric guitar, with which he began dancing on stage until the song ended. Reading over what I wrote, it doesn't sound so hilarious, so I guess you had to be there.
uiuc.test has had 640 posts in the last 24 hours. I really need to get off it, I keep telling myself. But then gems such as the following are posted (to avoid offending my younger readers, select the following paragraph :)
Your brown friends think they are white — this is a documented problem.
And frankly, they, and you also, can suck my 10-foot chocolate-colored
ECE-knowledge enhanced antenna dick of power.
Another wonderful gem from the twisted mind of Pavan.
Freefall was really great again today. I no longer answer my phone at home, FWIW.
Some decent Tradewars 2002 tips. (There, I admitted it, I'm addicted. Thanks Lee, really.)
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