A must-listen from the Ruby-on-Rails podcast (has very little to do with Ruby on Rails): an interview with Avi Bryant on a new Smalltalk-based web framework that breaks the straw-thin mode of thinking about programming for the web (session-less back-and-forth of key-value pairs does not have to be the state of the art).

This is one of those interviews that makes you wish podcasts had a way to "call in." There were just so many more questions that the interviewer should have asked but didn't like: how you deploy faceless Squeak-based applications? How you distribute them? And why is Smalltalk really is so much more efficient than Ruby/Python/Perl?

For everyone with some downtime over the next few days, spend some time down by the Seaside and think about a better world.