There is also miniKanren, available as core.logic.

Seemed like abandonware the last time I tried. Has it been picked up again?

core.logic has been in continuous commercial use pretty much from its inception, and that continues presently. I'd argue that calling a continuously high rate of change a prerequisite towards usefulness is an attitude which makes more sense in communities where there's little respect for backwards compatibility and thus a high rate of bitrot, ie. Ruby.

Exactly. I'd rather use something stable that doesn't need much (if any) continuous change.

There's been maintenance commits regularly (2 days ago, 20 days ago, etc) and the project itself is stable. So while there's been no new features added, I don't see why that would be necessary if it works well as is.

    > I had to build an AJAX heavy part of the page, and got a bit lost in callbacks and DOM manipulations

Have you missed all the posts on intercooler.js - http://intercoolerjs.org/

    <!-- When this button is clicked an AJAX POST request is sent to /example and the 
         response content is swapped in to the body of the button -->
    <button ic-post-to="/example">
        Click Me!
    </button>

But what if I want the response to populate the content of another HTML element? E.g. if I wanted an accordion-style FAQ where when you click on the question (or on a plus-sign before the question), the div below the question is loaded with the answer from the server via AJAX.

William Basinski "Watermusic II" is wonderful!

I'd never heard of Roedelius. Kind of an interesting minimalist piano style. Very likeable. I'm listening to "self-portrait" (or at least that's my translation of the German).

    > The idea of savoring experiences is a good start.

Sort of. But real Buddhist mindfulness would call that 'savoring' craving. Nirvana lies in lack of attachment to the rise and fall of phenomena, not savoring the rise.

That's really just a function of how you define savoring. For me, savoring something is being fully present in the experience, and really turning the senses experiencing it up to 11.

    > I'd bet it's inversely proportional to the number of things we have available to worry about.

When I was financially free I almost went crazy from lack of stress.

This is actually one of the roots of PTSD. A switch is turned on that can't be turned off, and it puts you in the strange situation of wishing you were back in the stressful situations of combat.

    > Combine the power of Java and your existing investments with the simplicity of JavaScript.

I would much rather use Clojurescript and Clojure to cover this technical area.

Beyond even that, Google is in sore need of some creative people with business sense. They continually create and cancel products. And the products they create in general just dont fly. Besides email, search engine and ads, they just fluster about confusedly.