Staples now sells Hipster PDAs?

This afternoon Omaha had to run to Staples, one of our big office supply chains here in the US, and pick up some paperwork she'd had their printing service run off for her. As I wandered through the aisles, I noticed a big table with a new set-up for a line of products called M.

M, it turns out, is Staples' own brand of Moleskine knockoffs. But what was even more baffling was that among the products on the table I saw a small stiff-backed leather holder for 3x5 cards and boxes of 500-each 3x5 cards with grids on one side and portrait-mode lining on the other.

There it was: Staples is not only selling its own Moleskine knockoffs, it's selling Hipster PDAs.

Is Literate Programming dead?

So, for the first time in about a year, I turned to writing some C this week and discovered to my annoyance than Noweb is broken in Emacs 22.0. It doesn't do code transitions or font locking anymore. This is actually very unacceptable; I must have code modes and font locking to switch between C and LaTeX as I work.

I went looking for alternatives, and there are none. Sadly, no new work in Literate Programming has been done in the psat two years. LP is being allowed to die on the vine, unused and unloved.

I really don't understand that. It's a great methodology for single programmers, and there are still a lot of us out there, doing our own little things, not bothering anyone. I'm really pissed off that noweb.el is borked, and I don't know nearly enough elisp to do anything about it.