Kraftwerk have revealed they are releasing a new album “soon”. As the German band finish their eight-night residency at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, frontman Ralf Hütter revealed they have almost finished their first LP since 2003′s Tour de France.

Hütter’s comment was almost an afterthought, slipped in at the end of an interview with the New York Times. “We didn’t fall asleep,” he said, referring to the group’s recording ventures. “The 168-hour week is still going on since the beginning, since 1970.”

(Thanks to Alex for photo duties.)

Congratulations to Landon Donovan, David Beckham, Robbie Keane, and the rest of the LA Galaxy, the 2011 champions of Major League Soccer!

Today marks the 20th anniversary of my personal favorite text editor, Vim. Ars Technica has a great article marking the occasion and talking about some Vim history in “Two decades of productivity: Vim’s 20th anniversary”

The Vim text editor was first released to the public on November 2, 1991—exactly 20 years ago today. Although it was originally designed as a vi clone for the Amiga, it was soon ported to other platforms and eventually grew to become the most popular vi-compatible text editor. It is still actively developed and widely used across several operating systems.

In this article, we will take a brief look back at the history of vi and its descendants, leading up to the creation of Vim. We will also explore some of the compelling technical features that continue to make Vim relevant today.

See also vim.org and Vim at Wikipedia.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

Thorin Oakenshield, from The Hobbit

Yet to Conway it did not appear that the Eastern races were abnormally dilatory, but rather that Englishmen and Americans charged about the world in a state of continual and rather preposterous fever-heat. It was a point of view that he hardly expected any fellow Westerner to share, but he was more faithful to it as he grew older in years and experience.

from Lost Horizon (1933), by James Hilton