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fogus
Foiled again! I was working on the exact same type of website (clojurespells.com), but was way too slow. Oh well, maybe David would be interested in a bunch of spells ... errrr... recipes. :-)
sigzero
Why not do a Clojure section here then?:

http://pleac.sourceforge.net/

fogus
One of the problems (as I see it) is that this "cookbook/spells" type information is spread all over the Internet. It would be more useful to users if it was located in one location and maintained on a regular basis. That was the role that I was willing to fill, but since I know David I feel pretty confident that he could just as well (maybe better) fill it.
DeusExMachina
On a side note, although "recipes" is a more common word in the programming world, I like your suggested "spells" more.
whyme
I personally see more of a need for centralizing the Clojure Blogs/News/Articles (i.e. your blog entries have helped me more than any wiki). The real problem is sifting through the Google Group or Google searches. It's tedious. So I can't help but think creating a site like hackernews or the arc forum would be a huge benefit to the Clojure community. Having a centralized location for blogs with a voting system and a currency stemming front page would be a big deal to me.

I'm short on time these days, but as a side project I am about 80% done creating one fully developed in Clojure. I suppose I could have just used the arc code, but that felt wrong. So if no one else beats me to it I will pitch it out there. It may take a few months for me to get around to finishing though.

turtle4
http://planet.clojure.in is a nice start.

I have no idea who actually maintains the list, i.e. is it 'official' or not, and it doesn't include voting, but it is a nice stream of clojure news.

onefortwo
The cook-book is at an early stage, from the post: Areas for future exploration:Regular Expressions,File Access,Directories,Databases,Networking,Email,Graphics and Concurrency.