The Game of Life(online.wsj.com)
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The Game of Life
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120034796455789469.html
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The linked article refers to the board game version rather than the gliders version.
For seriously playing around with Life you should try Hashlife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife). As the name say it uses hash table memoization to speed up the calculation. Dramatically.
Oops, I should have read the article first.