Bloggercon 3 - Law
- Lawrence Lessig's talk at Bloggercon 3 just hit IT Conversations.
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on Tue 11/30/04
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Practical Common Lisp
- Looks like a lot of real-world stuff in here and is also very recent.
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on Tue 11/30/04
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What's New in Python 2.4
- Generator expressions, simpler string substitution, built-in set Objects, function decorators, subprocess module, and much more...
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on Mon 11/29/04
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How to Kill a Mockingbird - The Book Report
- I forgot about the burning shark!
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on Mon 11/29/04
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Planet Classpath
- GNU Classpath (GPL'd J2SE implementation) hacker weblogs.
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on Sun 11/28/04
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Quotations and citations: quoting text
- Some information on using proper q and blockquote elements in HTML and then styling them with CSS to fix all the browser brokeness.
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on Wed 11/24/04
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The py.test tool and library
- This seems to be a bit cleaner and more functional than the standard python unittest module.
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on Tue 11/23/04
at 07:33 PM
Fedora Core 3 Installation Notes
- Instructions for getting a FC3 installed and up to snuff.
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on Tue 11/23/04
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Physicists Decry Bush's Mars Mission Plan
- 43,000 of 'em, in fact..
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on Mon 11/22/04
at 08:15 AM
Neal Stephenson's System of the World concludes the Baroque Trilogy
- Doctorow with a short review of the Baroque Cycle.
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on Mon 11/22/04
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RFC 1925 - The Twelve Networking Truths
- "Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick two." (via Simon Willison)
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on Sun 11/21/04
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Does a Free Download Equal a Lost Sale?
- The Times reports studies on how much real harm freely downloadable music is causing the record industry. The numbers don't surprise me: free sharing has a neglible effect on immediate sales but also creates more demand for music in general.
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on Sun 11/21/04
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Open Source Licenses Are Not All the Same
- Pretty good look at the four mainstream F/OSS license models.
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on Sun 11/21/04
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Essays 1743
- An LGPL old-school print-press looking font similar to the font used in different parts of Stephenson's Baroque Cycle.
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on Fri 11/19/04
at 09:54 PM
Red Hat Magazine
- I hope they keep this semi-technical. First issue looks pretty good.
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on Fri 11/19/04
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Metaphilm - Fight Club
- Tremendous theory on how Fight Club is based on, and a continuation of, Calvin and Hobbes.
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on Fri 11/19/04
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Emacs Keybindings for Firefox
- This is one of the last things I've been waiting for before switching from Safari. Now if only the scrollwheel worked a little nicer and I could get a decent proxy-configuration plugin...
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on Fri 11/19/04
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Mozilla's Firefox key to Free Culture
- Firefox as "gateway drug" to Free Culture for the masses.
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on Thu 11/18/04
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Virgin Mary sandwich
- phaw! how do we know that's not some other virgin?
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on Wed 11/17/04
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Inside The Election Fraud Battle - Think Kerry Is Not Involved In This Fight?
- Hmm.. Kerry is either a liar or a genious.
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on Tue 11/16/04
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Knuth: Open Letter to Condolezza Rice
- Knuth and Rice were at Stanford together (as faculty). Interesting note: this is only the second letter Knuth has written to a gov. official. The other time was Vietnam.
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on Tue 11/16/04
at 06:47 AM
ZODB/ZEO Programming Guide
- I think I'm going to give ZODB a try with my blogging system.
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on Tue 11/16/04
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