Blue Sky On Mars

This movie would be kind of funny if it got made.

New Python (and PHP) conference coming in November.

Great collection of tips for managing your history in Bash. This has already helped me out.

Self-explanatory, and a useful tool.

A Django-based combination wiki/relational database tool.

Easy to use way to peg a time that works for a bunch of people.

Nice looking deal site (I usually look at dealnews.com before making a largish electronics purchase)

Found this site via the same article that lead to my last link. It’s a coupon forum. Extremely unlikely that I have the patience for that!

This is like something that I prototyped but never carried beyond that stage. It’s a validation package that offers a JSON interface, which means it should be possible to integrate with server-side based validation packages (have them generate the appropr

Just what I needed! Concise instructions for installing lxml on OS X.

I didn’t realize that this risk exists, and it’s certainly a good thing to be aware of. Our daughter is just getting into swimming now.

A new Python and Ruby inspired language that targets Erlang’s VMs and concurrency oriented programming.

WebKit, after tons of performance improvements, gets a bytecode VM that makes it 1.6x (on average) faster.

Interesting discussion on some technologies used by financial institutions to handle much larger transaction counts than Twitter has.