Simon Willison’s Weblog

The Athena Framework. CERN’s ATLAS particle accelerator experiment is scriptable with Python. 2:43 pm

Sigourney Weaver To Narrate Planet Earth. The Discovery Channel have replaced Sir David Attenborough’s narration of Planet Earth with Sigourney Weaver. Outrage! 2:56 pm

Metaprogramming JavaScript Presentation. Adam McCrea demonstrates some incredibly elegant DSL -style JavaScript based on chaining method calls together. 7:45 pm

Death threats against bloggers are NOT “protected speech” (why I cancelled my ETech presentations). Truly sickening behaviour. 10:29 pm