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830! How a carpenter got the highest Scrabble score ever. Great story—they weren’t even playing particularly well.
Tim Berners-Lee: Reinventing HTML. “It is necessary to evolve HTML incrementally.” W3C to work on HTML again.
Python, Metaclasses and Overloaded Methods. Really great explanation and demonstration of metaclasses.
Zope 3 in 30 Minutes. I understand Zope 3 better having read this.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates. Holy cow, when did this start? 50,000 articles and counting.
BT acquires Counterpane Internet Security (via) They just bought Bruce Schneier.
Brazil elections and postponed DST start. I’m doing stuff with timezones at the moment. Timezones are evil.
Dojo 0.4 release notes (via) GFX (a 2D drawing API) is awesome; dojo.html.metrics looks extremely useful, and onDomLoad is always nice.
Poking new holes with Flash Crossdomain Policy files. Very scary attack: if you can upload a file to a server, you can probably open it up to XSRF.
SQLite Keynote. SQLite 3.3.8 has full text indexing!
Pygments: Python syntax highlighter. Well designed API, really elegant software design.
Calendar of Strange English events in England, Scotland and Wales (via) Fantastically useful calendar.
The Virtual Life: IE At Arms Length. Developing for IE with a RAID disk full of VMs.
err.the_blog: My Rails Toolbox. Good overview of what’s hot in Rails land this season.
Obi-Wan the Cursor. Neat hardware hack for tracking a mouse cursor over four screens.
Geotagging with Zonetag and Bluetooth GPS. I’ve been playing with this stuff for a while—it’s awesome fun.
MetaCarter Labs: Map Rectifier. Tool for georeferencing images.
SimpleXML processing with PHP. Good tutorial, with honest discussion of SimpleXML’s limitations.
Framework Shootout Part 2, Django. Video of my 20 minute wiki demo at EuroPython back in July.
Clean your flat in sixty seconds... Time-lapse video as personal productivity tool.
xkcd: Nihilism. Zomg squirrels!
Screening People with Clearances. Classic Schneier analysis.
Multimap API v1.1 (via) Multimap have released their JavaScript map API. It’s really nice.
Romeo. An open-source Salling Clicker equivalent.
MetaCarta Labs. Geocoding and related tools.
Gutenkarte. Browse locations from Project Gutenberg books on a map.
Cookbook/Matplotlib/Maps. Making neat globe diagrams with Python.
WordPress Clone in 27 Seconds (Part 1 of 40). A pleasantly informal Django blog tutorial.
3 Easy Steps to Avoid JavaScript Memory Leaks. YUI handles two of them for you; avoid DOM expandos as well and you should be set.
Peter Callesen’s papercut art. I incorrectly attributed these to an anonymous Vietnamese artist.