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Unicode character information. Useful lookup tool.
Startup key combinations for Intel-based Macs. I wish I didn’t need these...
Incompatible SQLite in OS X and Python. I’ve hit this problem; James has the solution.
BuddyLube (warning: plays music). Best. Jingle. Evah.
Including Dojo, The Really Easy Way. Drop in a single include to load code on demand from AOL’s CDN.
ElementTree Text Helper. Monkey patches a textlist() method in to ElementTree.
Frank Wierzbick: I now work for Red Hat (via) Includes news of Jython progress: slots support is in, which hopefully is a solid step towards Python 2.3 compatibility.
python-dateutil. A bunch of useful datetime extensions, including recurrence rules and date parsing.
Inside World of Warcraft Gold Farm, Future of Work. Half a million (!) people make a living farming gold in World of Warcraft.
’Pump-and-Dump’ Spam Surge Linked to Russian Bot Herders. Many people I’ve talked to have noticed an up-surge in spam recently. This could be why.
Hex Fiend Developers Overview. Best code documentation I’ve seen in ages.
Resizable Reloaded—A reusable component for resizing elements. Another useful YUI widget from Jack Slocum, with a clear and well designed API.
15-second delay. Train doors driven by GPS have a manual over-ride for covered stations.
The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security. Thought provoking.
Riding Rails: Rails 1.2: Release Candidate 1. Highlights include REST, resources and unicode support.
Rich-Media Delivery In Second Life—A HOWTO. Second Life supports SMIL, via QuickTime.
The Spam Farms of the Social Web. Really interesting exposé by Niall Kennedy.
Natalie Downe: Inline image quotes. Neat CSS trick this one.
Zhongdian. Ping’s continuing adventures in China.
bbum: How to harvest a turkey. Fascinating, if a little graphic.
Flickr Camera Finder. I hadn’t seen this; includes some really nice graphs.
TheyWorkForYou.co.nz. Rob McKinnon’s site for tracking New Zealand’s Parliament.
The top 10 arguments against DRM. Includes some good business arguments I hadn’t heard before.
Donut Robot of Love 2000 (via) IM ON UR ROBOT EATIN UR DONUTZ (scroll to comments)
The continued adventures of the Permalink slideshow. Now powered in part by YUI.
How To Subclass The JavaScript Array Object. Utterly brilliant—create a fresh copy of Array in an iframe and customise that.
minimock. Python mock object library for use with doctest, in 25 lines of code.
Introducing the Technorati Link Count Widget. I’m trying this out; it’s pretty sweet. Nicely unobtrusive too.
Django on OS X setup notes. MySQLdb currently depends on Python 2.3.3 or higher.
New World Notes on the Second Life CopyBot controversy. Absolutely fascinating, especially the in-game protests.