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Flickr: Photos from Space Explorer. Space tourist with a Flickr photo stream.

# 26th September 2006, 3:25 pm / flickr

Windows XP Privilege Escalation Exploit. Trivial exploit using the at command.

# 25th September 2006, 7:42 pm

Jython changelog. Plenty of signs of life here.

# 25th September 2006, 2:51 pm / jython

Introducing MobMart. New UK mobile/auction startup, powered by Django.

# 25th September 2006, 2:40 pm

Ajax Buzzword Bingo (via) Nice demo of five different Ajax transport methods.

# 25th September 2006, 12:29 pm

Yahoo! UI Extensions Library Release .32. Jack Slocum is doing some really awesome things on top of YUI.

# 25th September 2006, 12:04 pm

The Web is a Pipe. I just saw Duncan talk about this at Euro RailsConf—really, really important concepts here.

# 15th September 2006, 5:06 pm

Google Code projects labeled django. Wow, there’s 39 of them already!

# 14th September 2006, 6:08 am

Design patterns of 1972 (via) Patterns are signs of weakness in programming languages.

# 14th September 2006, 5:57 am / design-patterns

nginx: reverse proxy panacea. Another event loop based web server to keep an eye on.

# 13th September 2006, 11:39 pm

Bletchley hums again to the Turing Bombe. They’ve rebuilt Alan Turing’s computer. Awesome.

# 12th September 2006, 10:29 pm

Ruby and Strongtalk. Dynamic language function calls don’t have to be slow.

# 12th September 2006, 9:32 pm

Subversion 1.4 release notes. Includes diff optimizations and a new repository mirroring tool.

# 12th September 2006, 1:36 pm / subversion

Godfather of Hackney. Mafia don arrested in London.

# 11th September 2006, 10:37 pm

Differential Synchronization. How that browser-based collaborative editor actually works.

# 11th September 2006, 6 pm

Omakase—contextual ads from Amazon. Presumably combines info about the page with info from your Amazon cookie.

# 11th September 2006, 3:57 pm

Neil Fraser: Software: MobWrite. Very impressive web-based collaborative text editor.

# 11th September 2006, 1:01 pm / neil-fraser

The Great British Cheese Festival. Now on Upcoming—a weekend of cheese!

# 11th September 2006, 12:20 pm / cheese

Advogato is going offline. A real shame—this has long been a favourite lurking ground.

# 11th September 2006, 12:12 pm

Jim Hugunin: IronPython 1.0 released today! The Python ecosystem gets stronger by the day.

# 6th September 2006, 12:50 pm

UTF-8 Sampler. Good source for cheap UTF-8 testing via copy and paste.

# 1st September 2006, 1 am

The Screening Room #8: IronPython. Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.

# 1st September 2006, 12:51 am / ironpython, jon-udell, python

The Screening Room #8: IronPython. Screamingly cool demo, with commentary from Jim Hugunin and Jon Udell.

# 1st September 2006, 12:51 am / ironpython, jon-udell, python

simonwillison tag on a map. Kind of creepy, but also very cool.

# 31st August 2006, 4:22 pm

Yahoo! Hack Day is coming. 24 hour outdoor hacking / camping party at Yahoo! US. Wish I could go.

# 30th August 2006, 3:54 pm

ZoneTag Upcoming.org integration. Awesome S60 phone upload application gets even better.

# 30th August 2006, 11:55 am

New Manipulators proposal. Raising forms as exceptions is weird, but actually really clever.

# 30th August 2006, 11:32 am

sudo sandwich. xkcd cracks me up.

# 30th August 2006, 6:50 am / funny, xkcd

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