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Hallmarks of a Great Developer (via) What to aspire to.
Python Memory Management (via) It’s not quite as straight forward as you might have thought.
Working with Spotlight. Geek-friendly overview of Apple’s new search technology.
English “Squatters”. Jack T. Chick’s finest piece of creative insanity yet.
Your Vote Counts: Voting Equipment Information for Franklin County. Comical video, considering the news about the voting machines.
Voting machine error gives Bush 3,893 extra votes in Ohio. The machines were from Danaher, not diebold.
BitTorrent accounts for 35% of the internet’s bandwidth (via) No longer off the radar of the media industry.
Uncollapsing Margins (Complex Spiral Consulting) (via) Another critical CSS concept explained.
Wikipedia Firefox extension (via) Adds Wiki-markup shortcuts to the context menu.
Woke up this mornin’, got the election blues. How George Bush’s victory catapaulted liberal Britain into collective depression
Kerry concedes. Gutted.
User Education Is Not the Answer to Security Problems. Smart thinking on security from Jakob Nielsen.
Cache decorator in Python 2.4 (via) Nothing like a good example to understand why decorators are a cool language feature.
Bush website blocked outside US (via) BBC coverage.
Access Denied (via) They’ve blocked access to the site for IPs outside the US. Similarities to their whole foreign policy?
BBC News Online Wikiproxy (via) Automatically adding Wikipedia links to capitalised words is a brilliant, brilliant idea.
TiddlyWiki (via) Client-side Wiki in JavaScript. In page editing is The Next Big Thing.
Sam Ruby: Copy and Paste. This character encoding glitch has bitten me more times than I care to say.
kansascity.craigslist.org job: Monitor / Linguist. Evesdrop on phone calls for the DHS, for $45 an hour!
After Abu Ghraib. If even one tenth of this is true, it should be an international scandal.
Opera 7.60 Preview 1 Changenotes. XMLHttpRequest + other goodies.
XMLHttpRequest is coming to Opera! (via) It’s already in IE, Mozilla and Safari—Opera completes the set.
Compiling PNG utilities on Mac OS X. Likely to be useful at some point.
NetNewsWire 2.0b3 and MarsEdit public betas. Plenty of new features, free upgrades for registered users.
The Joel Test for Web Development. How much can web developers learn from software developers? A heck of a lot.
Boris Johnson—Conservative MP (via) The first Tory MP blog. Unfortunately most of the entries at the moment are by his press secretary.
Guardian Unlimited | Newsblog. The Guardian’s new blog. Interesting for the comments above anything else.
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby: Chapter 5. Them What Make the Rules and Them What Live the Dream
HOW-TO: Take digital photos from a kite. With detailed instructions on modding the camera to take a shot every second until the card fills up.