The B-List: Latest linkshttp://www.b-list.org/feeds/links/2009-01-30T21:54:08ZJames BennettSunshine Soundtrack available on iTunes2009-01-30T21:54:08ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2009-01-30:/links/2009/jan/30/sunshine/
<p>I’ve had some disagreements with folks about the quality of this film, but the soundtrack is one of the best I’ve heard in recent years and was unaccountably delayed, delayed, then delayed again. And I didn’t even know it finally popped up in iTunes (exclusively in iTunes, apparently) in November, because the search function in the iTunes store doesn’t turn it up.
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<p>Give it a listen; it’s amazingly good ambient music.
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<p>I need more free time to spend with this.
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<p>Via <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/78668/This-is-phenomenal">Metafilter</a></p>
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<blockquote><p>That’s it. That’s Simpycity. Simple, easy, seamless mapping of PostgreSQL stored procedures to Python.
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</blockquote><p>Awesome stuff like this is why I ♥ Aurynn.
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<p>A crapload of useful information concerning browser support for useful performance tricks.
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<p>I actually ended up using this in real code at work, and it seems the simplest and most error-free way to do a “singleton” in Python.
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<p>Yoink.
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<p>Matt makes the future happen.
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<blockquote><p>At a deep level, debugging with print statements is superior to all other approaches. Which is good, because we seem to be stuck with it.
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<p>Now he just needs to be made a duke and a commander.
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<p>Via <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/77855/Thats-Sir-Pratchett-to-You">Metafilter</a></p>
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<p>An interesting-looking web crawler/scraper framework built on Twisted.
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<p>Somewhat old, but one of the best explorations I’ve found of technological issues surrounding copyright of digital works.
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<p>I know someone who’s getting this for Christmas.
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<p>I’ve always preferred the standard Mercurial workflow of cloning a repository when I want to branch and do some work (since it makes quite a few common operations easier), but this at least gives me something to point to when people ask for git-style branches in Mercurial.
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<blockquote><p>Because the idea of American exceptionalism doesn’t extend to Americans being exceptional. If you excelled academically and are able to casually use 690 <span class="caps">SAT</span> words then you might as well have the press shoot video of you giving the finger to the Statue of Liberty while the Dixie Chicks sing the University of the Taliban fight song. The people who want English to be the official language of the United States are uncomfortable with their leaders being fluent in it.
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</blockquote><p>Amen.
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<p>Via <a href="http://paragiraffe.com/bookmarks/2008/#5445b8e85b0efd9b0badbc0ea0af2ef7">Maura</a></p>
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<p>Let’s all sit around and compile a list of browsers which are more Free than Mozilla® Firefox®.
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<p>(“Mozilla” and “Firefox” are registered trademarks of the Mozilla Foundation. This site is not in any way affiliated with the Mozilla Foundation or the Mozilla Corporation.)
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