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• Refinancing tempting at these rates – The Globe and Mail –
• The Toyota Witch Hunt – BusinessWeek –
• API Documentation – Efficient similarity search by implementing different data structures for indexing metric spaces. Basically – a bk-tree.
• http://grahamstratton.org/straightornamental/entries/formencode – Nice article on FormEncode – because the Pylons docs are frankly kind of lacking
• SQL SERVER – FIX : Error 3154: The backup set holds a backup of a database other than the existing database « Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave –

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• Redirecting Error Messages from Command Prompt: STDERR/STDOUT –
• Triumph of the Cyborg Composer | Smart Journalism. Real Solutions. | Miller-McCune Online Magazine –
• Like, Python – Python -extended with awesome keywords like "Like", "Bro" ,"toootally" and "um yeah"
• DreamPie: The Python shell you’ve always dreamed about! – Supports CPython 2.5->3.1, Jython and IronPython.
• 21 Reasons Why Canadian Copyright Law is Already Stronger Than USA’s –

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• Office of the Parliamentray Budget Officer: Fiscal Sustainability Report Ottawa 2010 – As usual, 'conservative' for politics is rarely fiscally conservative. Love that first graph.
• suds – Trac –
• [1002.2284v1] Markets are efficient if and only if P = NP – Nerdgasm.
• Zeitgeist –
• Scalable, WSGI-compatible Websockets « Eventlet –

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• Java Splab: Crossing JACOB’s Java COM bridge –
• Stop selling scarcity « BuzzMachine –
• Jespa – Java Active Directory Integration – Jespa matches the functionality of the Windows NTLM SSP and supports all security policies exhibited by Windows clients and servers. Jespa fully implements NTLMv2 and uses it by default when acting as an initiator or acceptor.
• SpatiaLite download page – spatial data extensions for sqlite
• JetBrains PyCharm: IDE for Python – I do hate GUIs, but Jetbrains did make the finest IDE for Java

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• Newmarket Watch –
• 55 Free High Quality Icon Sets – Smashing Magazine –
• Global Warming Vs Clojure! | BEST IN CLASS – Interesting article data mining the NOAA data to reproduce the hockeystick graph
• for post in leo.blog():: The Jython Import Logic –
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Patch Branches for Mercurial (pbranch) –

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• crecord extension for Mercurial – The crecord mercurial extension allows you to interactively choose among the changes you have made (with line-level granularity), and commit only those changes you select. After committing the selected changes, the unselected changes are still present in your working copy, so you can use crecord multiple times to split large changes into several smaller changesets.
• Highcharts – Interactive JavaScript charts for your webpage –
• [#DERBY-3973] Create function wrappers for DatabaseMetaData so that you can join metadata results in queries. – ASF JIRA – Enhancing JavaDB/Apache Derby with extra intrsospection capabilities
• TCAF: Toronto Comic Arts Festival –
• InfoQ: Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design –

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• What Is China? – Most people probably assume that the reason for China’s enormous economic growth rates is simply size: anything powered by 1.2B people is bound to make a big splash. But India, with the self-proclaimed “oldest democracy in the world,” is about to exceed China’s population.
• Issue 1541: new static analyzer from Google – Jython tracker –
• UsageRecipes/SchemaDisplay – sqlalchemy – Trac – Convert sqlalchemy schemas into UML diagrams
• ato’s nailgun at master – GitHub – Fork of nailgun
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error

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• Endless Oil – BusinessWeek – Technology, politics, and lower demand will yield a bumper crop of crude
• BitNami: Open Source. Simplified – Installing apps for the lazy
• Analytics X Prize – Home –
• america canada: CMHC – Canada’s Breaking Point –
• Solution to killer superbug found in Norway – Yahoo! News –

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• Historic HomeWorks Forum :: View topic – Interior Storm Windows, Instructions – DIY interior storm window instructions
• JACOB – Java COM Bridge | Get JACOB – Java COM Bridge at SourceForge.net – Bridge from Java to COM. Handy when dealing with COM-only APIs
• Welcome to Weather Underground : Weather Underground –
• CupCake CNC Basic Kit – MakerBot Industries –
• Gridlock Economy :: Michael Heller –

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• Query Managed Auto Increment – Varying query managed insert behavior across differing database vendors.
• Climate change data dumped – Times Online –
• Flaherty warns on mortgage rules – The Globe and Mail –
• How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data – Bret Taylor’s blog –
• API – Cassandra Wiki –

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