September 2009
Top 10 tips to a new django developer — Rama... →
Good stuff that everyone learns in the first few weeks.
S3 Upload Snow Leopard Service →
Right click image, choose “Upload to S3”
URL of uploaded image is pasted to your clipboard.
August 2009
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) →
Imogen Heap (36)
Owl City (27)
Katy Perry (24)
M.I.A. (21)
Golden Bug (20)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“…an analysis of police reports on 2,752 bike-car accidents in Toronto...”
– Who Causes Cyclists’ Deaths? - Freakonomics Blog
Baseline, a designer (typographic) CSS framework →
Can’t wait to try this one out:
Built with typographic standards in mind, Baseline makes it easy to develop a website with a pleasing grid and good typography. Baseline starts with several files to reset the browser’s default behavior, build a basic typographic layout — including style for HTML forms and new HTML 5 elements — and build a simple grid system. Baseline was born to be a quick...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-23) →
Owl City (148)
Junior Boys (38)
The Lonely Island (18)
Three 6 Mafia (16)
Taking Back Sunday (16)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Reuters: Bolt breaks world record to win 200 gold →
Wowie wow wow!
Triple Olympic champion Usain Bolt of Jamaica shattered his 200 meters world record, clocking 19.19 seconds to win the world championship gold medal on Thursday.
A response to Dropping Django →
From the The Uswaretech Blog: Some solutions for the previous individual who is dropping Django could’ve tackled the problems they faced.
The easiest one is using Jinja2 templates instead of Django’s templating system. As I understand it, it’s almost 100% seamless to use Jinja and you get all the wonkish logical stuff some people seem to desire in their templating systems:
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Dropping Django →
The account of an individual whose small team is slowly moving away from using Django.
None of the “problems” this individual encountered are insurmountable, some are just ideological differences with how Django works. In fact, these types of problems are those a team undoubtedly will run up against using any sort of Django-style web framework for any sufficiently advanced site. ...
Did run today with 3/1/1km at 6.0-6.2 mph. Did the whole 5k in 30:11 minus the two minute breaks
conservation of angular momentum
Three 6 Mafia Ridin' Spinners
they don't stop
I got twenty inch spinners on my drop / Nothin' but white and yellow rocks in my watch / I'm doin' one-fifty so I'm watchin' for the cops / Since I'm in the Lamborghini I ain't gon' stop
why don't they stop?
they ridin'
inertia
conservation of angular momentum
paired with a low coefficient of friction no doubt
correct
yes
that might be a little too cerebral for the song
< aenima> don't let po po make you waste inertia
Amanda Blank — A Love Song
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Esquire's profile of Don Wildman →
I want to be Don Wildman when I grow up:
A deep growl booms out from the center of the room, where Don Wildman, the Circuit’s master practitioner, wearing faded jeans and a Sonic Youth T-shirt, stands barefoot, holding a pair of fifty-pound weights. Muscular, lean, six-two, with a trim beard, he looks like Sean Connery, if Connery had borrowed the body of a U.S. marine. This gym, filled...
Django 1.1 aggregation tutorial →
A good explaination and tutorial on using Django 1.1’s new aggregration/annotation support.
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I have a special case of Aggregation in a recent Django application I wrote. It is essentially a traffic tracker for a major website.
It...
I ran the whole 5km today at 6mph (31:02) Woop! Onward and upward.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-16) →
Owl City (90)
The Starting Line (80)
Santogold (57)
Major Lazer (55)
M.I.A. (51)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
MSNBC.com acquires EveryBlock →
What does this mean for EveryBlock users? A couple of things.
First, obviously, it means that we’re going to keep the site going. We’ll continue to run the first and best microlocal news Web site on the planet, with the same six people, with the same logo and design, with the same everyblock.com domain. MSNBC.com has hired our whole team, and they’ve made it clear to us that...
Adrian Holovaty: EveryBlock acquisition and me →
Awesome news for Adrian and the EB crew!
I’m excited to announce some huge news. EveryBlock, the project I’ve led for the last two years, has been acquired by MSNBC.com.
Gone Forever: What Does It Take to Really... →
For Matthew Alan Sheppard, all of the anxiety, deception, and delusion converged in one moment on a crisp winter weekend in February 2008. From the outside, he hardly seemed like a man prepared to abandon everything. At 42, he’d been happily married for 10 years, with a 7-year-old daughter and a comfortable home in Searcy, Arkansas… He had been steadily putting on weight and now tipped the...
Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways →
stevenf:
When I think back to using the Apple ][ lab in elementary school, four pieces of software come immediately to mind, as vividly as if I’d just run them this morning:
1) Rocky’s Boots - Taught the fundamentals of digital electronics and Boolean logic.
2) Lemonade Stand - Taught the basics of supply and demand economics.
3) Logo - Taught the basics of functional programming, and maybe...
Attention TV owners: Cool as Ice is now available
for rent or purchase from the iTunes Store:
