“groovy mother...”

Good summary of some of the powerful pieces of Python that are easy to overlook if you’re used to other, let’s say “more verbose”, languages. I’ve been coding in Python for close to three years, and there was stuff I learned here (dict.setdefault: where have you been all my life?)

Good summary of why Jabber is awesome and the future of IM. I have to admit, I didn’t “get it” until I installed my own XMPP server and was able to hack up a bot in Python with about 20 lines of code.

Codec allowing you to reliably back your data up to dead-tree. You can print about 200kb to a sheet of A4, then scan it in later to retrieve your data.

Just picked this up, and a quick skim shows it’s something a bit special: Learn good coding practices by reading experts choice of “the most beautiful code they’ve seen”, with plenty of commentary. I’m halfway tempted to take a day off next week and just sit and read this all day.

Excellently skeptical article on companies’ presence in Second Life. “You might wonder what Coke is doing in such a place. “It had a lot to do with hype,” admits Michael Donnelly.”

Forget Moo Cards… *these* will be the essential wicked-classy cards to hand out at future Web Innovator Groups.