If there’s an Andre 3000 and a Python 3000,why not a Guido 3000?
It’s been a long-time topic of discussion in the Python camp: Python 3.0, also known colloquially in the Python community as “Python 3000″ or “Py3k”, and today it got a little more real. The first alpha release of Python 3000 is now available [...]
The Facebook development articles continue at the Tucows Developer Blog, this time with Using the FacebookRestClient Class’ “Photo” Methods, Part 3: photos_getTags.
Forget about what the RIAA and MPAA are saying about Bittorrent: its real danger comes from the fact that supervillains use it!
In Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four issue 549, sonic supervillain Klaw is back with a vengeance. Made of “solidified sound”, Klaw can create sounds powerful enough to kill and destroy. He was believed to be [...]
When Acer announced that they were acquiring Gateway, I remember quipping to my officemates that “If they really wanted to scrape the bottom of the barrel, they should really buy out Packard Bell.”
Looks like I spoke too soon.
There is a silver lining to this: gathering them all into a single cesspool makes ‘em easier to [...]
What Did You Want to Be When You Grew Up?
According to a Workopolis poll of Canadians, more than 80% of Canadians aren’t doing the job they dreamed of doing when they were children.
Possible dream jobs.
The poll posed these two questions to adults:
What was your dream job when you were between the ages of 5 and [...]
In his blog Rough Type, Nicholas Carr points out the hypocrisy in Yahoo’s move to dismiss a lawsuit against them filed by jailed Chinese dissidents. The suit is being filed on the behalf of Yu Ling, wife of Wang Xiazoning, who was arrested on some rather suspciously-totalitarian-sounding charges such as “incitement to subvert state power”.
Nick’s [...]
The first thing you’ll notice about Boing Boing if you visit it today is the new cleaner, two-column look:
You might have also heard of its new gadget blog, located at gadgets.boingboing.net, run by Joel Johnson, former editor of Gizmodo and current editor of Dethroner.
The change that interests me most is something that Boing [...]
Back when I was a kid in the late 70s and early 80s, I loved the Usborne series of books about life in the future. Now that I’m living in the future, I’m trying to find these old books and see how many of their predictions of life today came true. The Usborne Guide to [...]
Overheard on the #rubyonrails IRC channel:
[ Following a discussion in which someone talks about how his company is switching from a web-based app to a thick client. ]
<Vardogr> Bad ideas never die, they just get new project names.
I was most amused by this comment made in response to the Engadget article about Acer’s announcement that they plan to acquire Gateway:
Wow, when 2 turds collide! This should be an exciting merger.
Having been an owner of two Acer laptops (one back in 1997, the other being the Vista PC sent to me in Microsoft’s [...]