Tim O'Reilly Q and A at Slashdot is an interesting read. Pick Quote: "Nobody ever got fired for using Open Source".
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On the heels of having seen Eric Rohmer's Autumn Tale over the weekend (brief summary - pleasant, a light french film), this article from the NY Times on Ancient Wines was a piece of some interest.
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New Python-URL available for reading. Resource listings and discussions from comp.lang.python.
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Thanks to the IMPP mailing list, I ran across the Linux Scalability Project. Interesting stuff they're doing, particularly for those of us in mixed-use environments.
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Current Lingua Franca has a listing of the breakthrough Graphic Design books by several authors.
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Picks from 6 September New Yorker: a hilarious Jack Handey piece, and a compelling read on Balthus.
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Odd, somewhat mean-spirited, but entertaining, column by Greil Marcus from Salon.
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New Weekly Breakdown available.
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Recent filmic experience: Mystery Men. Entertaining, a many-chortle film. And it was great to see Paul Reubens in fine form again. Certainly worth a matinee price (but I can never make the cheap showings any more for some reason...
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Ref'd on the vacuum weblog is a nice review of the Tufte seminar.
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New Vacuum is out, and well worth the time to read.
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Current Paper Readings: Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution, and Uncommon Ground: The History of Coffee and How it Transformed Our World. Both are interesting social studies, albeit from different sides of the societal coin. [musingly, it could be argued that the shade-tree coffee growing idea is a similar social reflection to Red Hat's work, though if you called me on it, I probably couldn't justify such a statement!]
And the usual rereading of the Camel...
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Interesting scraping discussion at userland.
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Starting a weblog using blogger.com which undoubtably has some sort of failing that will not evince itself until I try it out...
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