del.icio.us links for 2005-02-28

• The GeoURL ICBM Address Server: GeoURL is a location-to-URL reverse directory. This will allow you to find URLs by their proximity to a given location. Find your neighbor's blog, perhaps, or the web page of the restaurants near you. (maps tool)
• Welcome to Busty Mousepads: This quality mouse pad features a CLEVER ergonomic wrist rest on a pair of gel boobs. Your friends will love it and will poke at it when you're not looking. Your girlfriend will probably think you're a pervert. (anime boobs funny)
• UNUSUAL TECHNICAL IMAGES OF EQUIPMENT USED IN WORLD WAR II: featuring technical cutaway drawings of submarines, ships, aircraft and arms PLUS contemporary photos of and on mostly "S" Class Royal Naval Submarines (history image wwii)
• Superdickery.com: Is Superman really a dick? Or just an asshole? Some of his super best friends return the favor. (comic funny)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-27

• Oddly Enough News: A good source of weird news. RSS feed available. (news rss weird)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-25

• Alien Loves Predator: In New York, no one can hear you scream.: The Alien and the Predator ate Seinfeld and Friends, and this is the end result. (comic humor nyc)
• The Big Hebowski: The Big Lebowski meets He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (cartoon humor mashup nsfw quicktime video)
• Site In An Hour: Making Simple Work of Complex CSS Layouts by Andrew Krespanis. Nice examples. (css howto layout)
• mod_auth_mysql: Authentication module for Apache which uses MySQL as the backend storage (apache authentication mysql)
• To the MAN who DID his hoochie on my hood!! \@@/ (PIC) - w4m: OH! and Thank you hooch for scratching my paint with your nipple piercings and dime store MR T rings!!! (funny photo rant)
• Man can sue for distress over surprise pregnancy: So much for "oral arguments". To add to the injustice, he has to pay child support. [article now gone] (evil funny sex weird)
• Reading Comprehension and Rate: One Column vs. Three Columns: Users, on average, took 28% more time to read a the one-column format as opposed to the three-column format. (layout)
• Penny Arcade!: Two ne'er-do-wells and their wacky adventures playing video games, punching babies, and corroding the human soul. (comic gaming humor)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-24

• Perceptual warfare in the classical Japanese martial arts: What a person anticipates and perceives when he contacts someone else's body. By Akira IWABUCHI (art biomechanical japan martial)
• ajax: a new approach to web applications: "Google Suggest and Google Maps are two examples of a new approach to web applications that we at Adaptive Path have been calling Ajax. The name is shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, and it represents a fundamental shift in what’s possible on (ajax css dom html javascript web xml xslt)
• Faux Columns: A List Apart: How do you get the right column’s background color to extend all the way down the page? (css howto layout)
• Hey Crackhead: Crackheads keep breaking off his spark plugs to make crackpipes. (funny rant weird)
• HumanDescent: Weird photomanipulation. Human-animal-machine mashups. (animal image mashup photo photomanipulation weird)
• This Place Sucks: Office Space meets the Super Friends (cartoon humor mashup quicktime video)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-23

• How to destroy the Earth: Destroying the Earth is harder than you may have been led to believe. (evil howto humor)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-22

• HOWTO: Using Archetypes SQLStorage and Advanced Tips: This HOWTO explains how you can use relational database features like triggers and rules to store your data in traditional relational database parent/child tables, while still accessing it with traditional Zope accessors. (archetypes database persistence plone postgresql sql zope)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-21

• Python 2.4 Quick Reference: (python)
• Vampire: Content Handler Selection Mechanism for mod_python (apache python web)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-17

• XML: Managing Data Exchange: A community textbook (xml)
• XIST: XIST is an extensible HTML/XML generator written in Python. XIST is also a DOM parser (built on top of SAX2) with a very simple and pythonesque tree API. Every XML element type corresponds to a Python class and these Python classes provide a conversion me (dom html python templates xml)
• Modest Apparel Christian Clothing Seamstress Sewing Custom Patterns Dresses Long Cape Maternity Wedding Attire Bridal Betrothal garments Nursing Wear Homebirth Ladies Women Homeschooling Children clothes undergarments gowns Lydia of Purple jumpers blouses: Worst domain name... ever! They'll even design web pages for you... "Don't be fooled by this plain black and white advertisement." (design dns funny religion web)
• Color Rules of Thumb: These are rules of thumb about color that you may find helpful. (art color design howto)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-16

• mozdev.org - flashblock: index: Flashblock is an extension for the Mozilla and Firefox browsers that takes a pessimistic approach to dealing with Macromedia Flash content on a webpage and blocks ALL Flash content from loading. It then leaves a placeholder on the page that allows you to (firefox flash mozilla)
• nevow Web Application Construction Kit: Nevow (pronounced nou-veau) is a web application construction kit written in Python. It is designed to allow the programmer to express as much of the view logic as desired in Python, and includes a pure Python XML expression syntax named stan to facilitat (framework html python templates twisted xml)
• Twisted Matrix Labs: Twisted: Twisted is a framework, written in Python, for writing networked applications. (framework python twisted)
• RockRage: Music Band Fonts: Totally awesome TrueType fonts for rock band logos, dude! (fonts truetype)
• Schneier on Security: SHA-1 Broken: SHA-1 has been broken. Not a reduced-round version. Not a simplified version. The real thing. (cryptography schneier security sha-1)
• The SchoolTool Project: SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence. (administration infrastructure python school twisted web zope)
• DNS Bajaj: DNS "by-eye" is a tool mainly for checking the delegation of a domain. It does this by making a graph of the interrelationships between all the nameservers involved in the managment of the domain and marking the servers that does funny stuff in a way that (dns tool)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-15

• SQLORB module: The SQLORB class and it's accompaning SQL class allow you to read and write objects using a DB-API connection object. [code might have some bitrot] (database object persistence python sql)
• rawdog: rawdog is an RSS Aggregator Without Delusions Of Grandeur. Written in Python, it uses Mark Pilgrim's feed parser to read RSS 0.9, 1.0, 2.0, CDF and Atom feeds. It runs from cron, collects articles from a number of feeds, and generates a static HTML page l (aggregator html python rss)
• Object Relational Membrane: The Object Relational Membrane is a Python package that provides the functionality of an object relational layer like EJB or other persistence storage systems. (database object persistence python sql)
• Trashy Tesla Coil: a tesla coil made entirely from junk from dumpster diving (coil diving dumpster tesla)
• CBS News | States Mull Taxing Drivers By Mile: California, Oregon considering tax on miles driven based on GPS data; odometers apparently forgotten. (gps liberty privacy tax)
• SimpleTAL: SimpleTAL is a stand alone Python implementation of the TAL, TALES and METAL specifications used in Zope to power HTML and XML templates. SimpleTAL is an independent implementation of TAL; there are no dependencies on Zope nor is any of the Zope work re-u (python templates zpt)
• Crypto-Gram Newsletter: Crypto-Gram is a free monthly e-mail newsletter from security expert Bruce Schneier, with over 100,000 readers. In its seven years of regular publication, Crypto-Gram has become one of the most widely read forums for free-wheeling discussions, pointed cri (cryptography liberty politics privacy schneier security)
• SQLObject: SQLObject is an object-relational mapper. It allows you to translate RDBMS table rows into Python objects, and manipulate those objects to transparently manipulate the database. (database object persistence python sql)
• CSS resources: Useful tips, tricks and hacks for CSS layout (css layout)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-14

• The Web Framework Shootout: a variety of web application frameworks have been developed in the last few years, often by developers who created a framework in the process of their own application development. Ian Bicking tries in this paper to show the flavor of these alternatives, a (framework python web)
• From high-tech driver's licenses to national ID cards? | CNET News.com: A recent vote in Congress endorsing standardized, electronically readable driver's licenses has raised fears about whether the proposal would usher in what amounts to a national ID card. (liberty privacy)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-11

• Foxylicious: Foxylicious is a Mozilla Firefox extension that syncs your del.icio.us bookmarks into your browser bookmarks. (del.icio.us firefox)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-10

• Comparing MySQL performance: With the introduction of the 2.6 Linux kernel, FreeBSD-5-STABLE, Solaris 10, and now NetBSD 2.0, you might be wondering which of them offers superior database performance. (freebsd gentoo linux mysql netbsd openbsd solaris)
• blastwave.org: Blastwave is a collective effort to create a set of binary packages of free software, that can be automatically installed to a Solaris computer (sparc or x86 based) over the network. Similar to Debian apt-get. (free packages software solaris sparc x86)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-09

• Google Maps: The best map server... ever. Google sure has some hard-core Javascript programmers. (ajax google maps tool)
• Neotonic ClearSilver: Clearsilver is a fast, powerful, and language-neutral HTML template system. In both static content sites and dynamic HTML applications, it provides a separation between presentation code and application logic which makes working with your project easier. (html python templates)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-08

• Mysql Cluster: Two server setup: HOWTO set up a mysql cluster for two servers (three servers required for true redundancy). For MySQL-4.1 and newer. (cluster howto mysql)
• IPython - An enhanced Interactive Python: An enhanced Interactive Python. Has some nice traceback coloring. introspection, and debugging features. (python)
• Gentoo Linux Packages: Available packages for Gentoo Linux. RSS feeds available. (gentoo linux)
• Amara XML Toolkit: Amara builds on 4Suite, but whereas 4Suite focuses more on literal implementation of XML standards in Python, Amara adds a much more Pythonic face to these capabilities. The idea is conformance with XML standards without losing the familiar Python feel. (python xml)
• PEP 249 -- Python Database API Specification v2.0: This API has been defined to encourage similarity between the Python modules that are used to access databases. (database python)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-07

• CherryTemplate: CherryTemplate is an easy and powerful templating module for Python. It used to be part of CherryPy but is now released as a separate/standalone module. (html python templates web)
• HTMLTemplate: HTMLTemplate converts HTML/XHTML templates into simple Python object models that can be manipulated through callback functions in your scripts. Fast, powerful and easy to use. (html python templates)
• Plex: a lexical analysis module for Python (python)
• Plone: A user friendly and powerful open source Content Management System (cms python zope)
• Cheetah: Cheetah is a Python-powered template engine and code generator. It can be used as a standalone utility or it can be combined with other tools. (html python templates)
• A Comparison of Python-based Template Packages: Templating schemes as compared by the developers of Webware (python templates)
• Zope.org: The Web Site for the Zope Community (framework python templates zope zpt)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-04

• Redland RSS 1.0 Validator and Viewer: Does your RSS 1.0 feed validate? Find out here. (rss tool validator)
• CherryPy: a pythonic, object-oriented web development framework (framework python web)
• The Dirty Punk Fuckin' Anarchy Machine !!: Now you can create your own punk song with no bloody effort at all. FUCK OFF! (flash funny music punk tool)

del.icio.us links for 2005-02-03

• JOTWeb Home Page: JOTWeb is a system for developing dynamic web applications using HTML and TAL/TALES/METAL for templating and Python for the programming. It integrates with the Apache web server using mod_python. (apache html python templates xml zpt)
• Kid: Kid is a simple pythonic template language for XML based vocabularies. (python templates xml)
• SomaFM: Listener Supported, Commercial Free Internet Radio: SomaFM is listener-supported, commercial-free, underground/alternative radio broadcasting from San Francisco. (internet mp3 music radio streaming)
• Digital Gunfire: Industrial Strength Aural Assault (internet mp3 music radio streaming)
• DNA Lounge: Audio Webcast: (internet mp3 music radio streaming)
• Mod_python Manual: (apache python)