del.icio.us links for 2006-02-03

• Python at Google (Greg Stein - SDForum) (panela.blog-city.com): A writeup of Greg Stein's keynote last week at the SDForum Python Meeting. RPC is the method Google uses to scale horizontally so well. Python is rarely a bottleneck. "We use [MySQL] specifically because it is open source". (google mysql programming python)
• Google.com and Google.cn side-by-side image search: In this example, "tianamen". Oops, banned from China now. [via Schneier on Security] (china google image schneier search)
• Sploid: Defiant vampire will 'never give up magic': The Ukrainian vampire caught again by police last week has defiantly told police and the press that she'll never stop her witchy ways. Cops say she was selling blood to black magicians -- blood she took from Odessa's homeless kids... (crime news religion ukraine vampire weird)
• Sploid: NYC battles vampire rabbis: New guidelines issued by New York City’s health commissioner calls for rabbis to stop sucking the blood from the freshly cut foreskin of infant boys. It does not explicitly ban the practice, however. (news newyork nyc religion sploid us vampire weird)
• Sploid: The French get fat: A shocking new study by France's fashion industry has found that French gals weigh about 5 pounds more than they did in 1970. They're especially bigger in the butt, the study found. One in three Frenchmen are overweight, while one in four French women are (bigbutts diet exercise food france funny news sploid)