del.icio.us links for 2006-03-31

• Construct -- parsing made fun: Construct is a python module for defining arbitrary bit-level data structures. Once a data structure (aka, "construct") is defined, it can be used to both parse raw data into an object and build an object into raw data. (programming python)
• Sploid: 'That monster made our boobs too big': Three women are suing the man they paid to inflate their flaccid egos with saline. They say their breasts are now too big and they demand justice. Felice Rosenbaum says that Dr. Brad Jacobs has turned her into a double-D monster. (boobs funny health news newyork nyc sploid us weird)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-29

• MochiKit – A lightweight Javascript library: MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get shit done, fast. We took all the good ideas we could find from our Python, Objective-C, etc. experience and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript. (ajax api cool css framework javascript software web2.0 xml)
• Sploid: 8-year-old criminal of love!: An 8-year-old honor student is in big trouble for giving a note to a classmate. The note said "I love you." Sexual harassment and assault. School officials then cooked up a physical-assault charge: He touched his little girlfriend's backside. (crime evil love news ohio sploid us weird)
• Sploid: Woman ticketed for 'BUSHIT' sticker: An Athens, Georgia woman was recently ticketed by a jack-booted thug as she drove home from work. Her offense? Lewd decals, an offense that doesn't exist. What had caught the officer's eye though was a bumper sticker that read "I'm tired of all the BUSHIT (athensga atlanta bush evil georgia law news sploid)
• WWE: Illegal Mexican Wrestlers Taking Smackdowns American Wrestlers Don't Want | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon defended the league's reliance on Mexican wrestlers as "the only way fans can witness the grueling, bone-crunching maneuvers that American wrestlers want nothing to do with." (humor immigration mexico news sports theonion us)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-28

• Dojo - DojoToolkit.org: Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time. It fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don't go quite far enough, and gives you powerful, portable, lightweight, and tested tools for constructi (ajax api css framework html javascript programming)
• American FactFinder: Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data (business economics reference us)
• Onomatopeyas: AIEEE! ARRRGH! AWK! BAM! BANG! Bang-eth! BAP! BIFF!!! BLOOP! BLURP! BOFF! BONK! CLANK! CLASH! CLUNK! CR-A-A-A-CK! CRASH! CRUNCH! EEE-YOW! FLRBBBBB! GLIPP!!! GLURPP! KAPOW! KAYO KER-PLOP! KER-SPLOOSH KLONK! KRUNCH! (batman comic design reference tv typography weird)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-27

• Seed: Prime Numbers Get Hitched: In their search for patterns, mathematicians have uncovered unlikely connections between prime numbers and quantum physics. Will the subatomic world help reveal the illusive nature of the primes? (42) (mathematics news physics)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-25

• La Bête: The Killing Machine of France: 240 years ago in the now defunct Provence of Gévaudan France the killings began again. 71 years earlier a beast like La Bête had reportedly killed up to 200 people all women and children. Last reported killing by a La Bête like beast was 1954. (france history werewolf wolf)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-24

• Brian Romero: Lost Cartoons "Russian Rhapsody": Watch Adolf Hitler get his ass kicked in this 1944 Warner Bros. classic. Via John K.'s blog (all kinds of stuff) (cartoon history humor nazi video war)
• Terrorism Fan Site Full Of Spoilers | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: The terrorism fan website AintItCruelNews.com has come under fire for publishing "spoilers" that give away future terrorist acts. (humor news terrorism theonion web)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-22

• Nifty Corners Cube - freedom to round: Nifty Corners Cube are a solution to get rounded corners without images (css html javascript layout)
• More Fun than Church Store : CafePress.com: John K. (Ren & Stimpy) has merch! (fashion johnk shop)
• It's the crappiest place on Earth!: Signs warning of bird droppings were posted along a stretch in downtown Orlando this week after cars, benches, sidewalks, plants and even people are hit and covered by the white bird waste. (florida funny news orlando photo shit us)
• Sploid: Rise of the American Death Squads: Clad in black, grunting weirdly and trained in terror, America's police-state death squads are slaughtering innocent people as they replace the normal cops who once served U.S. towns. (evil liberty news privacy security sploid us)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-20

• Zenoss : Home : Open Source Systems Management: Zenoss is a powerful, integrated, easy-to-use IT infrastructure monitoring software product. (mysql network python rrdtool snmp tool twisted zope)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-19

• The Inspiration Grab-Bag: Floyd Gottfredson - Mickey Mouse Newspaper Comics (1935): Series of newspaper strips that actually has quite a good storyline and comic artwork. Plus, when Mickey gets stressed out he says, "I need a pill!", and there's a big gun battle. But all in all, he uses his wits and good nature to win out in the end. (comic history)
• Dome Homes From American Ingenuity: Pre-fab reinforced concrete geodesic dome house kits. (cool energy environment florida us weird)
• Billy West: 26 new Futurama TV episodes: Billy West (Stimpy, Fry) writes: they're doing 26 new episodes of ''Futurama'' for TV and we're hammering out the deal now.The original plan was to have the DVD's first but that's no longer the case. I'm totaly jammed dude. (cartoon cool futurama news tv)
• Mythbusters Test The Vex Robotic Design System: The Mythbusters test the Vex Robotics Starter Kit ($299 from Radio Shack) and proclaim that it "kicks butt". Be sure to check out the "online extension" to the article (link on page 2). (cool dyi howto robot)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-18

• 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference: Like most Nigerians, you're probably finding that it's increasingly difficult to earn a decent living from email. That's why you need to attend the 3rd Annual Nigerian EMail Conference. [via Schneier on Security] (email evil humor nigeria spam)
• Boing Boing: Marvel Comics: stealing our language: Marvel and DC and trying to joining get a trademark on the term "super-hero". Cory Doctorow suggests we adapt the term "underwear perverts". (boingboing comic copyright evil news)
• Cerado's Web 2.0 or Star Wars Quiz: 43 items. Can you tell which ones are Web 2.0 and which are Star Wars? I scored a 28. (funny starwars web2.0)
• Sploid: Operation B.S.: While U.S. media claimed "Operation Swarmer" was some massive military campaign, in reality it was nothing but some helicopters flying around. There were no air strikes. Just 48 "suspected insurgents" were captured, and 17 of those were immediately releas (business iraq media news oil sploid us war)
• Sploid: Rise of the alcoholic robots!: Mad scientists at a Texas university are building monstrous human-shaped robots that run on liquor. Yes, just like Bender on Futurama. Hide the Olde Fortran! (beer cartoon news robot science sploid texas us weird)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-16

• Channel 4 - History - The Nazi Expedition: In 1938, German scientists embarked on an extraordinary quest to the remote kingdom of Tibet. Officially they were undertaking zoological and anthropological research. But they were also members of Himmler's SS and their mission had a darker purpose – t (nazi religion weird)
• Vertically and Horizontally Centering a DIV: Clean and simple HTML and CSS. (css howto html layout)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-15

• Poverty-Stricken Africans To Receive Desperately Needed Bibles | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: More than 60,000 urgently needed Bibles arrived to allay suffering throughout the famine-stricken nation of Niger Friday, in one of the largest humanitarian-relief operations ever attempted by a Christian ministry. (africa funny news religion texas theonion us weird)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-14

• Sploid: Chef quits over Scientology jabs: Beloved cartoon character "Chef" is leaving the television comedy "South Park" because it mocks religions. But the show's creators say that's a bunch of nonsense, and that Chef is only leaving the show because "South Park" recently tore apart Scientology. (colorado issachayes news religion scientology southpark sploid tv us weird)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-13

• Sploid: Japanese worship 'gutsy radish': Said of Dai-chan, the first "dokonjo daikon," "People discouraged by tough times were cheered by its tenacity and strong will to live." The second gutsy radish is about 4 centimeters in diameter, with leaves that reportedly "span the width of a human hand (food japan news sploid weird)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-09

• Rapid Fire #1: Photo-Realistic at SixThings: Make your digital images more convincing and lifelike with just a handful of gradients and custom shadows. Once you’re done, your pictures will look like real photo prints, you’d swear they popped out of the screen. (howto photography photomanipulation photoshop)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-08

• Sploid: Mystery beast prowls N.C. woods: A bizarre creature is haunting the workers at North Carolina's Tyco Electronics campus, and they've got the amazing pictures and video to prove it. (chupacabra news northcarolina photo sploid us weird werewolf wolf)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-07

• ASPN : Python Cookbook : neat notation for python closures: Alternative notation for defining closures in python; It avoids packing closure variables into containers by assigning attributes to the inner function. (cool programming python)
• How to tell the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0: (howto humor image web web2.0)
• Ten of the Biggest Mistakes Developers Make With Databases: (database howto)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-06

• MAKE: Blog: Street-legal jet powered VW Beetle: Ron writes - "This is a my street-legal jet car on full afterburner. The car has two engines: the production gasoline engine in the front driving the front wheels and the jet engine in the back." (boingboing car cool jet photo vw weird)
• Bryan's Rice-Boy Page: This homepage is dedicated to exposing the ridiculousness of the Rice-Boy "subculture". What started out as a Southern California Asian subculture has grown into a worldwide phenomenon afflicting those of all races. (car funny photo weird)
• Woot : Winners' Gallery: the Best of Contest 62: Eeriely plausible remakes of TV shows and movies, include "My Muthah Tha Car", Jerry Bruckheimer's "Gilligan's Island", and M. Night Shyamalan's "Little House on the Prairie". (funny image mashup movie tv)

del.icio.us links for 2006-03-04

• Sploid: Robot War Donkey!: The Pentagon's mad scientists are ready to unleash a hellish robotic pack mule. The robotic beast of burden is being built to carry supplies for soldiers (presumably human) over rough terrain including steep hills, leg-breaker rocks, thick mud and even de (donkey news science sploid us war weird)

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

• Modern-Day John Henry Dies Trying To Out-Spreadsheet Excel 11.0 | The Onion - America's Finest News Source: Office laborers across the nation are mourning the passing of Wallace Peters, 42, the mythic three-column accountant at Chesapeake & Ohio Consultants who pitted himself against Microsoft's latest version of the popular spreadsheet program Excel. (humor microsoft news theonion us)

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

• Layout Gala: a collection of 40 CSS layouts based on the same markup and ready for download!: (css design html layout xhtml)