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Recyclable Paper Laptop by Je Sung Park » Yanko Design
I quite agree with Je Sung Park when he says that disposable cameras and cell phones have gained acceptance, so why don’t we take the next step and bring out a disposable computer. His Recyclable Paper Laptop is quite a raw version and could do with some refinement. It uses recycled paper or pulp material all packed in layers. This is so that you can easily replace the damaged portions (even corrugated paper will tear easy). The vibe of a Paper Laptop is intriguing, I kno eventually someone will figure out the tech bit, so let’s see who will take the bait.
La bit-lit et les ados, ou comment voir Edward Cullen partout …
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MD5SUM (Matéria)
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October 2009
getElementsBySelector - CSS Query Selector for HTML DOM < Scripts < Python < Bin-Co
getElementsBySelector is a python function which takes a standard CSS style selector and returns an array of elements objects from the document that match that selector. This is a frequently used function in JavaScript - if you use a library. Its kind of meaning less to have this function in the server side - unless you are doing screen-scarping. Then its very useful. Recently, I had to work on a Django app that does a bit of screen-scrapping - so I created this function to aid me.
Charles Apple » Blog Archive » First look: Redesign of the Washington Post
technobabbler » Blog Archive » drive a webcam with python
I bought a USB webcam off of eBay quite some time ago, and I decided to connect it to my telescope with a little bit of hardware hackery. I'll have to see about posting a writeup on how I did that at a later time. Anyway, when I installed my camera software, I quickly found how horrible the program was. It gave a tiny preview of what the camera saw, and had no way of capturing images or video without waaaay too many clicks of the mouse. That's when I decided to write my own in Python.
Securing a Domain: SSL vs. DNSSEC
September 2009
"That’s maybe a bit too dorky, even for us."
Creative Review - Hairy type
Our Wedding: Part 2 | The uber-emotional ceremony
Testing Google's Rich Snippets RDFa support from Philip Taylor on 2009-09-12 (public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org from September 2009)
I tested it a bit, and it seems that what's implemented in that tool bears very little relation to RDFa. It's not simply a buggy implementation - it's not even attempting to handle RDFa remotely correctly.
Comme d'habitude, Google et ses milliers de docteurs en sciences est infichu d'appliquer un standard, si minime soit-il, du premier coup. Il faut dire que les docteurs en sciences chez Google sont tous dans les département "datamining" et "publicité". A la programmation, ils n'ont laissé que les prag-ma-ti-ques.
Testing Google's Rich Snippets RDFa support from Philip Taylor on 2009-09-12 (public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org from September 2009)
I tested it a bit, and it seems that what's implemented in that tool bears very little relation to RDFa. It's not simply a buggy implementation - it's not even attempting to handle RDFa remotely correctly.
Tornado Web Server
Tornado is an open source version of the scalable, non-blocking web server and tools that power FriendFeed. The FriendFeed application is written using a web framework that looks a bit like web.py or Google's webapp, but with additional tools and optimizations to take advantage of the underlying non-blocking infrastructure.
my secret to happy relationship - michael
Web-Typography-Tool
Compiling MySQL on Snow Leopard
