http://travelogue.betacantrips.com And all I got was this lousy weblog Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:40:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seen on 8bit today: some art by the art collective known as "Delaware". http://travelogue.betacantrips.com/2010/03/03/by-delaware/ Seen on Planet Debian: 'Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?' The solution starts: #!/bin/sh cp_p() { strace -q -ewrite cp -- "${1}" "${2}" 2>&1 \ ... The author notes in the comments: If you feel the need to point out an alternative solution, then you ... http://travelogue.betacantrips.com/2010/03/03/damn-right-you-can/ OK, this is completely wonderful -- exactly a thing I would have wanted to make, except somebody else made it for me, better. Keep this in mind in case anyone ever tells you the old yarn about how JavaScript is only a terrible language because of browser inconsistencies.. An example: ... http://travelogue.betacantrips.com/2010/03/02/wtfjs/ Seen on Tor.com: an interesting article about a Tim Burton exhibit. When I went to the Tim Burton exhibit at the MoMA in NYC a couple of weeks ago, it was understandably mobbed. We visitors rotated along the walls in a tightly-packed horde, gaping and pointing. For the most ... http://travelogue.betacantrips.com/2010/03/02/imagine-not/ Seen via Planet Debian: this fascinating quote from a Pennsylvania court in 1853. Before publication [the author] has the exclusive possession of his invention. His dominion is perfect. But when he has published his book and given his thoughts, sentiments, knowledge or discoveries to the world, he can have ... http://travelogue.betacantrips.com/2010/03/01/hard-to-imagine-but-it-is-our-history/ Seen via True Chip Till Death: asciimeo is awesome. Like Vimeo, only.. ascii. No embed URLs. Instead, check this video. http://travelogue.betacantrips.com/2010/03/01/asciimeo/ Seen via True Chip Till Death: poster for the upcoming 8 Bit Alliance tour! First show is this Friday. I'm super excited! http://travelogue.betacantrips.com/2010/03/01/8-bit-alliance-2010-tour/ At PyCon, I saw a lightning talk about scrape.py, a lightweight Python library for parsing webpages/interacting with them programmatically. For example, finding page elements: >>> from scrape import * >>> s.go('http://zesty.ca/') <Region 0:17780> >>> d = s.doc >>> t = d.first('title') >>> t <Region 247:258 title> >>> t.tagname 'title' >>> t.text u'Ka-Ping Yee' The presentation I saw focused ... http://travelogue.betacantrips.com/2010/02/27/scrape-py/ One of the neat things I saw at PyCon was a project called OpenHatch, which (among other features) indexes bugs and makes them easy to find according to your skillset and experience level. For example, lots of projects tag bugs as "easy" or "beginner" to promote newbie involvement and ramp-up; ... http://travelogue.betacantrips.com/2010/02/27/openhatch-the-open-source-involvement-engine/ Seen via JWZ: a fascinating story about a dwarf. This is one of those things where I'm struck at how weird the world we live in is. http://travelogue.betacantrips.com/2010/02/27/historical-dwarf-pie/