Pádraig Kitterick

Interesting article about improving the experience of deaf website users in an informed way.

My favourite quote:
"We are not disabled and Deafness is not a disability; it’s the perception of many hearing (people) that we are disabled, and that is our disability."

Easy-to-use encryption library with Java and Python bindings

Extremely cheap online storage using Amazon’s S3 service.

Some advice from Guido about handling main() functions and input parameters.

Make a website by typing into a box. No, really - that’s it.

Some ideas on how to be productive in what would otherwise be dead time.

Module for creating parallel Python scripts using either SMP or on a cluster. Much simpler than getting an MPI setup working…

An excellent article discussing the common mistakes and pitfalls in the development, analysis, and interpretation of scientific experiments

A blog detailing a player’s expierences as he completes each title in the Zelda series

Get your free 128-bit integers in the handy and easy to read HEX notation. I prefer 13,256,278,887,989,457,651,018,865,901,401,704,640 myself.

Amazing photographs of landings at St. Maarten airport in the Netherlands Antilles.

Mick recently noticed his Macbook Pro wasn’t sitting flat, and soon discovered that the battery had expanded in size. Eek.

Wierd account of a three-day drug-fuelled party in Denver. I’m not sure what’s more distressing: that Class A (++) drugs are still gaining popularity among young ‘educated’ people, or that people feel so bored that they want to live this way.

…except that it’s called Jadarite. It doesn’t contain flourine, as in the Superman films, but other than that it’s apparently identical to Kryptonite.

Google have just added a Python section to the Google Calendar Developer Guide. For those interested in accessing the various Google APIs with Python, check out the Python client library.

Some incredible desktop background images. Well worth a visit.

Interesting way to raise public awareness about landmines.The police made sure the minimum amount of people got to see these and think about the point that was being made.

An interesting video of the history of the wikipedia page on the Virginia Tech shootings

20 lines of Python which suggests alternatives to spelling mistakes.

“An ambient weather widget that applies the current wind conditions to your Web site.” What?

Google for the energy conscious.

Simple and easy-to-use photoblog system with an active community providing many themes and addons.

Some useful examples of how to read position information from a GPS unit and display it in various ways on the Symbian platform.

Yet another JavaScript library for displaying images in an overlay on top of your website, but this time featuring support for flash animations, external images and websites, and PDF viewing.

An interesting tech demo from the Microsoft Labs, which analyses several images of the same object or place, and then reconstructs them in a 3D space based on the spatial relationships between the photos.