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Everything you ever wanted to know about re-raising exceptions in Python. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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How to slice a bagel into two linked halves. Because you've always wanted to know. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

To sum up: the music industry treats its artists like it treats its customers: like shit. This is why I don't feel even a little twinge of remorse for pirating music. The sooner these asshat scumbags go out of business the better. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

This is a good analysis of different Rails stacks, but it's an even better case study in how to prepare and present meaningful benchmarks. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Mark totally nails it (as usual): this perfectly sums up the positive and negative aspects of Django's coupled design. I really couldn't have said it better myself. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Very simple local file sharing: `woof filename` servers the file over HTTP once, then terminates. It's a single script that can live in ~/bin. Coolness. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Almost certainly how I'll be doing my turkey this year. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Very simple, plain-English "getting started with GPG" guide. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Really awesome Google Calendar-style interactive calendar rendered with jQuery. Drag & drop events, callbacks for everything, awesome. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Whoa, these guys are awesome! - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Download photos from Flickr directly into Keynote. This is going to save me mad time. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

A good explanation of setting up simple IP failover with Heartbeat and HAproxy. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Amazing infographics of MLB baseball data. Really beautiful, funny, counter-intuitive stuff here. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

I didn't realize that Evernote had an API. I might need to investigate switching my document management tool... - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Heat maps, point clustering, etc. Built on top of Raphael. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

33 different ways to lace shoes. Goddamn but I love the Internet. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Sean's report on the networking at PyCon 2009 is a great read -- funny, and packed full of information. I've constantly amazed at the quality of the wifi at PyCon -- conferences half PyCon's size usually make the network buckle. Folks running large conferences seem to have two choices when it comes to wifi: have it fail, or hire tummy.com. Simple. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

A full-screen console (curses) debugger for Python. Looks like a nice middle-ground between pdb/ipdb and a GUI debugger. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

D&D on a Big Ass Table. Might be the geekiest -- and awesomest -- thing I've seen. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Barnes & Noble's new reader looks pretty slick. Supports PDFs, and runs Android for added geek points. Watch out Amazon; this looks great. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

This is why your open source project needs to defend its trademark. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Some tips on tuning Varnish - up to 27k req/s on a single 2.2GHz Opteron! - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Nice high-level comparison of the various PostgreSQL replication, clustering, load balancing, and connection pooling solutions. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Typeflow analysis for Python. Looks pretty cool; don't know how well it'll work on larger projects. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

This. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Swiss Army knife of markup formats. I'm bookmarking this specifically because it can convert HTML into reST, which I've not seen before. That means it'll be incredibly useful for converting old docs into Sphinx. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Open source utility to convert ttf fonts to eot. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Wow. Looks amazing. - Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Holy crap - OCR via an API. I've been waiting a long time for an API like this! - Jacob Kaplan-Moss