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http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2006/mar/29/scripps/ apparently several newspapers run off a Django install, including the newspaper that employed the web developers who wrote …

Thanks for posting this. I will definitely add this to my ever-expanding lit review for my thesis on SQL Injection Attacks/Web App Development Frameworks

"The Ninjas are deadly and silent They're also unspeakably violent They speak Japanese, they do whatever they please And sometimes they vacation in Ireland" -Bare Naked Ladies http…

On "eugenics" - what if the most significant factor in differences in intelligence is social rather than genetic? What if intensive parenting practices like near-constant eye conta…

scenarios like this make me want to be a fifth-grade math teacher. maybe I could do a better job than this person's did.

I suspect those plans don't exist because the premiums would have to be so high to make it profitable that it would make more sense financially for most self-employed couples to ha…

actually I think a profit-based insurance model is the problem. you cannot take care of shareholders and patients at the same time. but since you have a profit-based model, excludi…

it's impossible to buy non-group health insurance for a planned pregnancy. and there's enough scary stuff that COULD happen that you wouldn't want to be pregnant without. Old peopl…

Safari books online or Books 24 x 7. I may never buy a paper copy of a technical book again.

deify is the word. but we get what you mean.

There's an arugment in favor of elite brand-name degrees, presumeably over state universities, or vocational degrees: "The research of Till Von Wachter, the economist at Columbia U…

If I were 16 now I'd spend the extra time on Open Courseware and go to college only when I had done enough exploring on my own to really take advantage of the profs' expertise.

a garbageman, especially if he works for the city, will have a better chance at all that than an artist of most varieties with an ivy league PhD