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You are correct that CMU and Pitt are not on the same level, but you have your dirctionality flip. Pitt is in top 10 in research expenditures nationally[1], I don't think CMU is ev…

+1 for digital humanities folks. Your emphasis on well written documentation is a strong argument for agate over more powerful, but more confusing, data processing libraries. I'm a…

The SAXON XSLT processor implements basic XPATH 2.0 http://saxon.sourceforge.net/

Video games and programming languages ARE being studied in the humanities [1]. This is, in part, what the Digital Humanities doing, engaging with digital modes of cultural expressi…

It should be noted that the IPython Notebook is being developed to support multiple backends. People are working on backends for Haskell[1], Scala [2], and Julia[3]. I'd love to se…

The IPython Notebook is part of the IPython interactive computing environment[1]. You must to install IPython locally(or in the cloud) and run the notebook web server to load and e…

asciidoc support would require an ansciidoc renderer written in javascript, which does seem to exist[1](although I haven't used it). This also highlights some of the problems with …

I haven't started meaningfully playing with nbconvert yet, but I think one of the really promising features are the nbconvert templates[1]. From what I gather you can make custom t…

YES! I would also love to see a publishing workflow that could render IPython Notebooks for print on dead trees.

I see this degree as a huge boon for folks in the technology sector who are already working, but want to pick up a masters degree (for professional development or promotion). This …

"My experience has been that Community Colleges already do a lot of what he's suggesting" That was my thought exactly. The CC system is quite good at educating people, yet, I feel …

A friend of a friend is looking for copy editors who know how to use git. I am having trouble finding one...is there anybody out there?

ugh. I'm still using (and loving) my nexus one but app bloat and the small about of disk space is increasingly making it impossible to use.

You should include a link or more description about Elsevier's awful publishing practices for those who aren't already in the know.

I guess the dream of a fully EPUB 3 standards compliant authoring tool was too good to be true. The devil is in the CSS.

Funny, I remember meeting these guys at an RSA conference years ago, must have been in 2004, and thinking "this is the only innovative thing I've seen here." It was pretty cool tec…

I would have gone too, but I decided to get married this weekend instead.

now that the spec has been released and (somewhat) settled, I wonder if Kobo will support epub3.

excellent. Maybe now there well be an elegant way to go from .markdown to .docx

I'd like to share my SCSI joke, but I already told it 7 times.

I struggled reading past the "Netflix is a better librarian" comment. Netflix is not a librarian, it is a library-like PLACE. Netflix probably hires librarians or information profe…

When dealing with failed replicability it is important not to conflate a poorly designed experiment with a poorly written methods section. Often there is tacit or socially negotiat…

These would be amazing to build with a 3D printer. If I had the time I'd try building one by hand using legos.