Last weekend, Andrea and I took Angus to have his picture taken with Santa at The Dog Spot. It was a fund-raising event for the Washington Humane Society. There's a black & white version, too.
A collection of independent, reusable Django apps: Basic Blog, Basic Places, Basic People, Basic Library, and Basic Profiles.
( via Reddit )
My paper copy arrived last Monday and I enjoyed reading it. I much prefer reading a physical book, but it's great to have it available online, too.
How to inherit behavior for model classes, not the models themselves. I'd just been playing with doing this a couple weeks ago, for the exact same reason: to override Model.delete to hide an entity, not delete it.
Flot, a newly announced plotting toolkit for use with jQuery. On a completely superficial level, the examples are nice looking!
( via Ajaxian )
"An in-depth Exploration of the PostgreSQL Open Source Database."
( via Planet PostgreSQL )
A nice demonstration of Stretch and Fold, including videos. I made Sourdough Ciabatta rolls last Sunday (recipe forthcoming). I did one strech and fold, for good measure, but did the majority of the mixing in my KitchenAid.
Examples of using Google Chart API, which looks super slick!
Translate text into Cockney, Yorkshire, Ali G, and even "Jolly Well Spoken" dialects (and more).