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Jan
5th
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RT @valcato: Ruby on Rails now available to all customers: http://tinyurl.com/933lcw
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Jan
2nd
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DVD (rented from lovefilm) has a 5 minute video from UNICEF at the beginning that you can’t skip. Charity or not, that’s annoying.
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Jan
1st
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New Year Dance-Off
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Astronomers all over planet Earth invite you to experience the night sky as part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009. This year was picked by the International Astronomical Union and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization because it occurs 400 years after Galileo turned one of the first telescopes toward the heavens.
— APOD: 2009 January 1 - Welcome to the International Year of Astronomy
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Dec
30th
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Does anyone know of a way to convert HTML to ascii-style formatting in Python? (Think reverse Markdown.)

Edited to add: Bruno recommended Pandoc, which seems perfect.

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Dec
29th
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Carrying Gunpowder through Airport Security
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Dec
27th
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AppleTM Pie (via wowkodos)
AppleTM Pie (via wowkodos)
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Dec
26th
Fri
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Mark Erelli “Volunteer” (via MyDamnChannel)

Got his album, “Delivered”, yesterday. This is probably my favourite song.

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Dec
23rd
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M65 Recoiless Nuclear Rifle

“… one nagging flaw … its maximum firing range of about three miles meant it couldn’t fire its payload beyond the radius of the resulting nuclear fallout.”

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Dec
21st
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British Scientist Warns We Must Protect The Vulnerable From Robots
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