And so it begins (South Beach Triathlon)

Calepin reads Markdown-formatted, plain-text files stored in your Dropbox and converts them into blog posts for you.

Charles Leadbeater via @guardian

Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool

Fabric is a Python (2.5 or higher) library and command-line tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2

A Comparison Of Two Static Site Generators @ PhilipMat

Xen VPS Hosting

Git hosting, Mercurial hosting & Subversion hosting with complete project management - tickets, milestones.

Groundswell, a documentary on the threat to the BC coast if the Northern Gateway tar sands oil pipeline is constructed

[Tutorial] - DesignModo

rss python aggregator

John Battelle: we must fight for the open web ” via @davewiner

Episode 165 Software Engineering Radio podcast
about the emerging NoSQL movement, the three types of non-relational data stores, Brewer's CAP theorem, the weaker consistency guarantees that can be made in a distributed database, document-oriented data stores, the data storage needs of modern web applications, and the open source MongoDB

PyInstaller is a program that converts (packages) Python programs into stand-alone executables, under Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Its main advantages over similar tools are that PyInstaller works with any version of Python since 2.2, it builds smaller executables thanks to transparent compression, it is fully multi-platform, and use the OS support to load the dynamic libraries, thus ensuring full compatibility.

19.7. xml.dom.minidom — Lightweight DOM implementation — Python v2.7.2 documentation

Environmental Consulting Firm | Water Resource Management|

it is human activity — the constraining of the delta with levees, the petrochemical industry’s fragmentation of coastal landscapes, and the inappropriate location of urban development — that has accelerated the loss of protective wetlands and barrier islands and created the catastrophic situation we face today.

Our delta-wide proposal encompasses five diversions operating at the endpoints of the five historic basins of the delta, with each diversion designed as a hybrid between soft and hard infrastructure, strategically placed with regard to ecological, economic and settlement patterns. Our goal is to make the river once again flexible and powerful, with the resulting land-river dynamics working in harmony with existing and future delta communities.

we propose restoring the Central Wetlands Unit — the 30,000 acres of cypress forest that once protected the Lower Ninth from hurricanes

The neighborhood as we know it will have to evolve — to become better integrated with natural systems and flexible to changing water levels.

After FB and Twitter, people often ask "What's the next big thing?" I used to say "I don't know." Now I say "Github."

US Pavilion for 2012 Venice Biennial, Spontaneous Interventions: design actions for the common good, call for projects-

David Lynch on Where Ideas Comes From

If corporations are people, Romney is 'Mitt the Ripper' by Colbert super-PAC, Americans for a Better Tomorrow, Tomorrow

#sopa is jut the beginning - Doctrow: "The coming war on general-purpose computing"

A wrinkle in time, or temporal cloaking

Of course I hear this on twitter (and not in the office)... RT @estimmel: SOM will open LA studio next month.

RT @openculture: Stephen Hawking turns 70 today! Watch Errol Morris' Hawking documentary "A Brief History of Time"

Excellent summary on 2011 reporting of the Mississippi River Delta and Gulf Coast from the Environmenal Defense Fund:

ACADIA '12, Synthetic Digital Ecologies open for submission of papers, work-in-progress, and projects, due April 10th -