Python is a great language for writing scripts that can be easily ran on servers or for writing web and desktop apps.  This book helps guide you through the syntax and coding style that make up a python app.  It’s definitely one of the more flexible and easy to use modern languages.

One more day left in the O’Reilly blogger review program.  This time I have been looking at The Art of Community by Jono Bacon.

Overall it’s a great book for a foundation in community building and growing social websites.  It’s filled with lots of good advice and common sense.  My main complaint is I wish there were more stories.  You can’t always expect the author to be authoritative on every topic, as a reader you want more anecdotes and support for why you should take the authors advice.  It may not be a good fit for seasoned community managers, but it’s a great volume for programmers, project managers and young community managers.  It’s well worth a read.

I just recently took this video for a spin and posted my review on the O’Reilly site, Native Video in HTML5

Overall I gave it 4 stars.  Check out the review:

A tasty treat found by This is Why You’re Fat.  It’s cone made of bacon filled with scrambled eggs and gravy with a biscuit on top.  Yum, More bacon to put pounds on you.

I’m trying to find out where Gael Garcia get’s his clothes.  He has exquisite taste!  Please let me know who his tailor is.

It’s an ad for a new kind of gum, but it’s pretty cool looking.  They have a flash website that goes through the back story a bit then has a simple live action game (like a luchador Dragon’s Lair).  The site is slow, but worth the wait, http://www.chlorophyllo.fr/en/index.html

What happens when you mix greasy bacon with a Russian AK-47, the BA-K-47.

This powerful beast can kill a man with clogged arteries in 10 minutes.  The whole story is here, http://www.thisisfreakingridiculous.com/tifr/2009/4/13/ba-k-47.html

The animated bacon man sings of the horrors of bacon. He just doesn’t know the beauty of the other white meat fried in it’s own grease.

This came out in a Japan last year, but I just ran across it this week. It’s called the Luminodot by Bandai. It’s like an HD lightbright.  It has twice the resolution and much brighter than the original.  I wonder when kids in the US will get to play with this pixelated beast.

This is the hot new thing for all you women who want to draw more attention to yourselves. A DIY project to make a musical bra. Your chest will sing!

I was on facebook today and saw a get money now ad.  Out of curiosity I clicked on it.  It brought me to some get rich quick scheme which was pretty entertaining.  The best part was seeing this pic of him with his Ferrari and then the text underneath it.

Muzak filed for bankruptcy a couple of days ago. The company started in 1934 and filled elevators with, well, elevator music for 75 years. Now they are drowning in debt and going bankrupt. I can’t say they will be missed but it is sad to see them go in some wierd twisted way.

This Times article is great, some very clever ghetto representations of life in the city using Legos.

http://niemann.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/02/i-lego-ny/?em

Thanks for link Bedirhan(solo)

I was watching party girl earlier and was cracking up when this scene came on. What the hell did Teddy do to the bar owner? What ever it was, it couldn’t have been good!

This is quite possibly the most amazing bacon dish I have ever seen. This is the state of it before it cooked. You have to have to see the original post to get a sense of the bacon goodness. This post is a bit off topic, but this blog isn’t exactly focused 😉

It’s time for change. Go’Bama!

This is pretty cool, you shake the machine and a random number comes out…like real dice. Best thing is it doesn’t use batteries!

The original post is here, it’s from the instructables site…it’s nerdy, but a dope site!

Welcome to 2008, here’s a little video to celebrate. Some lo-fi latin flavored stuff

Allthough the use and popularity of vinyl is holding, the underlying infrastructure for pressing and distributing it is dying. Vinyl pressing quality varies greatly these days and the know how of running vinyl production machines is diminishing, not to mention good mastering services for vinyl aren’t always easy to find. Bottom line, more vinyl distributors are filing for bankruptcy. This is a deadly blow to vinyl, especially dance music vinyl.

This is a wierd video I ran across on youtube…Talk about some old school Fraternity Hijinx. Southern charm mixed with some deuche = volital mix. I think the obnoxious comments on the youtube page are just as entertaining as the video!

Hot Chicks with Duchebags

This is one of the funnier blogs I’ve come across in a while. It pretty much is exactly what the title describes, it features hot girls with cheesball dudes. If you want to know what it is like to live in New Jersey, check out this site. I can’t give Jersey too much shit though, because the Deuche epidemic is all over, it knows no boundaries.

Oscar the grouch!, originally uploaded by jarroyo.

Someone came as oscar the grouch…what a rockstar! He was runner up to the big chief. Maybe the crowd was just being PC.

Courtney and the big cheif, originally uploaded by jarroyo.

Courtney and the big chief, he won the costume contest.

I just created my blog today… I will be posting my work and random links to other work on the web. Stay tuned!