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I’ll have some bloggy goodness for this blog later on this evening, as

it’s a busy day at work. In the meantime, may I suggest to my geekier

readers that they check out today’s entries on The Farm, the blog I’m paid to write?

Greetings to all from Harvard!

I’m currently sitting in the front row of Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School, where the opening session of BloggerCon 2 is taking place as I write this. I’ll post updates throughout the day, as the place is soaking in WiFi and interesting people.

In order to make The

Farm: The Tucows Developers’ Hangout (the blog which I actually get paid to write) more

useful to its audience, I’m planning to set up an area where you can

download programming books and other documentation that can be freely

distributed. Books that will be available here soon include Mark Pilgrim’s excellent

Dive Into Python, and the How to Think Like a Computer

Scientist series (which cover Java, Python, Logo

and C++), all of which are licensed under the GNU FDL (the Free Documentation

License).

If you know of similar books that have similar distribution licenses,

drop me a line or

leave a comment and let me know what they are!

[ via #infoanarchy

] This is just too amusing: here’s a page that displays the images most

recently posted to LiveJournal. Some pictures may not be safe for work. 10% pouty goth pictures, ga-rohn-teed!

I hit the site every now and again while working on the Blogware

manuals last night. For some reason, this picture spoke to me more than

all the others:

Clearly, cow udders are poor tools for determining the location of the nearest IKEA.

Someone’s registered whitneymcnally.com and built a site in the hopes of pulling a “Santorum” [not safe for work!] on Ms. McNally, author of the Gay or Asian? article mentioned in the previous entry.

[ via Derek Kirk Kim’s Lowbright.com ] I would eat at such an establishment all the time!

(In case you don’t get the joke, perhaps this will help…)

By the way, if you’re not familiar with Derek Kirk Kim’s comics, take a look at Same Difference,  My Sistine Chapel, the possibly autobiographical The Ten Commandments of Simon [adult situations depicted], Shaved Asians and the fairly twisted and fairly new Black Harvest. Derek could be the Asian comic artist answer to Woody Allen.

…and will have more to blog later tonight. In the meantime, may I direct your attention to…

• The Farm (Tucows’ blog just for developers), which has a number of good articles today.
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Mythical Memory Videotape: an article on the geek site kuro5hin that explores some of the ideas from the new movie. I saw it this past weekend with The Redhead, and we both enjoyed it.
• The story of Jummy Dean, not just an accordion player — I hear he made sausages too.