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So I was hacking away at a turbogears project and thought ‘how cool would it be to visualize this?’ That thought lead to a short example of how to get the graphing visualization from google finance into your app. I used cherrypy to do the web serving for the example. Code after the break (sorry [...]

It is very easy to loose context of what is going on in your debug output. I like the following: NSLog(@”%@ received %@”, self, NSStringFromSelector(_cmd));

The correlation with education is there, and half of young people say that evolution is true. The most significant correlative factor: religion. Gallup: On the eve of the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, a new Gallup Poll shows that only 39% of Americans say they “believe in the theory of evolution,” while a quarter [...]

From Think Progress: Asked by TNR to offer some advice to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, former Press Secretary Scott McClellan makes the provocative suggestion that the whole briefing ritual is passe: My view is that the press-briefing model that is used now is kind of outdated. It ought to be more along the [...]

Barney Frank and Marsha Blackburn square off on Larry King Live over the stimulus bill. A few things that struck me about this interview. One, look at the body language with these two…lol. They both look like they don’t want to even be on the same planet with each other, much less forced to sit [...]

I worked on the Obama campaign, have been to many rallies and even helped staff some of them. But it wasn’t until you got about 2000 of us together in a room that the energy reached a level I had not seen during the campaign. In Obama’s closing remarks of the inaugural festivities he thanks [...]

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! I was thinking about starting a separate blog where i take a snapshot of foxnews.com every day, and highlighted the obvious conservative slanted issue stories on the front page, just to see a different aspect of the fox news institutional right wing bias. I would specifically look at stories that are [...]

The health care discussion in 2009 will focus around three primary terms which are easily confused and often interchanged, even though they have very different meanings. With health care on the top of Obama’s agenda understanding of this critical issue has never been more important. Universal health care is health care coverage that is extended [...]