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The ternary operator of C is one of my favorite operators, it may be hard to read at times, but oh so useful.

(a ? b : c)

In python you can do this in three ways, the third way is only available in python 2.5 and up. It is essentially a ternary operator and doesn’t require [...]

My favorite passwordless ssh tutorial went offline, so here is my rehash of it.
Your server names will, of course, vary. Localhost is the machine you are currently on and, in my case, northisup.com is the server I’m SSHing into.

localhost$ ssh-keygen -t dsa
localhost$ cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | \
ssh northisup.com 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys; \
chmod [...]

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 [...]

Over the past few months I have developed several patterns in the tools that I develop.
1) I like command line options.
2) I like to be able to run other command line programs and parse the output
Code after the break.

Head Tracking for Desktop VR Displays using the WiiRemote
Just think about how awesome games like Call of Duty, Time Crisis, Metroid, and Metal Gear Solid would be. Even those boring targets floating in the air were exciting to watch.

Obama is giving the science community something we’ve been desperately clawing at over the last eight years: an ear for the sciences. It will be amazing to see what the first pro-science administration can do in today’s ultra connected world. I mean come on, YouTube has been around, why has Bush done ANYTHING with it [...]

Today Jim DeMinit (R-S.C.) lambasted the new visitor center (yes, this guy has time in this economic crisis to comment on that state of the new visitor center on Capital Hill) as “Left-leaning”, and “portray[s] the federal government as the fulfillment of human ambition and the answer to all of society’s problems.” DeMint suggests “This [...]

“It’s so cool that FIJI is sponsoring an event like this. FIJI is my favorite water!”
-Kanye West

The global market for bottled water amounts to approximately $100 billion in sales annually and consists of an estimated 154 billion liters of fresh water. “The United States is the world’s leading consumer of bottled water, with Americans drinking [...]

As a modern (read: green) road warrior I find my electronics are often in need of some juice but I have no place to charge them. Enter the Power Monkey Explorer. The Power Monkey Explorer is a combination of two devices: a solar panel and a rechargeable battery.
 
The solar panel is about the size of an iPod [...]

Here is a video I found demonstrating MPX, the Multi-Pointer X Server. MPX is scheduled to be merged into the main X branch this month so soon we will all be having some multi-pointer fun. This will be a great boon for all the multi-touch home brewers out there.