Read more about this infamous Python ad.

What are the essential developer tools? I’m going to play with this question a bit to see what would make an ideal developer toolkit. 1) editor 2) source control 3) compiler/make system 4) bug tracking 5) test framework What else?

Check out how this guy responds to his Ebay feedback.

Canada’s Top 10 BlogRolls.

This tip is totally worth taking 5 minutes to do. It will speed up the start time of your acrobat reader tremendously!

You have to go, right now, over to Exploding Dog and take a look at all the pictures drawn from suggested lines people have emailed in to the artist. Some of my favorites are: Don’t Eat That Banana and It’s Only a String but there are soooo many wonderful ones. I love the internet when I see stuff like this.

I am listening to Al Franken’s Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them and without taking sides it is laugh out loud funny. As a counterpoint I am listening to the infamous interview Terry Gross of NPR’s Fresh Air did with O’Reilly. You can listen to it here. I have never listened to O’Reilly’s show, and know of him only because he is mentioned so often in blogs and Harpers and in other media commentary. To read these interviews and Franken’s book you would think O’Reilly was a raving maniac. Yet, in the early part of Gross’s interview he sounds straight forward and reasonable. I’m still listening and waiting for the part where the interview spins out of control…. More here