Need a challenge? Try typesetting Burmese

Some beautiful examples of the complexity of typesetting the world's languages.

Multimedia with Python book

Mark Guzdial, of Squeak fame, has announced a multimedia cookbook in Python . The textbook is for the course "Introduction to Media Computation" at Gatech. In December it will be published by Prentice-Hall "Introduction to Programming with Python: A multimedia Approach".
First three chapters are available online here.

E-Government site on xml.org

http://egovernment.xml.org/.

Sane XML

Simon St. Laurent gets some good stuff off his chest. What the world needs now is chicken soup.

A hot startup

Tim Bray talks about a room with multiple sources of heat. One is obvious but wait! Isn't that a Python book on the table? I can feel its warm glow from here!

I talk to myself but I'm not crazy, honest!

Its just that I find digital voice recording to be an increasingly interesting idea (ITWorld article.).

contretemps

An except from today spam:

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It has a certain exasperating, sad poetry to it don't you think?