A nice HOWTO on importing an existing Git repository into a fresh SVN repository, complete with history. The commit dates will be off, but you knew that anyway.

“At the Olympics, the blink of an eye can be all that separates the gold medalist from the 10th-place finisher. In some events, this is obvious. But in others, with athletes racing one by one, the closeness of the race is harder to perceive. Listen to the differences below.”

“Web designer Joshua Lane, currently best know for doing fancy web stuff at Virb.com, has overhauled his personal site in ways that are aesthetically pleasing and visually instructive.” I may want to copy this for my site redesign, whenever it happens.

PiCloud makes it easy to run long-running Python code in a distributed environment. Just pass your function to the cloud and it executes in a queue. Your Python job can make use of a large but limited selection of packages.

I really like how OkCupid shares their statistical data. In this report, they correlate ethnicity with reply rate. The conclusions? Women of African descent reply the most but get the least replies. White men get the most replies but reply the least. White women and those of Asian and Hispanic descent prefer white men. The … Read more