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		<title>PASW  Statistics Data File Driver Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PASW is the old name for SPSS. The statistics program outputs a .sav file, what is essentially a file-based database. This guide contains instructions on how to use a driver to access data within the SPSS output file. The driver exposes an ODBC source for data access. It may be possible to use SqlAlchemy to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nick Brandt &#8211; A Shadow Falls (2005-2007)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Few photographers have ever considered the photography of wild animals (as distinctly opposed to the genre of Wildlife Photography) as an art form. The emphasis has generally been on capturing the drama of wild animals IN ACTION, on capturing that dramatic single moment as opposed to simply animals in the state of being.
I’ve always thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Almost an entire day wasted be&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost an entire day wasted because of a version number.
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		<title>Scaling python webapps from 0 to 50 million users &#8211; A top-down approach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LOLapps makes use of Paster, Tornado, SQLAlchemy and others to serve 50 million Facebook users a month. Here are their slides from their PyCon2010 talk on the methods they used to boost performance of their gaming servers.
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		<link>http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/scaling-python-webapps-from-0-to-50-million-users-a-top-down-approach.html</link>
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		<title>PyCon US videos for 2009 and 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Didn&#8217;t make it to PyCon? Watch some of the presentations here.
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		<link>http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/pycon-us-videos-for-2009-and-2010.html</link>
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		<title>Boosting MongoDB performance with Unix sockets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MongoDB lacks Unix domain socket support. Using a file socket rather than a TCP socket results in better performance. &#8220;Running the same benchmarks gives [a] time of 35.8s, vs 43.9s over TCP, and 28.9s with the RAM cache vs 31.1s on TCP.&#8221; Here&#8217;s a patch implementing domain sockets for MongoDB.
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		<link>http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/links/boosting-mongodb-performance-with-unix-sockets.html</link>
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		<title>This guy talks awfully matter-&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This guy talks awfully matter-of-fact about 3D modelling a scrotum using pics of chicken legs. RT @BoingBoing: http://bit.ly/d2BkpG
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		<title>Question for the JQuery gurus:&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Question for the JQuery gurus: How can I limit a block element&#8217;s click action to its non-clickable children? http://pastebin.com/UnKqaKxH
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		<title>We&#8217;re planning a Montreal trip&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re planning a Montreal trip for Easter weekend. Can anyone recommend a nice place to stay that&#8217;s walking distance from downtown?
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		<link>http://crazedmonkey.com/blog/tweets/were-planning-a-montreal-trip.html</link>
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		<title>RT @jaygoldman: Jon Stewart ta&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RT @jaygoldman: Jon Stewart takes a spin on Chat Roulette http://bit.ly/cNXQgt (In Canada: http://bit.ly/csAAZp)
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