The lzip project is a pretty decent April Fool’s Joke.
Programming Parrot in a Nutshell is an exciting new book by Guido van Rossum and Larry Wall that O’Reilly happened to announce yesterday.
I had a great idea for an April Fool’s joke for this site, but the fact that April Fool’s Day fell on a Sunday this year killed my interest in implementing it. Fortunately the idea is evergreen, so maybe you’ll see it next year.
eBay has revised its user agreement. I like they way they handled it. They sent me an email indicating that the agreement is changing, and provided links to a FAQ describing what has changed. I appreciated the heads up.
Check it out, it’s my site with interesting stuff in place of my usual banal remarks.
Version 1.0 of the Velocity template engine is out. I really need to start using this on some projects at work in place of some horribly crufty JSPs that I (and others) wrote.
From Suck, a bit of perspective on the ongoing war between the moronic David Horowitz and college newspapers.
The review of Mac OS X that I’ve been waiting for has finally been published. John Siracusa reviews Mac OS X for Ars Technica.