a convenient truth

• isolate - Project Hosting on Google Code
  This utility, isolate, runs processes in a chroot-ed environment, with constrained resource limits, as a random UID, and with limited access to the X server. An isolated program ("isolatee") no longer has all the authority of your user account, but you can still enjoy its legitimate functionality. You can play even maliciously-crafted songs in an unsafely implemented music player, with greatly minimized risk to your other data.
  (tags: security linux unix chroot)

• Doug Hellmann: Evaluating Tools for Developing with SOAP in Python
  (tags: python soap)

• Orderly JSON
  Readable JSON schema specification language, compiles to JSONSchema
  (tags: javascript programming rest webservices)

• The Grange Hotel, in York among top 100 in world (From York Press)
  (tags: hotel york)

• The Authoritarians
  Well written, amusing and fascinating research into authoritarians.
  (tags: politics science psychology)

Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

My eclectic score is currently 85/100

The 85 related artists for my profile are AFX, Afterlife, Aim, Akotcha, Amiina, Amorphous Androgynous, Aphex Twin (2), Arovane & Phonem, Augustus Clarke, Autechre (2), B12, Baby Mammoth, Balil (2), Beaumont Hannant, Biosphere & Deathprod, Black Dog Productions, Blue States, Boards of Canada, Bola (2), Bonobo, Boozoo Bajou (2), Brothomstates, Bullitnuts (2), Caribou, Caustic Window, Centry, Christ., Christian Kleine, Count Basic, Da Lata, Days, FFWD, Fireflies, Fridge, GAK, Geir Jenssen, Gescom, Heights of Abraham (2), Hunch, Indian Vibes, Joe Gibbs and the Professionals, Jónsi & Alex, Kenny Dope, Kid Loco, Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid, Kinobe, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Leftfield, Leggo Beast (2), Lemongrass, Manitoba, Mike & Rich, Paul Hartnoll, Peace Orchestra (2), Pete Namlook & Geir Jenssen, Phonem, Plaid (2), Polygon Window, Proem, Richard Devine, Sigur Rós & Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Solid Doctor (2), Squarepusher, Stars In Coma, Sun Electric, System 7, The 13th Sign, The Black Dog, The Charade, The Electric Pop Group, The Future Sound of London (2), The Higher Intelligence Agency, The Higher Intelligence Agency & Biosphere, The Orb, Thievery Corporation (2), Thunderball, Tosca (2), Tycho, Underworld, Yabby U Meets Sly And Robbie, Zion Blood, dZihan & Kamien (2), múm, µ-Ziq, Ólafur Arnalds

• celery - Distributed Task Queue — Celery v0.9.0 (unstable) documentation
  Distributed task queue based on AMQP and Python.
  (tags: python amqp rabbitmq qpid concurrency scalability performance django)

• Climate letter from 18 US Scientific unions
  The letter sent to senators by 18 US scientific unions affirming anthropogenic climate change.
  (tags: climate science)

• InfoQ: Metrics in an Agile World
  (tags: agile video)
• High-end Varnish-tuning « Kristian's web log
  Tuning varnish for insane throughput
  (tags: performance http web varnish)

• A Survey of Concurrency Constructs
  A very good survey of all the concurrency constructs, certainly includes all the ones I know about. Good summaries of their advantages and disadvantages.
  (tags: programming python erlang concurrency)