and then give us even more advertising junk:
"For the European Commission, improved control by the end consumer means that we need fewer legal regulations," emphasized media commissioner Viviane Reding. "Therefore, the core of our proposal for a new, modernized TV directive is a fundamental deregulation of audiovisual rules."
For the population, improved control of the elected officials through strong blows with sticks and kicks to the soft parts means that we get fewer brainless legislative proposals. Therefore, the core of my proposal for a more efficient design of European politics is the introduction of corporal punishment for members of the European Commission.
Hacking the jProject - The Daily WTF - ouch. An order system where each order is stored in its own table in the SQL Server. Great idea.
How-To Guide for Descriptors - a very good explanation of how properties work in Python and what the magic methods get, set, and del are all about (and how getattribute plays into this).
Jacobian.org : Django performance tips - Jacob, one of the Django Core-Devs, writes about performance tuning for Django applications. Strongly aligns with my experiences.
What would actually happen if the GNOME developers went to the Linux Kernel Mainling list and announced that they recommend users to use FreeBSD because the chroot model of Linux is pathetic, and the kernel APIs are a mess anyway, and Linux still doesn't have really good filesystem notifications, and the development of Linux simply doesn't take GUI requirements into account enough. Therefore, they would suggest users to use FreeBSD, because the Linux kernel programmers are all idiots anyway.
What would Linus' reaction look like?
pgpool page - interesting connection proxy for PostgreSQL with connection pooling and database failover.