If you’re choosing between Obama and Hillary, here is a compelling argument brought forward by someone who knows what he is doing. (transcript)

I couldn’t agree more. Go ahead, spread this! :)

Since I’ve received a number of calls for help with regard to my software packages, in particular MeshPy and PyLinear, I’ve decided to create a public forum for these requests for help. Here they are: the MeshPy forum and the PyLinear forum.

Here’s to years of useful …

Have a friend who does not believe CO₂ emissions are real and may be harmful? Show them this:

I’ve pushed out yet another version of TagPy. This time it is to mop up after some rather unhelpful default in TagLib. That is, unless you have the magic lines:

import tagpy.id3v2 as id3v2
id3v2.FrameFactory.instance().setDefaultTextEncoding(tagpy.StringType.UTF8)

in your code, the generic API tag …

1,662,780How Many Germs Live On Your Keyboard?

(xkcd is great.)

Complex analysis on YouTube:

Yup, too cool not to share. :)

In order to fix Debian bug #438556 (a crasher that made almost all of the ID3v2 infrastructure useless), I have just release version 0.92 of tagpy. Go get it while it’s hot.

Then go watch something sad and then laugh.