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Obama Pens Excuse Note for 4th Grader Playing Hooky, "She’s with me" - Political Punch
"To Kennedy’s teacher - Please excuse Kennedy’s absence. She’s with me. (signed) Barack Obama." Best excuse note ever.
PLoS Computational Biology: Hypergraphs and Cellular Networks
An article that defines directed and undirected hypergraphs and explains their expressiveness, as well as the challenges of using them to represent biological networks.
Force-Directed Edge Bundling for Graph Visualization - information aesthetics
[Found via Euan Adie] "Graphs depicted as node-link diagrams are widely used to show relationships between entities. However, node-link diagrams comprised of a large number of nodes and edges often suffer from visual clutter. The use of edge bundling reme
bpython interpreter
A Python interactive interpreter that supports syntax hilighting, posting to pastebins, and other nifty features.
Default Parameter Values in Python
"Python’s handling of default parameter values is one of a few things that tends to trip up most new Python programmers (but usually only once)." I wish I had read this earlier.
Vim-R-plugin2 - Plugin to work with R : vim online
"The filetype plugin is based on Johannes Ranke's plugin (vimscript #1048), and it does not work on Microsoft Windows. The new functions are similar to what you can find in ess mode of emacs.
MAIN FEATURES:
Communication with R.
Omni completion fo
50 Great Examples of Data Visualization | Webdesigner Depot
[Found via William Gunn]
Calc2LaTeX - Macro for converting OpenOffice.org Calc spreadsheets into LaTeX tables | OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions
New page for this handy tool that converts OOo tables to LaTeX formatted tables.
Linux equivalent of the Mac OS X "open" command - Stack Overflow
A: Yes. gnome-open, kde-open, and xdg-open. SO FTW!
BT Tracker
Track the Blacksburg Transit buses in quasi-realtime. Produced by the CS 4704 students. Neato. I guess there's some iPhone interface available, too, since the description says they used the iPhone SDK.
How to find an entry-level job after you already have a graduate degree? - Stack Overflow
"Initially, I was naive, I thought that with my background, I could always find a coding job. Big mistake."
RetailMeNot :: Firefox Add-ons
[Found via Ben Hilburn] From the creators of BugMeNot: "Never miss a bargain again. Automatically informs you of sites that retailmenot.com users have shared discount coupon codes for."
Robert Full on animal movement | Video on TED.com
Full presents fascinating biomechanics beautifully captured in slow-motion, then used as inspiration for robotics designs. Ever seen a bipedal octopus? Do you know how geckos un-stick their feet from a surface? A must watch!
indent/python.vim - An alternative indentation script for python : vim online
Recommended by jamessan, this script supposedly improves performance of Vim's indentation for Python.
inkpot - Inkpot, a dark scheme for GUI and 88/256 colour terms : vim online
Supposedly the "sexiest color scheme ever". It's pretty nice. The background highlighting for strings might not fit your fancy.
PythonTidy
This script works great for cleaning up poorly formatted Python code. Nice little time saver.
PythonTidy
This script works great for cleaning up poorly formatted Python code. Nice little time saver.
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