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2010-04-07 (Wednesday)

Links

  1. Montylounge’s django-mingus at master - GitHub

    Of all the Django weblog apps, I *think* this is supposed to be one of the best.

  2. Pinax

    I don’t know enough to know if this is good, but it sounds interesting - lots of basic tools to jump-start building your Django site.

  3. CandlePowerForums - Powered by vBulletin

    Wonderfully obsessive forum devoted to torches.

  4. Mr Brown Goes to the Palace « London Review Blog

    John Lanchester’s started posting daily about the general election (if you click his name, that page also has an RSS feed just for him).

Tweets

  • philgyford’s avatar

    Clapping at the telly. #debill

  • philgyford’s avatar

    I know #debill is a disaster overall, but @tom_watson, David Drew, Bill Cash etc have restored my faith in politicians. #glasshalffull

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @mattb Dr Who was fab wasn't it. I've often been sceptical but this was lots of fun.

  • philgyford’s avatar

    Is there a site that tells me which MPs are present for the Finance Bill? The Commons is nearly empty. This is an outrage! #debill #sarcasm

  • philgyford’s avatar

    Anyone know what the hashtag is for the Finance Bill? I'm guessing there's lots of outraged Twitter activity about that too? #debill

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @timd I look forward to Twittersphere being this involved next time there's something equally important (that's not about the net). #debill

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @adamamyl Exactly. They're all "But we're Twitter! You can't ignore us!" as if no one else has had an interest in a bill before.

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @matlock Er, yeah, I wasn't saying #debill *would* make people pay attention to other things. I just wish they would.

  • philgyford’s avatar

    I want: Every time someone moans about lack of #debill attendance, my computer to say "This is an outrage!" a la Tony Harrison /Mighty Boosh

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @matlock I bet most people tweeting about #debill are interested in more than #debill. So why only follow #debill at all closely?

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @D_Nye_Griffiths Isn't this attention dismissed as cranky precisely because it's unusual? If it was usual... better? or more easily ignored?

  • philgyford’s avatar

    If people (including me) paid this much attention to all of Parliament's proceedings, the country would be in better shape. #debill

  • philgyford’s avatar

    To all complaining about lack of MPs in the Commons for #debill. How does it compare to most bills? Is it actually very low? (I don't know.)

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @manarh Sorry to hear that. You should be able to have the their internet access cut off.

  • philgyford’s avatar

    @rooreynolds As @blech said, a mostly empty Commons isn't unusual. MPs have other things to do and other things are as important as #debill.