2010-04-07 (Wednesday)
Links
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Montylounge’s django-mingus at master - GitHub
Of all the Django weblog apps, I *think* this is supposed to be one of the best.
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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.
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CandlePowerForums - Powered by vBulletin
Wonderfully obsessive forum devoted to torches.
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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).
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Clapping at the telly. #debill
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I know #debill is a disaster overall, but @tom_watson, David Drew, Bill Cash etc have restored my faith in politicians. #glasshalffull
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@mattb Dr Who was fab wasn't it. I've often been sceptical but this was lots of fun.
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Anyone know what the hashtag is for the Finance Bill? I'm guessing there's lots of outraged Twitter activity about that too? #debill
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@timd I look forward to Twittersphere being this involved next time there's something equally important (that's not about the net). #debill
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@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.
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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
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@D_Nye_Griffiths Isn't this attention dismissed as cranky precisely because it's unusual? If it was usual... better? or more easily ignored?
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If people (including me) paid this much attention to all of Parliament's proceedings, the country would be in better shape. #debill
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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.)
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@manarh Sorry to hear that. You should be able to have the their internet access cut off.
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@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.