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…that get me those iffy Amazon recommendations.  But still, who wouldn’t want to search for girl scout cookies on Amazon?

• Compact Fluorescent Bulbs Draw Quality Complaints – NYTimes.com
  40 to 50 components per bulb? No wonder they are having quality issues.
  (tags: eco electricity light lightbulbs)

• ThinkGeek :: T-Shirts & Apparel :: Unisex Shirts
  (tags: tshirts)
• The Pressure Sounds Website | Pressure Sounds Releases
  (tags: tshirts)
• Welcome to Glennz
  (tags: tshirts)

• Faster MemcachedManager — Jarn · Plone Solutions
  Move Zope memory caching to memcached
  (tags: coding reference python zope plone performance cache)

• Selector!
  Reggae tshirts. Let hands and heart be pure and clean.
  (tags: tshirts)
• folia | Organise, track & share your gardening adventures!
  I've been mulling over a community gardening website for a long time. Is this the one that stops me thinking I need to build my own?
  (tags: gardening web social)

The global tobacco industry is responsible for 1.7% of each year’s deforestation. If all 5.5 trillion cigarettes produced each year were smoked they would produce the same emmissions as half the vehicles on the road in the US. 40% of beach litter is cigarette butts.

Not only choking our lungs, but choking the lungs of the planet too, apparently. Blimey.

• assertTrue( ): Developers should not be allowed to work overtime
  Something we adhere to very strongly at Isotoma
  (tags: work practice planning)

• The Oil Drum | World Oil Production Peaked in 2008
  Sometimes you just want to stick your head in the sand about things like this. In 1992 they said that peak oil would be in 2007, and lo, in 2009 we're saying that it was in 2008. Depressing.
  (tags: eco oil peakoil)
• Iotop's homepage
  iotop – a top like interface to I/O utilisation
  (tags: analysis operations linux python performance diagnosis)

I’ve watched the video and read the article a couple of times, and I can’t see how it actually delivers drive to the rear wheel. Anyone?

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJPTSaARlvs]

Hubless motorcycle.

• Load spikes and excessive memory usage in mod_python
  Analysis of the age old "why is mod_python so slow and why does it peg my CPU" questions. Not wholly surprising result. If you really know what you're doing Apache with mod_python and without PHP on a dedicated platform is optimal, but in 99.9% of cases you should go mod_wsgi.
  (tags: django performance python deployment apache scaling wsgi)
• Torrent Info ‎(Home of the (UNOFFICIAL) SXSW 2009 Torrent)‎
  over 1200 songs (DRM free and perfectly legit) from the 2009 SxSW festival, wrapped up in 3 torrents. Also links to torrents from 2005 onwards.
  (tags: music mp3 bittorrent sxsw 2009)
• Balsamiq Mockups
  Adobe AIR app that makes deliberately hand drawn mockups. Costs money, but worth a look as an alternative to easyprototype?
  (tags: tools design interface prototype air ux)