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After a friend suggested, constantly, that I start creating a lump sum week in review email I did just that. I set up a tiny letter news letter for anyone who is interested.

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Fun github projects:

  • https://github.com/amoffat/pbs - PBS is a unique subprocess wrapper that maps your system programs to Python functions dynamically. PBS helps you write shell scripts in Python by giving you the good features of Bash (easy command calling, easy piping) with all the power and flexibility of Python.
  • https://github.com/marstall/shim/ - Shim looks like a great testing tool. It allows you to control multiple browser from one place. That way you could have a couple phones, and a couple browsers all navigate to the same website, at the same time.
  • https://github.com/phusion/juvia - juvia is an open source replacement for something like disqus
  • http://natrixnatrix89.github.com/promptu-menu/ - This project did a great job at creating a scroll experience nearly like scrolling an iPhone home screen.
  • maui-indexer - Maui automatically identifies main topics in text documents. Depending on the task, topics are tags, keywords, keyphrases, vocabulary terms, descriptors, index terms or titles of Wikipedia articles.
  • Twitter sentiment analysis using Python and NLTK - This post describes the implementation of sentiment analysis of tweets using Python and the natural language toolkit NLTK. The post also describes the internals of NLTK related to this implementation.

In other news

Good SciFi Books

io9, a sci-fi cover blog from the gawker network, had a good list recently. The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life. If you are trying to find something new to read this is a great place to start. See also The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit). I personally found Hyperion, and The Forever War from this list.

Who is @meganamram.

If you have ever seen her super offensive/funny tweets you might have wondered if this was a real person. She is, and she did an interview with splitsider

Lana Del Rey has an album coming out on the 30th.

She has been a super hyped up and coming artist(See her latest song Video Games). She was on last weeks saturday night live, and some thing she bombed. Including Brian Williams, yea the Brian Williams from NBC. The whole reason why this is fun is that a blog called Hipster Runoff has been going to town with this whole thing. Basically letting the Del Rey story control the entire tone of the blog.

I have a blog called HIPSTER RUNOFF. Every day, I wake up, open my laptop, and type words that are stored in the internet as ‘content.’ My goal is to ‘get as many hits’ as possible because I metaphorically ‘have mouths to feed.’ I realize that at this point, it doesn’t matter if my content is ‘premium’, pseudo-brilliantly written web_prose or just ‘link-bait-wave,’ I was fortunate enough to not have gotten lost in the ‘long tail’ of indie music + Gen-Y-opinion-driven coverage blogs. Every day, I prey upon different buzz topics, exploiting my voice, but more importantly, my position as a ‘recognized outlet 4 buzz’ to try to trick people into thinking I am ‘relevant’, which basically just means that I am trying to make ppl talk abt my blog and get them addicted to my web brand even if they hate it because even when they are like ‘OMG THAT’S TOTAL BULLSHIT’ it is just some sort of post-grassroots-h8-wave-warketing. (source)

Anyway it you like blogs, and meta-blogs, and blogs that are commentary on blogs this is fun developing story.

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