Links published on July 20, 2006

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Johnny Depp and the dead man’s chest called Hollywood

I wonder if it isn’t time for Hollywood to get chunkier. Maybe the real opportunities lie in the middle ground. A chunky approach to marketing says go for the sweet spot, the place with money enough to hire real talent, and enough freedom to set them free. (Freeish.) There has to be a habitable space between the deeply eccentric, entirely self indulgent freedoms of the indie and the “fear of falling” rigidities that understandably beset the studio when spending $160 million.

Like, say, a “big belly”?

Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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Want a New Pony?

Tim’s not quite right about Python programmers; in reality, it’d break down like this:

49% would recommend submitting a PEP for a Python Pony Protocol, which would take approximately five and a half years to be reviewed, commented on, implemented as a proof of concept, reviewed again, commented on some more and finally buried in peat moss.
50% would point out that Python already provides the necessary infrastructure for ponies, but likely wouldn’t provide any examples of how to take advantage of it.

The remaining one percent would be split among:

People who point out that with IronPython you could just use the built-in System.Horse.Pony class from .NET.
People who point out that with Jython you could just use the built-in java.lang.Horse.Pony class from Java.
People who point out that asynchronously generating ponies is much easier in Twisted, once you wrap your head around the idea of needing to put your foot in the stirrup and mount the Pony before you call the code to create it.
Guido, who’d just say, “I like ponies”.

Now, where did I leave my asbestos suit?

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Must Ignore vs. Microformats

Upset at how microformats add complexity to your HTML? Use XML instead! That always makes things simpler…

Simon Willison

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