Links published in August 2008
1965 World Series
Twins won the first two games, Dodgers came back to win the series in seven, on the strength of two shutouts from Sandy Koufax (who famously didn’t pitch Game 1 because it fell on Yom Kippur).
Suck it, trivia dude at the Bottleneck.
Suggesting solutions we don’t use ourselves
Okay, color me clueless. Why do we think other people will be jumping up-and-down over the opportunity to use stuff that we personally find a total bore?
Creating Social Networks Few Want
By providing multiple levels at which our readers can engage, we create that noise that is seemingly so important in order to justify the worth of our spaces. What we’re finding, though, is that based on such activity, the noise level may increase, but it increases as noise, rather than the thoughtful comments that inspired our original interest, years ago.
“Default” templates in Django
We use this technique all the time at World Online to avoid what would otherwise be a cumbersome job of producing lots of templates over and over again, and I’m glad to finally have a good writeup to point people to.