Links published in December 2008
Terry Pratchett knighted in Queen’s new year honours list
Now he just needs to be made a duke and a commander.
(Via Metafilter)
Scrapy
An interesting-looking web crawler/scraper framework built on Twisted.
What Colour are your bits?
Somewhat old, but one of the best explorations I’ve found of technological issues surrounding copyright of digital works.
Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog (Amazon.com Exclusive)
I know someone who’s getting this for Christmas.
Bookmarks Extension
I’ve always preferred the standard Mercurial workflow of cloning a repository when I want to branch and do some work (since it makes quite a few common operations easier), but this at least gives me something to point to when people ask for git-style branches in Mercurial.