Blondes 'to die out in 200 years', according to the BBC.
Apparently, dyed-blondes are more attractive to men who choose them as partners over true blondes. Then they use Ann Widdecombe as an example of a bottle blonde! Are they taking the piss?
Ah well - I'm more partial to redheads myself, even if they are all psychopaths.
Update 2nd October: Ah. It's a hoax. I really should have guessed that. The BBC is usually so reliable, though...
Just as fascinating - Secular Singles, Personal ads for atheists, agnostics and other freethinkers. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a terrible one, but I'm sure that I feel strongly about it one way or the other.
FixedPoint.py now has its own SourceForge project!
A whole project for one module might seem like a bit much, but it's such an essential module that I think it's a good idea.
There has been some discussion in c.l.py about whether you can use floating point for financial database work. Having 'grow up' with fixed point for this sort of thing, it's a no-brainer so far as I am concerned.
PdfSearch is a full-text PDF file indexer and searcher.
It incorporates Dsave Mertz's indexer.py.
The EffNews Project: Building an RSS Newsreader is now complete.
Everything you need to know to build a simple RSS aggregater.
It would be good to incoporate Mark's ultra-liberal RSS parser into this.
Make the fast lane do an overhead loop; the slow pokes would drop off at the top.
JellySwing looks very interesting. It's an XML based GUI generator (Like Thinlets or the Java Gui Builder), but it generates its GUIs at runtime, and supports embedded expressions, custom tags, iteration over SQL and beans.
Via Sanjay.
We are taking no chances in such a sensitive area.
Via FARK.
Kaa is a client based webblogging tool, in pure Python. Looks cool.
I think that I'll stick with Movable Type for the moment, though. It's server based, which I like, though it does add a couple of hurdles in terms of hosting & installation.
I have tried to donate to Movable Type, but PayPal sign-up doesn't work for me - it rejects my password, no matter what I enter. What can I do? I certainly can't be bothered to ring PayPal's helpline! I'd like to donate, but if it's that much hassle, I can't really be bothered.
Via Python Daily URL.