"Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin A. Abbott.

> Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.

AC Transit is building out a BRT line in the East Bay between Oakland and San Leandro.

http://www.actransit.org/brt/

At Pinterest, we expanded the precision of our existing timestamp-based sequence column to accommodate reordering:

https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering/how-we-built-rearr...

Seeing this prompted me to revisit http://thecan.org/, "a pet cemetery for dead games."

Also check out the instance-per-request demo: http://zerg.erlangonxen.org/

I'd also recommend Curlish (http://packages.python.org/curlish/). It performs nice JSON highlighting and also handles OAuth 2.0 token authentication.

It simply wraps curl(1), so all of the familiar arguments and recipes continue to work just fine, as well.

Mike gave a great talk to the San Francisco PostgreSQL User Group in which he discussed their PostgreSQL setup.

Slides: http://media.postgresql.org/sfpug/instagram_sfpug.pdf

Video: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/21929154

It's also fun to remember that all of the Apollo moon landings took place during just a 3.5 year period in the middle of the Nixon administration.

"I hope my handwriting, etc. do not give the impression I am just a crank or circle-squarer."

It seems he considered how a handwritten letter might be perceived.

I wrote a similar Python library (named yuri) a couple of months back: https://github.com/jparise/yuri

I was motivated to write it in response to one of Quora's Programming Challenges (http://www.quora.com/about/challenges). It seemed like a fun problem, and I had never had a good reason to read through the applicable RFCs. I wonder if furl was similarly motivated?

I don't find the standard library modules very difficult to use, however, so I haven't spent much more time on it since then.