Recommended on-line Pylons training resource.

Quoted: Welcome to the Pylons Book website where you can read all the chapters of the recently published Definitive Guide to Pylons, an open source book written by James Gardner and published by Apress.

The book covers the Pylons 0.9.7 release and is available for free to read here online.

Garrison Keillor in the NY Times. A fun Op-Ed, but I Faved it solely for the paragraph quoted below.

Quoted: As Proust said in his “Remembrance of Things Past” — or, in French, “A la recherche du temps perdu,” his memoir of doing research, or “recherche,” as a temp at Purdue and of the mysterious Madeleine, who was one of the things he remembered, but don’t let me give away the whole book, you should read it for yourselves — “Nous sommes qui nous sommes”: We are what we are, and that is the heart and soul of Republicanism today.

I hope (with conceit) that he spent substantial time crafting that breathtaking sentence.

On the art of crafting sentences, a discussion that will refresh your reader's eye and deflate your writer's ego. From the webzine 'The Believer'.

Quoted: (...) The words of the sentence have in fact formed a united community. Or, rather, if the words don’t manage to do this all by themselves—because maybe they mostly won’t—you will have to nudge them along in the process. (...)

A terrific article in Columbia College Today on how "The Fifties" replaced "the 50's". Insightful quotations from the early 70's about the displacement of "beat" images from our post-war history.

A project of the Long Now Foundation to archive a comprehensive record of comparison for 1,000 known human languages in a durable (their sense) format.

The last paragraph of the piece does a great job of driving home the real point of the project.

From NYT Magazine, a theme from his coming book.

It's taken me 25 years to grow up enough to properly appreciate this very funny book. Four chapters are excerpted here, starting with chapter 16: Wm. Goebel: He Kept Trying

Korean archive includes free online access to a library of scientific journals including several IEEE journal archives and links to non-free archives.

KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)Institutional Repository
KOASAS (KAIST Open Access Self-Archiving System)

The follow-on book to 'Innovator's Dilemma'. One of those rare situations where a business-methods book spawns progeny that adds real value to the original concept.