Chicago Reader Blogs: Post No Bills: Tim Tuten to work for Arne Duncan
“Tuten, who’s worked for the Chicago Public Schools for almost 23 years–he began teaching high school in 1986 and joined the administrative staff in 2005–says there’s a saying at his bar: “Nobody ever quits at the Hideout, they just go on tour.” Though [...]
Through the Wire
"Hey, I'm just happy to be here…"
March 31st, 2009
WNUR Conference of the Birds, 2009-03-31
“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives.
Well, no archive for this week, and that’s annoying. (Fie on you, Audio Hijack.) I liked the range of music for [...]
March 30th, 2009
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Sizeable #pycon contingent to see @adrianholovaty play guitar at Edgewater Lounge
There’s a ton of people signed up for OpenGov Hackathon/PyCon sprints next wk. More than any other project. http://tr.im/hXvI
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“There is a growing trend for people, including some [...]
March 29th, 2009
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Re-scandalized that there’s no coffee at the #pycon afternoon break. Then again, I did learn that it costs >$100/gallon from hotel!
Idle Words » Best Practices For Time Travelers
“1. Act like you don’t care whether people believe you
“A real time traveler would be crazy to try and prove his identity – you’ll either end up somewhere [...]
March 28th, 2009
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Generic Puzzle Solving Framework (Python)
“Create your puzzle as a subclass of Puzzle().
The first step is to choose a representation of the problem
state preferably stored as a string. Set ‘pos’ to the starting
position and ‘goal’ to the ending position. Create a genmoves()
method that computes all possible new puzzle states reachable from
the current state. [...]
March 27th, 2009
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@tenzochris Thanks for the tip! I’ve been meaning to check out Youngblood for a while but never got to it… (in reply to this tweet)
(from @tenzochris) @JoeGermuska I’d be doing you a disservice if I didn’t suggest the Youngblood Brass Band. http://bit.ly/Nyiu – yucky flash site – great band (in reply to this tweet)
(from @chronicbabe) [...]
March 26th, 2009
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(from @buoyant) @joegermuska that is a real bummer.
(from @orensr) @JoeGermuska That’s too bad – heard them a couple of years back at Vancouver Folk Fest – they’re terrific!
Bummed to hear that tomorrow night’s Carolina Chocolate Drops show has been cancelled.
Prague’s Franz Kafka International Named World’s Most Alienating Airport | The Onion – America’s Finest News [...]
March 25th, 2009
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IT Conversations | Jon Udell’s Interviews with Innovators | Phil Windley (Free Podcast)
Udell is clearly excited about the prospects for Kynetyx (Windley’s company) and their developing system for enriching the web browsing experience based on contextual information about the user.
(tags: technology web2.0 podcast audio)
Media Giants Want to Top Google Results – Advertising Age – [...]
March 24th, 2009
WNUR Conference of the Birds, 2009-03-24
“Conference of the Birds” is my weekly radio program on WNUR-FM. It airs on Tuesdays from 5-7:30 am Chicago time (UTC-6). And, of course, when technology cooperates, you can just come here for the archives.
No great insights or themes about this week’s show, but I very much liked the Glenn Horiuchi tune, and I’m wondering [...]
March 24th, 2009
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Brown Paper Tickets – Rogers Park Dinner Crawl, Sunday 29 Mar 2009
“The Rogers Park Dinner Crawl: A World of Taste will introduce participants to 16 restaurants in Rogers Park. Each participant will be given a “passport” containing a brief description of each dish they will be sampling along with the restaurant name and type.
“Vans will [...]