Memeorandum Colors: Visualizing Political Bias with Greasemonkey : nice hack
(tags: hacks greasemonkey ui us-politics election)Xen/VPS hosting reviews : good list from Russell Coker. Gandi’s product is amazingly cheap at EUR6 for super-low-end nodes (UPDATE: that’s because the page is wrong! in reality it’s EUR10+VAT)
(tags: gandi xen vps linux hosting reviews)Make-Believe Maverick : ‘A closer look at the life and career of John McCain reveals a disturbing record of recklessness and dishonesty.’ amazingly vicious hatchet-job on John McCain from _Rolling Stone_
(tags: rolling-stone articles toread vicious john-mccain expose maverick tim-dickinson)Spam Volumes Plummet After Atrivo Shutdown : MessageLabs indicates a ‘significant drop’ in spam/botnet activity, due to loss of C&C networks located at Atrivo
(tags: messagelabs atrivo spam botnets cutwail mega-d securityfix)Marshal reckon the Storm botnet has dried up : ‘Spam originating from the Storm botnet suddenly dried up in mid-September. Since that time we have not detected a single Storm spam in our traps.’
(tags: storm spam botnets malware marshal)Django test fixtures : handy; load initial test data into the database from JSON files. must start using these
(tags: fixtures testing django web-apps sql json)