Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Activity tagged “history”
Bookmarks
SR-71 Break-Up
“Everything seemed to unfold in slow motion. I learned later the time from event onset to catastrophic departure from controlled flight was only 2-3 sec. Still trying to communicate with Jim, I blacked out, succumbing to extremely high g-forces. The SR-71 then literally disintegrated around us. ”
WebAIM: Blog - History of the browser user-agent string
“And thus Chrome used WebKit, and pretended to be Safari, and WebKit pretended to be KHTML, and KHTML pretended to be Gecko, and all browsers pretended to be Mozilla, […] and the user agent string was a complete mess, and near useless, and everyone pretended to be everyone else, and confusion abounded.”
Wikihistory
“Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?”
AuditTrail - Django Code - Trac
Marty Alchin's amazingly cool “audit trail” for Django models. Essentially creates *Audit models that track all changes to the underlying model. Unbelievably slick; this should make the start of a *very* nice third-party app.
Django | Weblog | A great two years
Happy birthday to us!
Nate Harrison: “Can I get an Amen?”
Documentary on the Amen Break
Retrosheet
Comprehensive baseball stats through 1984, free for nearly any use.
If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn't everyone in Asia have a headache?
Very intersting article about MSG