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Python 2.3’s Python Packages
Index (PyPI) has introduced me to the Roundup issue tracker and Python Task
Planner, both by the PyPI guy!

Delicious! Python
2.3 is out, full of new goodies like a new command-line option parsing module, some much-needed boolean value
helpers, a new suite
of date/time types, and new distutils integration
with a central package index.

Origin of “X is hard; let’s go shopping!” –
from jwz
and Everything2.

Me? I’m biding my time for the day when unironed dress shirts, vintage
Old Navy jeans, tshirts wrinkled from being folded in the dresser, and
pants wrinkled from the hanger become fashionable. Then I will be
money. So, so money.

Jason Kottke on fashion.

Ahh, Bill Maher is back. “Yes, Arnold Schwarzenegger, finally a candidate who can explain the Administration’s positions on civil liberties in the original German.”

Uh, what? This is another Dimensional Warp Generator spam, but it’s totally different:

From: "" [withheld]
Subject: Dimensional Warp Generator Needed m yo vau
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 03 04:21:48 GMT

Hello,

I'm a time traveler stuck here in 2003. Upon arriving here my dimensional warp generator stopped working. I trusted a company here by the name of LLC Lasers to repair my Generation 3 52 4350A watch unit, and they fled on me. I am going to need a new DWG unit, prefereably the rechargeable AMD wrist watch model with the GRC79 induction motor, four I80200 warp stabilizers, 512GB of SRAM and the menu driven GUI with front panel XID display.

I will take whatever model you have in stock, as long as its received certification for being safe on carbon based life

forms.

In terms of payment:
I dont have any Galactic Credits left. Payment can be made in platinum gold or 2003 currency upon safe delivery of unit.

Please transport unit in either a large brown paper bag or box to below coordinates on Monday July 28th at (exactly 3:00pm) Eastern Standard Time on the dot. A few minutes prior will be ok, but it cannot be after. If you miss this timeframe please email me.

Twenty-three inches in from the outside edge of the corner at the South West
Corner of Cummings Ave. & Village Street in Woburn, Mass. is at Latitude
42.4845467 & Longitude -71.1576157 and the ground is 101.3' above sea level.
WARNING: DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRANSPORT ITEM BY REGULAR MEANS OF TELEPORTATION. THEY ARE MONITORING AND WILL REDIRECT THE SIGNAL!!
(NOBODY HAS BEEN ABLE TO TRANSPORT ANYTHING SO FAR WITHOUT THE TRANSFER BEING DEFLECTED). I DO NOT CARE HOW YOU HAVE TO GET IT HERE, JUST DO IT IN A WAY THAT NO SPYING EYES WILL POSSIBLY BE ABLE TO REDIRECT THE TRANSFERENCE. IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU BE ABLE TO MONITOR THE TRANSFER.

Although those coordinates are a secure guarded area, these channels through email are never secure. Unfortunately it is the only form of communication I have right now.

After unit has been sent please email me at: [removed]
with payment instructions. Do not reply directly back to this email.

Thank You