Zed Shaw's rant blog, run apart from his calmer essays, where he and contributors write angry takes on programming and tech figures.
HN commenters link it for his critique of Dive Into Python, and note it is a rant site and is blacklisted on HN.
Sorry. I posted this as soon as I got the info from a friend on IRC... I thought it was still valid. I haven't tried the code myself, since I have a lot of other books to read right now, but hoped it might interest other people.
Also, I wasn't only posting this for the "deal of the day" part: I thought it might spark some interesting discussion about the book.
Mark Pilgrim is the author of http://diveintohtml5.org/ and http://code.google.com/p/doctype/wiki/Welcome?tm=6 (reddit discussion here ).
He's also the author of "Dive Into Python", which is a well-known python book, but Zed Shaw does not seem to like it very much ( http://oppugn.us/posts/1272050135.html ), so here you go...
Valleywag was blacklisted early on, and Gawker has been too at least as long as Valleywag has been reintegrated into it. Plenty of other domains are blacklisted too: http://infoworld.com has been for some time, http://oppugn.us/ got added fairly recently, http://www.kungfugrippe.com/ got added after a (wholly justified) rant about Scribd (YC S06!).
You hate CSS? Here is an actual rant by zedshaw: http://oppugn.us/posts/1287608776.html
"I absolutely hate CSS. It has to be the most inconsistent, poorly designed, bat shit fucking crazy piece of computing technology we have today. And remember, I used to code Ruby and Perl for a living. If I'm saying CSS is bat shit crazy I mean it."
As usual Zed Shaw brings cogent and thoughtful debate to the table.
I especially like the inaccurate[1] and racist ending.
[1] プログラミング、マザーファッカー (puroguramingu mazaafakkaa)
e: I was referring to http://oppugn.us/posts/1300784321.html I did not notice the link was different.
It's probably good to note there are some differing opinions on diveintopython, (well, mostly zed shaw's opinion).
Here is his rant about it: http://oppugn.us/posts/1272050135.html
Here is the hn discussion of his rant: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1289186
he only discusses controversial ideas
Seriously? Zed Shaw loves to rant about people. Ranting about people brought him into this tiny, niche internet spotlight in the first place. And have you even looked at http://oppugn.us/? Apparently not.