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Christopher Hitchens writes about his cancer. Not much else to say except that it's as shockingly honest as usual.

With these justification tools, we've made it as convenient as possible to justify your investment to attend [our conference].

Photos of the Brick Lane idiots. Looks like being a fag smokin' half-mast hipster honky is very du jour.

Good WHATWG mailing list post by HTML5 spec editor Ian Hickson on how he approached specifying the new video captioning/subtitling mechanism, with details on researching use-cases, choosing the subtitling format and how much expert opinion he has to try to assimilate into a single, sane spec.

Very concise walkthrough for using Virtualenv and Pip to create different, isolated Python environments.

"TeuxDeux is a simple, designy, browser-based to-do app and the first collaboration between studio-mates swissmiss and Fictive Kin."

"This month the last 36 frames of Kodachrome film ever produced by Kodak passed through Dwayne's Photo Service in Parsons, Kan. — the only commercial lab in the world that still developed the format."

Comparing the websites for Apple’s primary desktop computer, and the same from Dell and HP. Ouch!

"Ever since Truman’s closed the brewery in 1989 after more than three centuries of brewing in Brick Lane, their absence has been felt throughout East London, emphasised by all the ex-Truman’s pubs that are still emblazoned with the name as part of their architecture. Meanwhile, the venerable history and resonant name of Truman’s – which remains synonymous with beer in East London – got lost in series of corporate takeovers at the end of the last century. They were sorely missed. And it looked like it was all over, the barrel was empty, the last glass had been drunk and the dregs had been drained. But now, in an entirely unexpected joyous development, two fearless young men are bringing Truman’s back."