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A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages: Excellent description of the history of programming languages, from Ada to Scala. Good stuff :)
Hg-Git Mercurial Plugin: And so it begins: maybe we can all converge on a single ur-DVCS once and for all!
Mike Rowe on work: Exactly mirrors my sentiments about skilled labor - even if it' dirty, difficult work. The last four minutes are the most important part,
Validation: Awesome sort film on how people really ought to talk to one another.
Common Java exceptions: The funniest thing I have read in a long, *long* time. Surprised my coworkers when I fell out my chair laughing. If you don't understand why this is funny, come back after writing regression tests against a large Java codebase...
Pure Python PNG Canvas: Finally! A pure-python image library for sparkline and graphic creation when I can't install PIL. I have been waiting for a library like this for SO LONG.
The 37signals Effect: Excellent post about the importance of context in development strategies. "If it worked for 37signals, it probably won't work for you, because you're not 37signals." A good read.
Writing Blazing Fast, Infinitely Scalable, Pure-WSGI Utilities: Good reasoning on the whole apps-accessible-only-through-API vs. website difference that makes frameworks like RoR and Django overkill for some projects. I don't know about "infinitely scalable" though.
Kilim: Java framework that provides Erlang-style concurrency and message passing. As fast as Erlang, but it doesn't do hot code-swapping. What I'd really like to see is this used to implement a new erlanguage with sane syntax.
CairoPlot 1.1: Nice plotting library for python, complete with Web2.0-style rounded corners and gradients. The pie charts are quite nice (not that you should ever actually use pie charts).

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