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An intersting audio application: Query By Humming from the inventor of the MP3 format allows you to hum a fragment of a tune and the computer tells you the name of the song. Test it at Musicline (server seems to be down) [via heise.de ]

Complex CSS Layout with 3 colums is a beautiful demo of what can be accomplished with CSS alone. [via Simon Willison]

For a small project coming up, the Twisted Framework in Python seems like an intersting foundation. Twisted handles all kinds of network stuff for you and allows you to write the top level stuff without having to worry about the gory details of the network. An Fake SMTP server only takes 136 lines of Python code (and that includes extensive docstrings)

Thanks to Nat for the link to the [Henri Cartier-Bresson portrait gallery

I’m running Debian on my Laptop (thanks to Knoppix), so I guess I’m entitled to go to the Etoy Debian Party in Zurich… [Via BitFlux]

eyes closed illumines love shield to words Hmm - I guess it could be a lot worse than that - and the Darwinian Poetry project has generated worse poetry. I’m specifically interested in this kind of research, because my company Ivorix - evolving software builds software that relies on some of the same mechanisms to generate trading strategies for trading stocks. Out of the work, we’ve done, I know that genetic algorithms have to power to come up with solutions to really hard problems. Poetry seems to be one of these…. ...