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Google App Engine seems pretty freaking sweet to me. In short:

write apps in Python
deploy on Google’s infrastructure
access to existing Google goodness like BigTable, email, and authentication
free account can use up to 500MB of storage and serve ~5M page views/month
non-free accounts coming soon
can upload additional modules as long as they fit the sandbox rules

Unfortunately the […]

Software Engineering for Internet Applications
Purports to teach enough for a college student to “build Amazon.com” by him or herself.
(tags: software book internet programming web development)

Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Kids Do
Because overprotecting kids is becoming ridiculous if we want them to end up confident, creative, and capable.
(tags: video children parenting ted kids dangerous)

Optimus’ Evolution of Dance
A re-do of the classic “Evolution of Dance” starring Optimus Prime.
(tags: transformers funny humor video dance parody optimusprime)

15 helpful WordPress plugins for the savvy user
Some good stuff in here that I think I might not be able to live without.
(tags: wordpress plugins blogging)

Hilarious Muppets Bloopers!
Best rickrolling ever.
(tags: muppets rickroll video humor youtube […]

COBOL ON COGS
Nice April-fools sendup of Rails (and web frameworks in general)
(tags: cobol programming humor funny rails frameworks webdev)

l33t-ifying middleware for Django
Eric uses lxml to put together a quick l33t-ifying Django middleware for April Fool’s–clever.
(tags: django l33t middleware software webdev)