Some things I've come across in the past few days that are worth saving for future reference, or worth sharing.

Web

• Using nginx as a load balancer
• ProDjango also available in ebook format.
• Markdown Syntax reference, since I've started using it.

Lols

• NirGaga - Smells like Poker Face?
• How to handle your boss asking about a project

Linguistics

• Textbooks for Germanic languages should be written in Anglish
• Explitive infixation - Opti-fuckin-mality Theory

Norway

• Solution to killer superbug found in Norway - How Norway got rid of MRSA
• Telephone Storm after mysterious light phenomenon (lysfenomenen) in Northern Norway (translation). In the end it was a failed Russian rocket launched from a submarine (translation), and capable of being equipped with nuclear warheads.

Catching up on Hel Looks

People often ask me why I like Helsinki, and all the unique fashion is one of the reasons. I caught up on Hel-Looks, an awesome documentation of cool fashion in Helsinki and found some cool things. Summary. Jeans: tighter than skinny jeans ever were, high top shoes: in, and stuff your pants into them. Big scarves are very yes. Otherwise, all of this is really optional and anything goes.

Some finds: yy, kaa, koo, nee, vii, kuu, see, kasi, ysi, kymppi

Minnesota

• 3 new autonomous schools to open in Minneapolis district
• Cultures clash among classmates at SE Minn. schools - Troubles Somali youths face as 1st generation immigrants

• Judge rules against pawlenty's allotments

  tl;dr:

  Pawlenty: "We are disappointed in the judge’s decision. We are weighing all of our options including appeal, reestablishing unallotments under the current forecast, potential legislative action, and other options."

  From Judge Gearin's ruling: "The authority of the Governor to unallot is an authority intended to save the state in times of a previously unforeseen budget crisis, it is not meant to be used as a weapon by the executive branch to break a stalemate in budget negotiatons with the Legislature or to rewrite the appropriations bill."

  Galen Robinson of Mid Minnesota Legal Assistance: "We’re enormously pleased that the court agreed with our position and relieved that our clients will be able to afford the food they need to stay healthy. We recognize that both the Legislature and the governor have a difficult burden to find a resolution to the budget shortfall." ... "This shortfall was neither unknown nor unanticipated."

Non-straight

• Same-sex marriage map of the world

Gaming, nostalgia:

• RivenX, Riven for OS X Leopard and above

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Ryan