My second article on Pynk (my ink-based Python interactive console) is now available on DevX.

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Casey Chesnut wants pen tilt.

Yep, the Tablet PC API already supports pen tilt information, but as of yet none of the hardware does. [Via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Incremental Blogger]

[Additionally, the API support “in-air Z” – how far from the digitizer surface is the stylus. Another unique capability that …

Apparently Tivo is going to open up the system to third-party development. Very interesting.

Casey Chesnut used a neural network to defeat comment-spam CAPTCHAs and used his software to auto-post a polite “Sorry, you've been 0wned, here's how I did it” comment on 90+ blogs. Apparently, some people have their comment system linked to hairs up their asses and Furor Has Erupted (tm). “He …

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Internal Coding Guidelines posted by Brad Abrams [via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Cook Computing]

Not completely to my taste (if you reject Hungarian notation, why should interface names be prefixed with an “I”?), but definitely helpful. :::

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[The Register has a good piece on a bug that floods a tablet PC's memory until it conks out. Here's what they said: "The culprit is the application Tabtip.exe [via]{style="font-style:italic"} [Alice and Bill.com]]{style=""}

Sigh. The Tablet PC definitely has … issues … with memory management …

So there I am, all smug in my 99 Nerd Score and along comes a guy who builds an Apollo Guidance Computer in his basement. Not a software simulator, mind you (a nerdy exercise I can at least imagine), but an actual wire-wrapped reproduction. I am but a smudge of …

Spent the weekend getting my butt kicked in a Frisbee Golf Tournament over on the Hilo side. Camped at the gorgeous Mackenzie State Park, where the first two rounds were played in a very tight, forested course (the only two holes that weren't through trees were over the water). Yesterday …

The hip and wonderful Audiovox SMT-5600 is going for \$150 with a \$150 rebate at Amazon. Get 'em while they're in stock:

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I’ll be using this as soon as the service makes it over here… 

*[Cory Doctorow]{style=""}: TiVo's new DRM system allows you to move video from your TiVo to your PC, but not as a plain MPEG file that you can slice and dice and watch …