'Computing in Science and Engineering' issue devoted to Python
The May/June 2007 issue of Computing in Science and Engineering, a joint publication of IEEE and the American Institute for Physics, is devoted to Python. Some of the articles, covering everything from IPython, matplotlib and NumPy to robots, the stars and education, are available for free download.
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.