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Monday, 12th February 2007

United Nuclear (via) Gotta love an online store that stocks both “Misc Radioactive Items” and “Anti-Radiation Pills”.

# 8:25 am / radioactive, science

Fake bloggers soon to be “named and shamed” (via) Apparently due to a new EU directive banning companies from “falsely representing oneself as a consumer”.

# 9:35 am / astroturfing, spam

Please, fanboys, don't send me dumb notes averring that Apple's failure to police this use of its mark will lead to the end of its ability to stop manufacturers from producing rival MP3 players and calling them iPods. That's a fairy tale that trademark lawyers tell their kids when they want to reassure them that they'll have a healthy college fund.

Cory Doctorow

# 2:05 pm / apple, boingboing, copyright, corydoctorow

soaplib (via) New open-source Python SOAP library, with a pleasantly Pythonic looking API.

# 10:26 pm / jonathan-lacour, python, soap, soaplib, web-services

Say Hello to Elixir for SQLAlchemy. New ActiveRecord style layer over SQLAlchemy; a collaboration that includes the authors of ActiveMapper and TurboEntity.

# 10:28 pm / elixir, python, sqlalchemy