Sup Pop is well-known for unabashed self-promotion and grandiose overstatement. Thing is, most of that (tongue-in-cheek) hyperbole is deserved. The much-touted reunion of Green River, one of the label's first signees, was no different. It truly was the highlight of Sub Pop's two-day 20th birthday ba...

I posted about it on Twitter this afternoon, but I finally succumbed to the FriendFeed trend and I’m going to let them do the hard work of aggregating my life stream and normalizing it. Honestly, I don’t need to fight the never-ending battle of scraping and parsing a billion feeds when a...

Rob LoftHouse just announced on his Twitter that DjangoCon 2008 will be taking place at the GooglePlex (that’s Google’s Mountain View, California headquarters) on September 6th and 7th! Woo! Rob also indicates that a Djangoproject.com posting will be up soon. The official post ...

Seattlest told you about the Sub Pop Big Deal and a bunch of other live music happening this weekend, but we neglected to mention the acts appearing at West Seattle's Summer Fest. Shame on us, too, because the best (in this Seattlest's opinion) already came and went Friday night. Recently reunited C...

I’m flooding the site with Django stuff lately, but I’ve had a recent burst of productivity that I attribute almost solely to my reading of James Bennett‘s new book, Practical Django Projects . This particular project isn’t completely done yet, but it mostly works. I just nee...

One of the big downfalls of storing bits of templates in your database is that you’re limited to HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Individuals editing flatpages can’t use template filters or other bits of Django’s awesome templating language. Usually this doesn’t make much sense, but...

Without Green River in 1984, there might be no Sub Pop Records today. Without Sub Pop in 1987, there might be no Mudhoney—or even Pearl Jam—in 2008. (Green River begat Mudhoney and Mother Love Bone; MLB begat PJ.) And without either in the 80s, there likely would have been no "Seattle Sound" exp...

I'm proud that this essage was publicized and sent out on my birthday! Joint Lutheran Message to the Presidential Candidates July 8, 2008 We write to you representing the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Lutheran Services in America, and Luther...

I just whipped together another really simple Django application I call django-google-analytics that simplifies the process of inserting Google Analytics tags into your Django projects. Why did I create this? I manage a lot of Django projects that present slightly-different forms to users ...

Here’s another one that I’ve yanked out of a project. I call it RestrictMiddlware and it is a real simple, and really easily bypassed “security” mechanism. Like most security, it’s just security theater, but some clients make it so hard to enable true security that you&...