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JSctypes - MozillaWiki
"js-ctypes is a foreign-function library for Mozilla’s privileged JavaScript. It provides C-compatible data types and allows JS code to call functions in shared libraries (dll, so, dylib) and implement callback functions. The interface and implementation are modeled on the Python ctypes module."
New Data Suggests We Don’t Live in a Void, and Supports Dark Energy
"An alternative proposal to dark energy in which the Earth sits near the center of a large void is undergoing scrutiny, and the results show that void models fit poorly with observed data. Nevertheless, scientists say that more research will be needed to determine if void models, dark energy, or something else can accurately explain how the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate."
Blue Sky On Mars » Paver 1.0a1 is out
"I have just pushed Paver 1.0a1 up to the Python Cheeseshop. This is very much an alpha release, so beware. That said, I’m successfully using it in my own projects and have been for some time.
I have significantly changed the way Paver works, and I think the new structure is simpler and more flexible because it is no longer tied to distutils. In fact, Paver’s task running capability is in paver/tasks.py and that module could conceivably be used standalone. And, the namespace of tasks is not muddied with a bunch of distutils tasks if you’re making a pavement for some other purpose.
But, the distutils/setuptools integration still exists and is easy to turn on.
Paver 1.0a1 has a handful of useful new features, including the ability to run separate sub-pavements (in the same process, no less)."
X-FRAME-OPTIONS in Firefox
"As I promised in my previous posts about so called IE8’s “Clickjacking protection”, some hours ago I released the NoScript 1.8.9.9 development build, featuring experimental but complete compatibility with the X-FRAME-OPTIONS header support introduced by IE8 and unveiled yesterday by Eric Lawrence on the IE Blog."