This is a very useful page of binary package downloads for Python 2.5 for OS X. If you're running on a Mac, check it out (it includes binaries of packages like PIL.)

The comprehensive uninstallation directions for MacPython comprise the single sentence: "To uninstall MacPython, you can simply remove these three things." The three things refer to the MacPython 2.5 application folder (/Applications/MacPython), the framework (/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework), and (I'm assuming) the symlink in /usr/local/bin.

Unfortunately, what it doesn't tell you is that unless you also remove all files with names starting with Python under /Library/Receipts, the installer won't let you reinstall MacPython (it checks these to see what is already installed). Instead the installer tells you that a newer version is installed, marks the files "skip", and fails with "nothing to install".

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If you really want to annoy someone on LOVEFILM, enter their email address in the "Forgotten Password" screen.

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My friend and fellow Brightoner Simon Willison of Django/OpenID fame has just released a lovely little mashup called wikinear that uses FireEagle and Wikipedia to show you Wikipedia articles that are relevant to your current location.

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That's it, I give up. I'm shutting my ears off to anything that has Flash and iPhone in the same sentence.

First Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen announced that they were working on Flash for the iPhone, now Adobe clarifies that no, they're actually not.

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