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Waapuro: A dead-simple hiragana and katakana romanization library

I put my first package on PyPI. Then I found a bug, so I made a point release to fix it! There are probably more of those lurking, which you can report over on GitHub.

Just like so many others before me, I wrote this library to scratch an itch, namely providing romanized pronunciations for Omnipresence’s WWWJDIC plugin. (Speaking of which, if I ever get that bot’s code into a less shameful state, I should put it on PyPI too…)

Spoilers for the last Colbert Report

The selection of Neutral Milk Hotel’s contradictory “Holland, 1945” for the end credits of the final episode – sonically upbeat, yet lyrically a grim contention with death – makes a lot of sense in this light.

Just sayin’.

Meanwhile, Paul Krugman, who was part of the massive studio chorus singing “We’ll Meet Again” along with Mr. Colbert, reveals that there really was a conspiracy all along, bwahahaha!

@spinor writes:

I’ve always liked the 14th Amendment.

Google Reader alternatives: The title of this website reminds me first of the Gini coefficient, and it makes me think that income inequality is somehow correlated with which RSS reader people use. Time to put on my amateur sociologist/technologist goggles.

@rocketverliden writes:

5th Amendment?

Startup founders vs Entrepreneurs: The former want to do cool things, while the latter want to achieve business and financial goals. The two sets aren’t mutually exclusive, but you can be forgiven for believing that they are. Meanwhile, it’s still hard to read “one billion dollars” in anything other than Dr. Evil’s voice.

@all-eternals-deck writes:

Particularly fond of the 9th.

China Snuffs Out Discussion of Tiananmen: There’s a great symbolic irony in how, in trying to prevent netizens from discussing the past, Chinese censors have blocked searches for “today” and “tomorrow”. By preventing the public from looking back, they are in essence clouding the present and future.

I’m sorry, that was accidentally serious.

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