What? Was Mariah Carey and Beyonce too distracting?

Dear Mainstream Media:

Here we are, three weeks or so into the BurlingtonNorthernCoatFactoryIslamicCommunityCenter controversy, and only now are you learning that Imam Rauf is a Sufi? And only now you're learning that "sufism" is distinct from the Shia'a or Sunni traditions, a mysstical and highly tolerant tradition that the Shia'a and Sunni traditions generally look down upon?

We've been at war in several countries where these are major issues and you still don't understand them? Where the hell is your responsibility to educate the American people?

Geek: Django and Asynchronous Gearman, Together At Last!

I've posted a new article for my technical blog, Django and Asynchronous Gearman, which allows you to start long-running processes in Gearman from Django, and (and this is the nifty part) receive messages from Gearman in Django informing you of when the process is finished. Very useful for processing video, audio, and large document conversion.

It's a toy example, and it would need a lot of memcached work to be production-viable, but since I've never seen a complete example of this in the wild, dammit, I felt a contribution was in order.