News You Can Bruise for 2006 January 13

Today I learned from a robotfindskitten user that there appears to be a bug in Python's curses interface to Mac OS X. It seems you can't hide the cursor on a Mac terminal with curs_set. Calling it returns ERR, and Python's curses.wrapper can't handle the ERR. So you crash. Has anyone else experienced this?

Also, robot finds panties

Here's a bunch of public domain movies you can download with BitTorrent. Speaking of which, I was looking around to see if you could download all of the Project Gutenberg files with BitTorrent. This site alleges to be the official tracker, and an 88 gigabyte download sounds within the right order of magnitude.