Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-2-2009

• Ruby in Twenty Minutes
  (tags: programming tutorials ruby)
   
• Principles of the American Cargo Cult
  list of bad thinking, some of it particularly American
  (tags: curmudegon usa failure cognition culture society trainwreck grumpy)
   
• Code Like a Pythonista: Idiomatic Python
  (tags: via:n0wak software programming python style)
   
• Europe's "Medicinal Cannibalism": The Healing Power of Death - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International
  "In 1492, when Pope Innocent VIII was on his deathbed, his doctors bled three boys and had the pope drink their blood. The boys died, and so did the pope."
  (tags: via:splodinvark death medicine failure cannibalism yikes)
   
• 30 Ways to Die of Electrocution - a set on Flickr
  via brepetis.com/blog
  (tags: flickr history safety illustration)