Leo 4.11 final: Python scripting IDE

Leo 4.11 final is now available here.

Leo is a PIM, an IDE and an outliner for programmers, authors and web designers. Leo's unique features organize data in a revolutionary way. Python scripts can easily access all parts of Leo outlines. See Leo's tutorial for more information.

The highlights of Leo 4.11:
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- Leo's tutorials have been rewritten and simplified.
- Greatly improved abbreviations, including templates.
- Clones are now valid anywhere in @file nodes.
- Leo now warns if a .leo file is open elsewhere.
- Leo's IPython bridge now works with IPython 1.x.
- Added support for @testsetup and @testclass.
- Added support for sessions.
- Added colorizing themes.
- A colored border highlights the pane with focus.
- Added support for the clojure, markdown and TypeScript languages.
- Added importers for .ipynb, .otl and vimoutliner files.
- Many new and improved commands, plugins and scripts.
- Dozens of bug fixes and code-level improvements.

Links:
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Leo:       http://leoeditor.com
Docs:      http://leoeditor.com/leo_toc.html
Tutorials: http://leoeditor.com/tutorial.html
Forum:     http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor
Download:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/
Bzr:       http://code.launchpad.net/leo-editor/
Quotes:    http://leoeditor.com/testimonials.html

Leo 4.11b1 released

Leo 4.11 b1 is now available at: https://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/Leo/4.11-b1/
Leo 4.11 contains over a year's work on Leo.

Leo is a PIM, an IDE and an outliner for programmers, authors and web
designers. Leo's unique features organize data in a revolutionary way.
See http://leoeditor.com/tutorial.html

The highlights of Leo 4.11:
---------------------------

- Leo's tutorials have been rewritten and simplified.
- Greatly improved abbreviations, including templates.
- Clones are now valid anywhere in @file nodes.
- Leo now warns if a .leo file is open elsewhere.
- Leo's IPython bridge now works with IPython 1.x.
- Added support for @testsetup and @testclass.
- Added support for sessions.
- Added colorizing themes.
- A colored border highlights the pane with focus.
- Added support for the clojure, markdown and TypeScript languages.
- Added importers for .ipynb, .otl and vimoutliner files.
- Many new and improved commands, plugins and scripts.
- Dozens of bug fixes and code-level improvements.

Links:
------
Leo:       http://leoeditor.com
Docs:      http://leoeditor.com/leo_toc.html
Tutorials: http://leoeditor.com/tutorial.html
Forum:     http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor
Download:  http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/files/
Bzr:       http://code.launchpad.net/leo-editor/
Quotes:    http://leoeditor.com/testimonials.html







Edward

Obama takes "full responsibility" for spying on virtually everyone?

Here's how the President can truly take full responsibility for the spying mess: grant Edward Snowden a full pardon for all acts committed to date.  Nothing else will convince me his words aren't empty.

The Guardian's NSA Files

Read the articles on the Guardian's NSA Files page to find out exactly how much privacy you have.  The answer is none whatsoever.

A letter to Nature

Here is a letter I have just sent to Nature.

You have done a disservice to your readers with Professor Juma's review of Brian Arthur's book in Nature 499, 150–153 (11 July 2013). The Nature of Technology is risible twaddle, and should not have been promoted in Nature.

The review states: "This is an antidote to pessimism that belongs with the works of Joseph Schumpeter, Thomas Kuhn and Ilya Prigogine. It has universal appeal as a source of insight into how creativity can solve our most pressing economic, social and environmental challenges."

A more thoroughly misleading book review can hardly be imagined.  In fact, the book discusses none of the world's economic, social and environmental challenges, and has nothing of value to say on *any* topic. Placing this author on a par with Thomas Kuhn is a very bad joke.

You owe it to your readers to do at least minimal checking of the appropriateness of the books you review, and the basic honesty of the your reviewers.

Let's put tobacco and terrorism in perspective

According to the CDC (Centers for disease control and prevention):

"More deaths are caused each year by tobacco use than by all deaths from human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders combined."

And the big bugaboo, terrorism, doesn't make any part of this list.

Wow: the history of the D-Wave quantum computer

This video has totally changed my perception of the state of quantum computing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptuFckypqzE