Monthly Archives: February 2012

Installing PIL on Mac 10.6

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Installing PIL on a Mac caused me about 50 minutes of headaches today, but it did make me 6000 yen.

(I tried installing through Brew but it didn’t work.  Might want to try that if your install fails)

Incidentally, if you are on a mac and cannot install PIL:
You need to set the GCC environmental variable.
sudo su
export ARCHFLAGS="-arch i386 -arch x86_64"
easy_install pip
pip install pil

Britannica vs. Wikipedia

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For the first time in about 15 years, I had the chance to check the Encyclopedia Britannica for an entry about a historical figure.

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/580776/Hippolyte-Taine

Compare this to the Wikipedia entry.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolyte_Taine

I can appreciate that Wikipedia may or may not distort the figure in question; however, at least I have something to go on. Britannica is just a disaster. Imagining a world without Wikipedia is, for the lack of a more descriptive term, depressing!