Breadpig Blog: Purveyor & Publisher of All Things Geek — Not Being Evil

The reddit community decided that a good way to drive the point home would be to launch the largest Donors Choose fundraiser ever - something breadpig needed to be a part of.

Exploding Marmalade plastered our porcine hero on the side of their car in exchange for some moral support and a donation to Mercy Corps. We were thrilled to oblige on both counts.

2009 was a very good year for Breadpig and thus a very good year for our partner non-profits, Room to Read in particular, thanks to the success of xkcd: volume 0.

With over 25,000 copies of xkcd: volume 0 sold so far, breadpig is thrilled to announce that the xkcd school is complete! Thanks to all of you who helped get us here.

Steve and I had the privilege of giving a keynote at last year's PyCon. Watch the video [steal slides here] for Steve's gripping account of the switch from Lisp to Python, see him artfully respond to questions about why reddit's search is so unsatisfying, and hear me get asked if I'll sponsor PyCon the following year (it's near the end of Q&A, when the audience decides to give Steve a respite). I said yes, albeit while put on the spot, but it was a "yes" nonetheless. I aspire to be a man of my word, so if you're attending PyCon...