Just the link color was borrowed from Twitter Bootstrap. Rest is pretty much white background, max-width, padding between <center> elements on the page, bigger line-height :)
If you send me the CSS (by comment or email from my profile), I know a few people that work at Goddard, and might have a better shot at getting them to add it :)
The adage should really be "Do what you love AND excel at". If the conversation you had with your wife about books you read was very interesting, you could film it, sell it (or more likely ads around it) and make it your job.
While some passions are easier to monetize then others if you are in the top 100 people that do it, there is a good chance someone will pay you for it.
I actually did a very similar test to this recently and got similar results (though mine was just between Go and Python)... in retrospect the reason is obvious: in python I was using python-cjson which is a heavily optimized C implementation of a json parser, while in Go I was using a 100% Go implementation.
In a certain way this shows nothing, since we all know C is fast. But in another way it convinced me that Python is actually fine for most of what I'm doing since it's easy to drop in to C for parts that need performance. And even more importantly there are often already already C libraries with python bindings that do the thing I'm looking for (ie parsing, numpy, etc).
That's the one people linked to before. But it forces you to pay by typing in your credit card, which has too much friction and most people will avoid. So it's not a good solution.
