Is there anything new to the site? Or why is it up here?

If you'd prefer the material in print, Doug has written The Python Standard Library by Example.

http://www.doughellmann.com/books/byexample/

In slightly similar news, the second issue of Golang-Weekly is out:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/golang-weekly/uDITHQVeKdY/...

Is there something similar for Ruby gems?

ironically, the last time this site was updated was about 2 months ago....