Behavior Engineering - BE - AiS

Well, I don't know if I'm a tech heretic now, but I'd say that at a price of 3500 euros for a Volksbot, widespread adoption will be significantly difficult.

Here's the original article.

The Enemy of the Whole World

Just so you notice: some newspapers could learn a thing or two from the way Zeit does it. It's already pretty remarkable that under the official Zeit label, journalists and editors maintain weblogs.

And the fact that they can actually write is of course also a pretty nice thing.

At Beruf Terrorist The Enemy of all the World there's the original article.

GROKLAW - Novell still mixed up in it

Ok, that should have given SCO some heartburn: Novell is giving SCO an ultimatum to drop its interpretation of the restrictions on Sequent code (Dynix - one of the Unix derivatives that SCO views as problematic in its lawsuit against IBM, since code from it allegedly made its way into Linux). Novell's key argument is that the protection clause only applies to the original AT&T code and not to code that was newly added in Sequent. That of course directly undermines one of SCO's arguments. SCO's case is getting shakier and shakier.

Here's the original article.

Cabinet paves way for gene-modified food

And once again reason and common sense have to take a backseat to the purely monetary interests of large corporations (and not even necessarily domestic ones). To hell with the will of the citizens, the only thing that matters is the sound of cash registers ringing for con artists and fraudsters, no matter what kind of crap they're selling.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

European Capital of Culture 2010: "Münster makes it"

Sorry, folks, but Münster is just provincial. The State Museum for Archaeology is gone, the theater is provincial, the city's cultural funding can only be described as non-existent, and otherwise there's really nothing here about being a cultural capital. The application is ridiculous. Big talk and grand speeches, but nothing but hot air.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

OpenMCL 0.14.1 - now with Cocoa Bridge!

Finally, I've been waiting eagerly for this. OpenMCL now has a Cocoa bridge. This allows you to use Objective-C frameworks from Common Lisp. The advantage: virtually the entire OS X API (at least the part that came new with OS X) is now potentially available for Common Lisp. Integration with other Objective-C programs is also much easier. And there's finally a chance to develop a usable GUI via OpenMCL. There's also already documentation on Cocoa programming under OpenMCL. Here's the original article.

Workbench: Tuesday, February 10, 2004

Google appears to be in the process of removing support for RSS feeds from Blogger or at least restricting their use to users who have had an RSS feed for a longer time. New blogs will probably only be set up with Atom. What's the problem with that? Well, Atom is still only a 0.3 version - it's still in flux, still being discussed, and the format is far from complete. Why does a company jump on such a bandwagon, especially why does a company do this when they already have functioning infrastructure for RSS? One can really assume that Google (or rather the Blogger team) is trying to use their market position here to strengthen Atom against RSS.

Of course, this is particularly ridiculous from the perspective that there are currently significantly more RSS readers than Atom readers. Blogger's behavior is more than just impolite toward the existing community.

Here's the original article.