Archive 22. August 2004

The Word for Monday

A very interesting interview with Norbert Blüm. My favorite quote from it: That reminds me of the fairy tale of the fisherman and his wife Ilsebill - the more she has, the more she wants. Apparently all their fuses have blown. They think the welfare state is now being auctioned off. First Geisler, now Blüm. With old Union politicians, reason seems to slowly be dawning. Unfortunately far too late - because during their active time in government, they did not stand up against neoliberal ideas and ultimately helped ensure that neoliberal ideas became firmly established in the Union, among other things (I'm thinking of something like the March Hare).

The SPD may still make excuses that adopting neoliberal ideas is necessary to survive in the political arena (which I personally think is complete nonsense). But what excuse does the Union have?

You don't need to ask the FDP for an excuse - they're completely burying their political ideas under the neoliberal dungheap...

I found the original article at Der Rollberg.

Flambéed Sapphire

Hmm. Is that Scotty's transparent aluminum now?

At Physikalische Kleinigkeiten there's the original article.

Paolo Amoroso: Update on McCLIM's Beagle backend

From the linked article, it emerges in passing that someone is working on a McCLIM backend for OpenMCL. Namely, building on Cocoa. That would really be amazing - a CLIM-based interface. Ok, that would be just a listener and some toy code for now, but in the long run perhaps the kind of tools you know from the old Lisp machines. At least something like that would be conceivable at all.

Besides, CLIM is a pretty cool GUI library with features that would make all the Java bells and whistles green with envy - even if CLIM is many years older

At Planet Lisp you'll find the original article.

Future EU Commissioner Made Bill Gates an Honorary Doctor

Independent and neutral ...

At heise online news there is the original article.