Archive 25. October 2004

A party where everyone can become anything

At least the fact that they want to wall off Düsseldorf and Cologne I consider an exceedingly sensible measure. Actually, you could fence in the entire Rhineland. As far as I'm concerned, they could even charge admission during carnival season.

Teufelsgrinsen

The original article is available at WDR.de.

Fred Miranda Releases Velvia Vision Plug-in

Sounds quite interesting. Sure, you can do all of it by hand if you know how. But not everyone feels like figuring it all out themselves - a plugin like that is pretty handy. And Fred produces quite decent plugins - his Stair Interpolation is still one of the best upsizing tools.

You can find the original article at PhotographyBLOG.

James Tauber : Cleese

A project that wants to build an operating system on Python. Launch the Python environment directly from the bootloader and from there on program everything in Python. Funny idea. And why not - Lisp machines were also practical devices, Java machines exist by now, Native Oberon has been around for a long time - a native Python would be exactly the right thing.

Here's the original article.

Stuttgart: State Minister Slaps Party Colleague

I'm certainly in favor of corporal punishment for politicians: but it should only be administered by voters. Otherwise, I've always been of the opinion that Southern Italy begins below Frankfurt and therefore Italian conditions in state parliaments down there are completely normal.

At tagesschau.de - The ARD News you can find the original article.