Airspeed - Trac - Compact template engine with Cheetah-like syntax
Archive 2. November 2004
ECL v0.9d released
ECL is a pretty nice Common Lisp - relatively fast and with the C compiler you can really get solid code. And the best part: it can be embedded in other programs. Common Lisp might be a bit overkill for a scripting language, but better to go big than small.
At Rainer Joswig's Lisp News you can find the original article.
Planet Planet! - Web-based aggregator in Python
Python ipqueue
Anyone who has always wanted to tinker with the TCP/IP stack in Linux, but doesn't like C and prefers to use Python instead: the linked project offers an elegant solution for that. It allows you to hook Python scripts into Linux's Netfilter. Transparent proxies and similar things can be accomplished with just a few lines of code.
Shrek II
I like DVDs where it's even worth letting the main menu run for a while
But the talent competition after the movie is just absolutely hilarious!
taz 3.11.04 X-Files in the Elbmarsch
In the end, the whole thing became a matter of faith, one that above all had to leave the nuclear-critical public bewildered. The citizens' initiative could only be trusted by those who believed in secret German nuclear tests, a covered-up accident, and numerous manipulated studies. Many things are possible, of course, but that doesn't make them probable. The cause of the leukemia cluster in Lower Saxony's Elbmarsch will probably remain unexplained forever. Yes, yes, all improbable and unproven and all that. But that doesn't make the children who have fallen ill with leukemia healthy and the dead alive again. But it's easier to portray critics as cranks and simply bury one's head in the sand. In a few years the problem will have solved itself biologically anyway, and then no one will care about it anymore.