Archive 5. October 2005

Driving makes you stupid

Cycling makes you impotent, but driving makes you stupid: drivers in a traffic jam have repeatedly turned around on the highway on the Autobahn:

For the second time in a few days, drivers in NRW have turned around on the highway. Although Interior Minister Ingo Wolf (FDP) had announced an increased release of the emergency lanes, this may only be ordered by the police.

Of course, for drivers in NRW, this immediately means the green light for a brainless move. The only question is when the turnaround idiots will meet the idiots who consider an emergency lane as a race track to the front of the traffic jam ...

OpenMCL 1.0 is out - after quite a long time finally a decent version jump

Python Paste Power

Python Paste Power is a very interesting article about Python Paste, the metaframework by Ian Bicking. It makes the application and distribution of web applications in Python much easier (at least if the framework with which one wants to build the application has Paste support).