Archive 24. February 2006

Alleged Weather Manipulation?

Lightning strike reports alleged weather manipulation - Hoax? Joke? Or perhaps too much consumption of possibly not entirely legal means? The German Meteorological Society's information sheet also mentions this. So is there something to it after all? The report from Lightning strike sounds serious. Weather manipulation itself is indeed a real topic - and, for example, in the USA, it is indeed used in some areas, albeit on a relatively small scale (e.g., to activate weather fronts prematurely to avoid greater disadvantages for agriculture in certain regions). So should someone actually be experimenting with such things over Germany?

Democracy Player - an RSS aggregator that expects BitTorrent files in enclosures and automatically downloads them. Many features, essentially implements TV-on-Demand.

Google Macintosh Dashboard Widgets - what you see is what you get. Google Dashboard Widgets for Google.

Growl! - everyone knows it by now, visually appealing info windows, can also be used from scripts.

Live Thumbnails: Watch 'em Grow - interesting article about creating large images directly from thumbnails without changing pages. However, due to the invented attributes, it is not valid HTML4.

The Little Calculist: JavaScript language level - JavaScript as a language directly supported in DrScheme. This gives the brilliant tools of DrScheme for editing JavaScript as well.

Water: the structure and properties of liquid water - everything you want/should/know about water (yes, that H2O stuff).