A MacFUSE-Based Process File System for Mac OS X - quite nice. Very nice. procfs and its many variants are extremely practical for shell scripts that want to check something quickly. Good to have something like this as an option for OS X as well.
Archive 9. May 2007
Alligator Eggs! - by far the strangest explanation of the Lambda Calculus I have ever seen.
Erlang For The Practical Man - quick and dirty tutorial for a practical application (convert a POP3 mailbox to an RSS feed).
Drowning in a flood of data - “You can't prevent anything with such measures” - yes, another Spreeblick link. But really - read it. The interview is brilliant. "By the way: have you ever thought about the fact that one special aspect of suicide bombers is that they are rarely repeat offenders?"
Evolved Virtual Creatures - fascinating. Virtual creatures optimized through genetic algorithms.
Lambda Associates Home Page - Qi, a functional language based on Common Lisp. Freely available and runnable on various Lisp implementations.
Linuxtag with patron Wolfgang Schäuble - "As emphasized on the conference organization's website, the patronage by the Federal Ministry of the Interior is a tradition that has been maintained by the Linuxtag for five years. No political evaluation is associated with the patronage." - Sorry, but wouldn't it be time to break with tradition? First the Iron Otto and now Schäuble? Do you want such a patronage? What is the point of a patronage that one explicitly distances oneself from?
Philip Linden's Folly - about the current efforts of Linden Labs to equip Second Life with an ID verification system. Interesting for German citizens in SL: this service provider collects heaps of data pools, links these to obtain as complete views as possible and makes evaluations, data sales, verifications, etc. which is of course nonsense in the context of age verification: simply enter your father's data and that's it. As a security level, complete nonsense. Piquant: their partner in Great Britain is the GB Group with the product URU, which also offers these services and is subject to EU data protection rules - I can't imagine that it is still legal in this context. And that data is also collected from non-British and non-American citizens directly affects our data protection rules. It would be interesting to see how many Europeans and especially Germans are willing to send their passport number to an American service provider to gain extended access to a virtual world. I fear far too many ...
Reset Reloaded - an interesting approach to the CSS default differences of various browsers: simply reset everything cleanly, so that stylesheets can start on a common basis.
US civil rights activists accuse Uri Geller of copyright infringement - because, the spoon bending didn't work out.