Archive 2. June 2008

Dive Into Greasemonkey - no idea if I already had it, but it was very helpful just now.

django-ae-utils - two interesting tools for Google AppEngine. One provides sessions based on the Google Store, the other a user management independent of Google Accounts.

flickrfs - funny FUSE filesystem in Python, which makes Flickr directly accessible via the file system. Might even run on the Mac, there is FUSE too. Might be worth taking a look.

Google is just playing - "«He just wants to play» dog owners often say when their animal obsessively runs towards a stranger, harasses, barks at, jumps on them, and generally restricts their freedom in a highly intrusive manner." - google, the Doberman Pinscher of the Internet.

goosh.org - the unofficial google shell. - nice hack. A shell interface in the web browser for google.

RetroShare: a secure combined file sharing-Chat-IM F2F service - sounds interesting in concept, would be fun to play around with it. Surveillance by the music industry currently carried out in other networks is of course circumvented - or at least massively hindered - via closed P2P networks, since you can explicitly define trust in partners (like in the PGP Web-of-Trust).

RWE to offer customers a pure nuclear power tariff - the power tariff for mental off-road drivers? Or just one of the dumbest PR actions of the year?