"An Exotic Matter" - funny variation on the topic "Singularity".
Archive 6. June 2008
Anne against the political will - "Thus, the scandal surrounding Anne Will's show ultimately proves two political realities: The Left Party is continuing its successful course as a force of a bourgeois left. And the nerves of some representatives of former people's parties are on edge." - and beautifully shows the panic about the left in Germany.
Introducing Gmail Labs - Google keeps showing how to use the platform meaningfully. For example, now in GoogleMail with optionally activatable prerelease features. That's how I imagine it, with centrally operated software!
Government wants to hand over personal citizen data to the USA - "The Bundestag was not involved in the negotiations and was not informed, complain the Liberals. The federal government had not taken a position on the inquiry of the FDP in the interior committee and even denied the incident." - it's nice how we can rely on our government to betray and sell us, and completely ignore the Bundestag in the process. Especially piquant when it's about data that the federal government and its executing authorities shouldn't even have ...
Toy Scheme interpreter in J - looks like shell-script-meets-line-noise.
Future - nothing but a big fun | tagesschau.de - "Anyone who predicts the future for money or makes contact with the deceased must inform their customers beforehand that their services are 'solely for entertainment purposes and have not been experimentally proven so far'." - it would be good if this also applied to the various forecasting institutes!