Cocoa on the web: 280 North, Objective-J, and Cappuccino - wow, someone has implemented Objective-C as a preprocessor and runtime in JavaScript and then ported Cocoa to JavaScript.
Archive 30. June 2008
NNDB Mapper: Tracking the entire world - interesting mapping tool that builds a "social network" of people of public interest based on publications, reports, and rumors and displays it graphically. Perfect fodder for conspiracy theorists!
Strange practice at mobile phone contract trading portal - "For example, a bank statement must be provided to prove the liquidity of the new customer." - eh, hello? Bank statements contain much more than just statements about liquidity. What a stupid idea is that? And probably the users will do the nonsense and obediently present their regular bookings to some stranger ...
Study: Smoking ban in England prevents 40,000 deaths - only here the downfall of the West is still predicted by the smoking ban.
Wee Westerns - Tabletop Western Photography. Fun!
WikidBASE - interesting mix of wiki and structured database. Found at Schockwellenreiter.