MS Lofoten - I will be on the ship from August 19 to 31 off the Norwegian coast. No updates. No internet (well, only emergency internet with extremely expensive mobile data roaming). In return, plenty of scenery and such.
Archive August 2009
"Arctic Sea" spotted off the coast of the Cape Verde Islands - the whole story is getting more and more confusing. There's definitely a movie in this!
django-jython - because I might be able to use it for a company project.
Python Library for Google Sets - I have no idea what I would want to do with it, but somehow it's cool.
Apple brings MacBook Pro 15" with matte display - oh, they must have accidentally found one of their usability experts in the basement again?
Artangel | SEIZURE - blue. Lots of it.
Comparing Mongo DB and Couch DB - interesting comparison between two of the more well-known document-oriented databases.
Chief of the Chancellor's Office demands "traffic rules on the Internet" - given the ongoing cease and desist madness on the Internet and the censorship efforts that have been going on for years (yes, not just since Zensursula, this has been happening in NRW for much longer), it is really hard for me to understand how the prolethicians in Berlin can still seriously claim that the Internet is "free" or even a "lawless space".
Braunschweiger Flashmob becomes a political issue - what kind of flashmob? It wasn't one even when no one knew - flashmobs with a notice period of several days? What? Has anyone ever thought about why the part "flash" is in the word flashmob? Do lightning strikes now announce themselves a week in advance and apply for the right to strike?
taz cancels Athletics World Championships - the modern German triathlon: surveillance, data collection, blocking.
WAZ welcomes Springer's push for paid content - well, if all the trash papers disappear behind the paywall, the internet will at least be a bit cleaner.
Zypries: Web blocks cannot be activated on a contractual basis - political summer theater. As if Zypries had any problems trampling our fundamental rights. The fact that the populism show was started by the Union without any value at all does not suit her.
Panasonic GF1 is leaked - new compact Micro Four Thirds camera - 1001 Noisy Cameras - yes, that sounds already pretty good. Let's see when details come out and how it performs in the test - if Panasonic transfers the experiences and techniques from the GH1/G1 there, it will be very interesting.
iPhone Dictionary, Censored by Apple - "The list of omitted words includes some which have utterly non-objectionable senses: ass, snatch, pussy, cock, and even screw. (Ass and cock appear throughout the King James Bible.)" - according to Apple, there can be no male chickens and screws are also evil. And donkeys too (yes, "ass" is a word for donkey). Because, dictionaries with bad words have to be censored and put under the 17+ rating! Where would we end up if children actually used dictionaries! Unthinkable! Somehow, Apple is increasingly showing itself to be completely incapable of running something like the App Store. They want to force you to buy another phone instead of the iPhone.
gitit - actually a quite simple idea: a wiki that is based directly on a version control system and works only with text formats. By using Git or Darcs, distributed collaboration on a shared wiki becomes possible. Or staging of content. Or many other things that only become possible through real version control.
Human Dominos - interesting project, human photo dominoes. I am one of them!
MongoDB - keep an eye on this one, of the NoSQL databases this is one of the more interesting.
NoSQL: If Only It Was That Easy - interesting overview of existing NoSQL storages from the perspective of scaling.
PawelPacana/MercurialBackend/Configuration - MoinMoin - and apparently there is a Mercurial backend for MoinMoin, which makes sense as both are written in Python. That would be interesting, MoinMoin is already quite interesting on its own and Mercurial is my favorite version control software.
up and running with cassandra - and an article about a second quite interesting NoSQL database. In this case, particularly interesting is the high and simple scalability.
ADC—Developing Cocoa Applications Using MacRuby - nice little tutorial for the new Ruby version from Apple.
FRANK BUCHWALD Maschinenleuchten - beautiful lamps. Unfortunately, there are no prices on them (or fortunately - I would probably fall off my chair ...)
Human Powered Monorail Racetrack - crazy
MacRuby » Home - hadn't I seen that before? Never mind. Ruby implementation based on the Objective-C runtime. It already looks very good (see also the previous tutorial) and it's definitely more fun than Objective-C.
Von der Leyen wants to tackle right-wing content on the net - nonsense from Berlin. The opponents of the ineffective Trivial Blockade have indeed recipes against child pornography on the internet, as Alwar Freude has proven with his "Now let's write to the providers and take sites offline". But concrete activities are not compatible with the populism program of a learning-resistant incompetence (some call it also Federal Minister).
Masters of Photography - I should add Cologne to my list of travel destinations for the near future. It would be great for a nice Sunday.