Ben Goldacre: Predictions are fine, but there are better ways to protect a population - Italy has always been a bit odd (I mean, they have a press clown as president and this strange Catholic mini-state with a ruler who claims absolute authority). And this mini-state has a long tradition of suing (and convicting) scientists. It probably shouldn't surprise anyone if seismologists are now being put on trial for manslaughter because they didn't predict an earthquake. And this is part of the EU ...
Archive 20. June 2010
iOS 4 walkthrough | TiPb - hopefully you can finally enable and disable Spellcheck (which works quite well on the iPad) and Autocorrect (which still has this pathetic "space accepts the suggestion" behavior) separately in iOS 4. Because you actually want to have Spellcheck, but as long as Apple retains this stupid Autocorrect and ties the Spellcheck to it, you can forget about it completely.
PyFilesystem 0.3 released - looks interesting, filesystems in and with Python. You can write FUSE filesystems in Python or simply access Amazon S3 or FTP with the same code.