Archive 25. May 2011

MS Optical Super Triplet Perar 3.5/35 Mark II. A reissue of an exotic lens for Leica M - this time with direct M-mount, no more screw mount with adapter. It would indeed tempt me, but I already have a 35mm and with the Zeiss C-Biogon, the triplet can't really compete. The compactness of the lens is great, though. I hope the 200-unit production run sells out quickly, so I won't be tempted anymore.

Zotonic - Hmm, should I take a look at this? A CMS in Erlang that has some interesting features on the list - and aims a bit in the direction that Drupal also has, i.e. rather a CMS construction kit than a pure pre-made blogging solution. The admin interface also looks quite tidy.

hij1nx/SugarSkull - GitHub. Because I recently had single-page JavaScript apps (an example of this type of application would be TiddlyWiki): this is a simple library with no prerequisites, with which you can build simple parsing and automatic function start for hash-routes. So basically something like the Django URL Handler, but in JavaScript and purely on the client.

Seesaw - GitHub. Since GUI programming almost always annoys me, this is quite interesting: a Clojure library that brings Swing into a much more compact form. So that you don't have to write your fingers raw for simple GUIs. And since MCL-IDE now also supports Clojure, it might actually be time to take a closer look at the whole thing.

Tequila Suicide | Blogrebellen Kreuzberg. It's so stupid that it couldn't be more stupid (and only insurance agents could be so dumb to actually try it, so Ergo is almost believable). And well, at the Blogrebellen there's also a funny comic about it.