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.
Linkblog - 7.7.2009 - 7.8.2009
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.
WPS: PostScript for the Web - crazy.
Discworld Cake - Terry Prattchett would be SO proud!
Flickr: Boy Obsolete's Photostream - Drawings on coffee cups.
There’s No App for That « Riverturn Blog and Talk Back - one of the reasons why I did not renew my iPhone developer account. Because even if I ever wanted to put one of my little hacks into the App Store, the way Apple treats iPhone developers makes me sick. I have no desire to deal with such nonsense, there are definitely more interesting things to do.
fabricate - a very interesting make tool in Python that automatically finds module dependencies in a language-independent way.
Ricoh GR Digital III Announced - sounds like a sensible product maintenance of the GRD from the GRD II. However, I don't know if it's worth switching - you first have to see the results. 3/4 stop more light alone is not so exciting (the change from 2.4 to 1.9), but the better display, for example, would be exciting.
Welcome to Self — Self - the power of simplicity - I must have had this before, but here it is fresh again, because there's a lot of action at Self lately. The new versions for the Mac are particularly charming (even if they don't behave like Mac programs at all). However, due to the crappy keyboard code, it's not usable with non-US keyboards - apart from clicking around and looking, not much is possible, you can't even get square brackets or pipe symbols or similar ...
Olympus E-P1 hands-on impressions - and this was one of the main reasons for me to put the E-P1 aside for now - at least as the sole Micro-4/3 camera. I had the impression more often that his assessments of cameras pretty much match mine. (and for those wondering: yes, the GH1 is comparable in terms of noise, but there were other reasons for the GH1 - 4/3 is better than a super-zoom compact in any case, and I need something as compact as possible with a lot of focal length for the vacation)
RubyFrontier Documentation - worth a look, might eventually renovate my nanoblogger blog. Found on Schockwelle.
The Online Photographer: Olympus E-P1 PEN Review - I'm out of the running with this camera (the Lumix GH1 is the one for me), but maybe it might interest one or two others. However, I do find it a shame that Olympus has once again delivered a compromise device, where some of the compromises didn't have to be.
wxMaxima - because there is a good OS X version. Thanks to the Schockwellenreiter for the link.
CAS | Jasig Community - SSO server with plugin structure for authentication and a wide range of client libraries.
Franke & Heidecke to close - ouch. Just found out. No more Rollei cameras. After the Samsung buyback, there were still hopes, but that's it then.
pam_python - write PAM modules in Python - not entirely uncool for coupling various systems for authentication.
Python PAM - this is a PAM client in Python that can access a PAM infrastructure.
SSO free of charge - Article on how to use CAS.
Toolserver Framework for Python - so I don't lose the slide deck again (Oldie, but Goldie), here's the link again. Menno, 2004! That's the Stone Age!
Amazon deletes purchased Kindle eBooks - a good example of why online DRM is even more disgusting than the already stupid offline DRM. And why all the talk from Amazon about "super customer-friendly" is just talk.
C/Y Adapter für 4/3 - and remember this one too, because with the 4/3-to-Micro 4/3 adapter, I could then attach my GH1 to my Contax macro equipment. Much more comfortable than with the Canon at the moment, just because of the live view and the movable screen of the GH1.
Lumix Digital Cameras - G Micro System - H-F007014 - oh, so many toys and so little money ... (and a 20/1.7 is also already announced, that would also be very interesting)
Accessories Digital Cameras - Other - DMW-MA2M - ok, I'll probably only be able to afford that by Christmas because of the vacation, but I think it's planned then. On the one hand, I can use my super-nice 90/4 Elmar (which is of course beautifully small), on the other hand, I could get a decently bright lens that is still compatible. With bright 50mm lenses, manual focus is completely sufficient, and on the GH1 (that's the one I have) it would be a great combination. But I'll spend the vacation with the included rubber lens.
One bug to rule them all - JavaScript, cross-platform. Wow.
[pypy-dev] ANN: psyco V2 - Psyco is alive!
Tablet-Netbook from Asus for 450 Euros - doesn't sound so uninteresting. Could you also install OS X on it like the little 901?
django-queue-service - simple Queueing System based on Django. Could be very interesting for projects in the company.
GitX - a graphical interface for git on OS X. I'm actually a Mercurial fan, but for some things git is quite practical (better support for binary data, for example).
Google veröffentlicht freien NX-Server - interestingly, some parts are written in Python!
jQuery Visualize Plugin: Accessible Charts & Graphs from Table Elements using HTML 5 Canvas - ok, das ist definitiv cool.
MetaPython Documentation - hadn't I seen that before? Never mind. Hygienic Compile-Time Macros. For Python.
pudb 0.92.2 - Console debugger for Python. Looks quite nice.
robey's kestrel at master - loosely ordered, reliable message queueing. In Scala. Sounds very interesting, could be useful for some projects, especially since it simply uses the memcache protocol for access, so many clients for various languages are already available. Scala and its ecosystem of projects is becoming increasingly interesting to me.
simple-build-tool - an interesting build tool for Scala that doesn't rely on XML orgies. I find Maven somehow terrifyingly monstrous - and quite honestly, editing XML files I consider an imposition.
SUMMON: visualization prototyping and scripting - maybe for the rider of the shockwave. Data visualization in Python. With OpenGL.
Judgment: DSL-Sharing via WLAN violates competition law - well, that should probably be the end of FON in Germany (at least if the judgment holds). Well, it never really took off here anyway.
MS Lofoten - starting from August 19th, I will be sailing with the ship up and down the entire Norwegian coast!
Coffee reverses Alzheimer's - well, that will surely please the rider of the shockwave ...