Cython: C-Extensions for Python - successor to PyRex, a Python-like language for creating native code extensions for Python.
Linkblog - 6.11.2008 - 2.1.2009
Mobile Django Admin Patches - Shifting Bits by Patrick Altman - use Django Admin via iPhone. Nice feature.
DigitalSpace Traveler : Traveler - early virtual world with voice integration.
Improve Your Photo Booth With 90 Free Effects - pointless, but funny. The video effects also work with iChat video chats.
Raw Photo Processor (RPP) - sounds very interesting, I should check it out. Normally I am satisfied with Lightroom - and thus Adobe Camera Raw - but for some images one could invest a bit more energy and time and then this could be quite interesting.
uninformation.org: Arbeitswelt 2.0, or: The Dot-Com Death is Back! - just read it, just follow the links, just think about whether you shouldn't pay more attention to more solidity as an employee in the world of work.
ngPlant - Open Source plant modeling package - this one is for Blender. Looks very nice, but will I be able to get it to fly?
Tree making - with ngplant. Looks very interesting.
Yorik's blender greenhouse - lots of Blender models of plants. Also a good starting point if you need 2D alpha textures (like I do for SL).
Arbaro - tree generation for povray - can also generate .obj files. Could be quite useful for me, because I always need my own plant textures from time to time (and I can have them rendered by povray)
AUST TOMTREE - PovRay Macro Package for Trees (required by Pov-Tree)
MacMegaPov Index - good mac version of PovRay with small GUI for the parameters.
POV-Ray: Documentation - together with Arbaro, this gives me really nice trees and bushes!
POV-Tree - another tree generator. Free as in free beer. Also in Java. More focused on pure trees with fixed presets, not as algorithmically oriented as the previous one.
SuperColdMilk - tons of ac3d plugins.
Creating sculpties with Albatross3D - Exporter for Second Life Sculptmaps from Albatross3D.
Albatross3D - 3D modeler for Windows, Linux, and BeOS (no Mac). And free as in free beer. Although I'll probably stick with AC3D on the little Asus.
2,700-year-old marijuana found in Chinese tomb - Bill und Ted hatten doch ne Zeitmaschine?
IronClad - allows the use of CPython C extensions under IronPython.
Python-Ogre | High performance gaming and graphics library for Python - is becoming more and more complete and contains everything to build 3D games. I could also take a look at it.
Tutorial: Introduction to the Adobe Flex SDK - nice, especially since I'm still looking for a good introduction for Whirled, and the tutorial covers exactly the interesting part - how to connect media files with events.
VPython - had I already mentioned this? A small module for easy creation and manipulation (and display) of 3D objects.
C o r e P y : Synthetic Programming in Python - Generate machine code from Python for various processors. Potentially interesting for the places where you need maximum control and performance and Psyco and PyRex are not sufficient.
Rands In Repose: Dumbing Down the Cloud - interesting post about what Dropbox gets right. Dropbox is also one of the few cloud services that I really find useful and that will probably replace my iDisk syncing in the long run (simply because it's junk and doesn't work reliably).
Continue: Web Applications in PLT Scheme - and since I can't refer to Scheme without referring to the best Scheme environment of all time, here's a link to a tutorial on programming web applications with PLT Scheme.
JazzScheme - interesting "new" (not really, already 12 years old, but soon to be open source) Scheme environment. Unfortunately only X11 under OSX so far. But the GUI screenshots look very interesting.
Mankind's new best friend? - Rats against landmines and TB!
Molotov Alva - Movies completely created in Second Life - with an interesting story and by someone who knows how to make movies. Already from 2007, but still good (and yes, I once met Molotov Alva inworld).
arRsync - an Rsync GUI for Mac OS X - Title says it all. Addendum: the programmer was probably on drugs. You can't enter ssh servers or anything, only paths. What the hell is rsync good for local paths? The advantage of rsync is especially on network connections ... (oh, and no documentation and no status, unless you sacrifice an email address for "information about the new release")
duplicity - hmm. Could potentially be interesting to back up my server when I shut down the second one next month and instead back up to S3, for example.
IT-Gipfel: Vertrauenswürdige De-Mail von Innenministerium und Telekom - so the company that wants to put a trojan on every PC and the company that decided arbitrarily and unilaterally to tap phones that interest them, want to build a "trusted" email platform together. Did I get that right?
Mercurial hosting — bitbucket.org - might be quite interesting, simply because it offers simple and easy publishing of small projects. Essentially something like Flickr for projects (on Mercurial - for Git there's GitHub, but I just prefer Mercurial)
Modular camera with a 6 x 17 cm giant sensor - wow. That's finally a format!
Respectful Insolence: That'll teach 'em for using an actual valid placebo control - "Alas for poor Dr. Ng, he was tripped up by the vagaries of comparing two different (and almost certainly equal) placebos against each other. Do such studies long enough, and inevitably sometimes the "wrong" placebo will win. Science is like that."
Wikipedia shut down - great, another bunch of people (at least the member of parliament and the judge) who don't understand the internet. Couldn't the judges just burst out laughing when they receive requests to block wikipedia.de and fine the applicant for mocking the court?
I'm actually Knuth's homeboy on Flickr - damn, I'm jealous of such a photo.
ISS advises against using Trend Micro's ServerProtect - Security vulnerabilities in security software. Great job!
Microsoft explains seven-year patch delay - seven years. For a glaring hole. Great. Proprietary software is so damn secure because only professionals work on it and security is of course the highest priority. (and anyone who finds sarcasm in that sentence can keep it)
The world’s most super-designed data center – fit for a James Bond villain - now that's a data center after my own heart!
To WebKit or not to WebKit within your iPhone app? - interesting article about WebKit on the iPhone in your own applications.
Deutsche Bank sues Lehman Brothers - will Ackermann still sound so arrogant? But it's probably just peanuts anyway ...
The flying car - let's be honest: when I look at typical road behavior, I really don't want flying cars to be built someday ...
Train drivers jump from freight train - "Because the brakes of their freight train failed, two train drivers jumped from the moving train on Monday evening (10.11.08) in Frechen. The train only came to a stop several kilometers later when it crashed into a warehouse in Cologne." - please what?
CLPython - an implementation of Python in Common Lisp - I think I've already mentioned this, but good things are worth repeating. And they seem to have been busy - they're already very close to a Python 2.5 implementation. I really should play with this a bit, as it combines two of my favorite languages and could help solve one of the central CL problems: the rather meager selection of good (meaning currently maintained and combinable) libraries. But whether I can get it running on Allegro CL 3.01 on my EeePC is rather questionable. I fear that in the last 5 major releases, quite a bit has happened ...
CouchDBX Revival - CouchDB as an application under OS X (Leopard only).
Nagare - from the description it sounds a bit like Uncommon Web and Seaside (the two leading web frameworks for Common Lisp and Smalltalk). And it uses Stackless - in my opinion, Guido should have included Stackless on the roadmap for Python 3000.
The Picodore 64 - a Commodore 64 PDA - from a modified toy (there were two joysticks and obviously a racing game with built-in C64).
Fabric - interesting small tool for simplified deployment of software on clusters or distributed systems.
"Secure Identity = Unique Identity" - "He is convinced that citizens' informational self-determination can be better protected by new technologies, so one should not always see such systems as a threat scenario." - could it be because the protection of informational self-determination has no place at all in their entire presentation? Why is it repeatedly claimed without any basis that something protects informational self-determination, when there is no evidence or concrete example for this? A bit more care in lying would really be appropriate.