Correcting myths from Bjørn Lomborg
A collection of links to Bjørn Lomborg's book The Sceptical Environmentalist. This appears to be a fairly useful link collection that presents a wide range of opposing views. Here's the original article.
Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form
hobbythek - Fragrances of the Orient: Frankincense and Myrrh
hobbythek - Fragrances of the Orient: Incense and Myrrh
Myrrh is an ancient remedy for inflammations in the mouth and throat.
IGM - Mac OS Flight Sim Resource
A website dedicated to flight simulators for Mac OS X. A bunch of links and info on the topic. Unfortunately, it stops with news in 2001, so they're more like olds. Is there anything newer on the subject?
Medicine-Worldwide: Salivary Gland Inflammation, Salivary Stone
Medicine-Worldwide: Speicheldrüsen-Entzündung, Speichelstein - More about salivary gland stones
OpenMCL
OpenMCL - Powerful Common Lisp with native code compiler for Macintosh and Linux PPC under GPL
Polaroid Dust & Scratch Removal
Polaroid Dust & Scratch Removal - Excellent software for removing scratches and dust streaks from scans.
Scientific American: A Response to Lomborg''s Rebuttal
And another thing about Lomborg: here is Scientific American's response to criticism of their issue that dealt with Lomborg's theses. As for the status of Lomborg's book: Many people claim to have scientific arguments when they do not: creationists, ancient astronaut theorists and the like. Being able to cite the scientific literature does not automatically confer validity on one's argument, nor does it make the argument genuinely scientific.
Salivary Stones
There are more pleasant problems to have. Really.
Salivary Stones
Speichelsteine - Removal of salivary stones through fragmentation
Stereo-Photography in Medium Format
Interesting pages about camera technology for making medium format stereo images. Price-wise, though, it's a bit more hefty than with 35mm film.
Christmas hat trade ...
... organized and firmly in the hands of Rotterdam. It was on TV, so it must be true. I always knew there had to be a mafia behind it. Surely also behind these blinking pins, the climbing, fat Santa figures and similar atrocities. The Christmas mafia. Organized crime against good taste. And the Dutch are to blame. How perfectly it all fits together.
Out with the old, in with the expensive
And once again an opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry to rip off the health system and patients.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Making Music
Musizieren - Making music in a rental apartment - what is allowed?
freshmeat.net: Project details for PostgreSQL Log Analyzer
freshmeat.net: Project details for PostgreSQL Log Analyzer - Log file analysis including statement statistics for PostgreSQL
Fujifilm''s 20 megapixels, at a price: Digital Photography Review
20 megapixels - not bad. The sensor size is also great at 5.2x3.7cm. Ok, that's still quite far from full frame (even medium format APS is 6x4.5cm), but already pretty nice. But 2.4 million yen is quite steep - after all, almost 18,000 euros.
Lost Highway
Currently running on 3sat. Honestly: a film that can afford to waste the first 15 minutes on almost no activity, go round in circles three times, bite its own tail, and end with the same sentence it begins with — I just have to like that.
News: USA ban Linux exports to Iraq
The Americans and the missing ground contact ...
Ticker: Mars Express - wdr.de - Research
Do you know what's fascinating about the ticker? That it runs on a blogging platform, apparently with a userland tool, I'd guess Manila (or Radio on a Manila server). Didn't even know that WDR has blogs too. As a result, for example, there's an RSS feed and even a blogroll (though they only subscribed to themselves). Here's the original article.
welcome to macscripter.net | applescript and script resource
welcome to macscripter.net | applescript and script resource - AppleEvent Monitor for debugging AppleScript and other program connections
Apple releases Battery Update 1.1 for portables
Weird. Software patches for a battery? Well, nothing surprises me anymore ...
At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.
Concurrent Versions Librarian
Concurrent Versions Librarian - CVS interface for OS X
Errico Malatesta
Errico Malatesta - Background on one of the most well-known Italian anarchists
Examples of Complex Rendering
Examples of Complex Rendering - Diacritic Placements - also combined characters - in fonts
HyperNext Home
HyperNext Home - HyperCard clone for Mac OS X
MacOS X Smalltalk
MacOS X Smalltalk - A new Smalltalk for Mac OS X Native
ASPN : Python Cookbook : Complex Boolean Regular Expression Class
ASPN : Python Cookbook : Complex Boolean Regular Expression Class - A class for regular expressions that can be combined with boolean expressions
ASPN : Python Cookbook : Length-limited O(1) LRU Cache implementation
ASPN : Python Cookbook : Length-limited O(1) LRU Cache implementation - LRU implementation as a Python class
The Euro is Too Expensive
Of course, politicians will then find excuses again why all of this allegedly isn't true at all. But in the end, there's always more month left than money...
I found the original article at Der Schockwellenreiter.
freshmeat.net: freshmeat - freshmeat XML-RPC API available
freshmeat.net: freshmeat - freshmeat XML-RPC API available - Freshmeat has an XML-RPC interface to access project data
Self-Employment: Living on Your Own Account
Very interesting analysis of what politicians like to present as freedom for citizens.
I found the original article at DIE ZEIT: Feuilleton.
LaunchBar for Mac OS X
LaunchBar for Mac OS X - Simple tool for launching documents via keyboard and GUI
NdisWrapper
NdisWrapper - Use NDIS network drivers under Linux
D-Link Deutschland GmbH - DBT-900AP
D-Link Deutschland GmbH - DBT-900AP - Bluetooth access point - unfortunately with security deficiencies according to Heise
Eastgate Tinderbox: the tool for notes
Eastgate Tinderbox: the tool for notes - Zettelkasten in combination with agents for organizing data
Final expulsion of Schill?
Great. A party is considering expelling its founder. Perhaps they shouldn't have founded themselves on the basis of this founder in the first place? Well, they'll sink into insignificance anyway after all this chaos now.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Demystifying Open Source Developer Myths
What bothers me about these increasingly frequent myth-debunking exercises: they always assume that every open source programmer is out to deliver production-quality code. But that's the biggest myth that all these analysts fall for. Most OSS programmers code on programs because they solve a problem they have. Or because they simply enjoy working on the topic. Or because existing solutions don't work the way they imagine them. So the reasons are usually quite selfish at first. In the process, the end user and other developers are inevitably ignored initially - and from these projects, larger projects may later develop. In rare cases does a project really start from scratch with the premise of delivering professional software. But it's this playfulness and egoism of OSS programmers that creates diversity. And of course, also chaos. Funnily enough, these same selfish programmers are extremely generous and eager to share, which is why larger projects can only emerge from these projects at all. But usually there's a selfish motive behind that too: the need for recognition. A key driver in OSS projects is the pursuit of fame.
By the way, I see the whole thing as absolutely not negative, quite the opposite. It's precisely what makes the OSS landscape so colorful and interesting. Ignoring projects that don't interest you is definitely easier than complaining that these developers should be working on other projects - after all, there are no obligations in OSS.
The jump to a major project often only happens through a broader user base, from which collaborators gradually recruit themselves. Nevertheless, many projects remain the personal projects of individual people for a long time - even if there's already a developer community. The Linux kernel is still Linus's project, which becomes apparent whenever he rejects maintainers, rips out subsystems, and unilaterally replaces them with other implementations. The question of why he can do that answers itself: it's his project, of course he can.
In many discussions about the advantages and disadvantages, it's repeatedly assumed that OSS projects are even comparable to commercially operated projects. They are - when there's a company with commercial interests behind the OSS project. But with pure OSS projects, factors are at play that can't be compared to anything commercial or semi-commercial. And these projects make up the majority of OSS.
Therefore, investigations of myths in OSS are often themselves falling for myths.
Get the scoop on.. Scoop! :: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com :: Open Source Software, Reviews & News
Get the scoop on.. Scoop! :: Open Source Directory :: OSDir.com :: Open Source Software, Reviews & News - Scoop Installation guide - Scoop is the CMS behind Kuro5hin
Kästner out of schools?
The madness continues. A teacher is being warned because he posted teaching materials online - which in this case included text passages from Kästner. I am certain that this use of Kästner's texts is entirely in keeping with the author's intentions. How low can heirs actually sink when they no longer accomplish anything of their own, except exploiting the achievements of an ancestor - and in a manner that would surely have provoked nothing but outrage and head-shaking from the author himself?
I found the original article on Kai Surendorf's blog.
PyObjC - Home
PyObjC - Home - Objective-C bridge for Python
The HarvestMan WebCrawler Robot
The HarvestMan WebCrawler Robot - Web crawler in Python - for example for your own search engine
Armstrong: Hot Flirtation with Sheryl Crow
As long as he makes way for another winner at the next tour, and as long as he doesn't start singing or acting, I don't care.
At RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - Nachrichten-Gesamtübersicht there's the original article.
Photography: Willem Wernsen - Weblog
A beautiful photo blog, unfortunately without an RSS feed. Ok, and in Dutch, but the images are understandable for everyone anyway. And simply beautiful.
GROKLAW - Documentation of Another SCO Linux Hacker
And another SCO programmer has contributed large patches to the kernel. Particularly interesting: this programmer worked on SMP code, that is, multiprocessor capability, one of the areas objected to by SCO. And he has been working on it since at least 1998 - before SCO was acquired and before IBM entered the kernel.
mDNkit installation guide
mDNkit installation guide - Patches for various programs to prepare them for multilingual domains
Media Revolution or Diaries
Witty, informative and useful article about weblogs in Telepolis. So now I'm traveling as a blogonaut through the blogosphere, that's good too. Beam me up, Scotty, there is no intelligent life down here At Telepolis News you can find the original article.
RFC 3492 - Punicode
RFC 3492 - Punicode - RFC for representing Unicode strings in domain names