Archive for January, 2010
A nice piece of art: A Tool To Deceive And Slaughter is a black box with an internet connection. Every time someone buys it, it seeks connection to the internet and after seven days places a bid on eBay for itself. [ READ MORE ]
For once a web app not done by me, although I did the single-sign-on in the back end. The Z@PPmixer is all new and improved. It’s a tool (FOR KIDS) to create online mashups of video, images and sound and share them with others. Top voted mixes are broadcast on national TV. [ READ MORE ]
I just donated €20 to Wikileaks. Wikileaks is a website that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive governmental, corporate, organizational, or religious documents, while attempting to preserve the anonymity and untraceability of its contributors. [ READ MORE ]
Strong words? Yes, indeed. Though I have the SMTP-headers to prove the fact that NS (Dutch Railways) actively hates their customers and wants to annoy them as much as possible. Case in point: e-mail newsletter. [ READ MORE ]
As much a brilliant idea as it is funny: the web 2.0 suicide machine. One click of a button removes you from many social networks, deletes your tweets, and erases your online presence. Since the Dutch “word of the year 2009″ is ontvrienden (unfriending) this kind of app just needed to be created. Now go [ READ MORE ]
For a long time I have been searching for built-in foreign keys in Ruby on Rails. For some reason, the core developers don’t think it’s particularly important. I don’t know why. I think foreign key constraints are absolutely essential, but who am I? [ READ MORE ]
I am sure many of you reading this have received Michael’s plea this morning as well. The original developer of the MySQL database is worried that his brain child will be terminated by its new owner Oracle. I think his worries are justified. He pleads for you to sign a petition to keep MySQL free. [ READ MORE ]
