Bitcoin, Shitcoin (cont’d).

Bitcoin Is Broken.

Ignoring the SEO mumbojumbo I at least learned that Google+ is Google.

Mass Killings Can Haunt Elephants for Decades.

“The question is not, ‘Can they reason?’ nor, ‘Can they talk?’ but ‘Can they suffer?’ ― Jeremy Bentham.

How to run loggerhead via WSGI and Apache 2.4.

I did not find a complete instructional for doing this so I wrote down what I had to do to make it work on the “saucy” Ubuntu (13.10).

1. Copied the file /usr/share/doc/loggerhead/examples/apache-loggerhead.conf to /etc/apache2/config-available/loggerhead.conf
2. Modified the following lines: WSGIDaemonProcess loggerhead user=www-data group=www-data maximum-requests=1000 display-name=loggerhead processes=4 threads=1 WSGISocketPrefix /var/run/apache
3. Enabled the configuration by a2enconf loggerhead
4. Copied the file /usr/share/doc/loggerhead/examples/bazaar.conf to /var/www/.bazaar/bazaar.conf
5. Created the directory /var/cache/loggerhead and changed access permissions by chown www-data:www-data /var/cache/loggerhead
6. Disabled the loggerhead upstart service by echo 'manual' >> /etc/init/loggerhead.override
7. Restarted Apache by service apache2 restart

Of course, you also need to adapt the URL and file paths to your Bazaar repositories according to your setup.

I wish I only had a glimpse of how Mike Bostock comes up with the formulas for something like this Epicyclic Gearing thingie…

It’s all about math, trigonometry and shitake (and SVG of course), I know, but still: how long does it take to find out how to describe not only one gear but three different gears with a few lines of code and some sine and cosine calculations?

Bitcoin, Shitcoin.

On the fact that Bitcoin has a Kill Switch; and how to disconnect it.

Chemtrails, Nazis auf dem Mond, Neuschwabenland, Hohlwelt uvam. Irre!

Selten so gelacht: Die Mondverschwörung.

Motorola announces Project Ara, an open hardware platform with modular components à la Phonebloks. (Via reddit.com.)

StopWatching.us “fatally compromised by the prominent leadership and participation of the Libertarian Party and other libertarian student groups [who stand] in direct opposition to almost everything I believe in as a social democrat.”

“As consumers, we should understand ad-avoidance as a way of setting a price on our time and attention. For the past century, we’ve arguably been selling it too cheap, trading it all for a few decent sitcoms and sports programming.”