Science & Code

• Felix February 27, 2009

  Röyksopp, awesome!

  General

  
  Happy Up Here from Röyksopp on Vimeo.

  I swear, you won’t get this song out of your head for DAYS.

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• Felix February 24, 2009

  Freaktacular

  General, Paranoia

  Since my childhood I had a passion for weird-ass creatures, like bug-eating plants (I owned several venus fly-traps, Nepenthes and Pinguicula. Sadly none of them lived very long) or spiders. But due to the blessings of the interwebs, I have broadened my horizon since — in favor for even weirder critters!
  Here’s my rundown of freaktacularly scary videos that I would have died for as a child:

  WTFish

  You say fish ain’t scary? Well, in your sissy, knee-high water world probably not, but wait ‘til you get deep enough! Everyone knows the poster-childs of the deep sea, dumb looking tubes with fins on one end and hideous jaws on the other, sometimes adorned by a cute glowing lantern. But what about the jelly headed barrel eye¹?

  Seriously, those 180°+ eyes look directly into your soul!

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  1. The mean kids in his class called him testy-eyes [↩]
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• Felix February 22, 2009

  “Invalid Python installation”

  Code, General

  I’m kind of a n00b when it comes to Linux, so this might seem trivial for some — I’m going to note it here anyway, so that my dear co-n00bs may profit from it.

  Being in love with python, I tried to install pycallgraph to solve performance issues with some scripts (as a very visually oriented person I really prefer to have a nice illustration instead of some cryptic ascii-output). But whatever I tried (rpm, install from scratch, python eggs), it always resulted in the following error:
  “error: invalid Python installation: unable to open /usr/lib/python2.5/config/Makefile (No such file or directory)”

  The solution was awfully simple (and my n00biness has decreased a little as I learn fast from embarrassment): simply installing the development packets (DOH!) for python did the trick. And look at this callgraph:
  
   Awesome!

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• Felix February 19, 2009

  “Error 1004: Namespace…”

  Code, Tutorial

  I currently work on a rather large AS3-project and therefore embraced then newly introduced namespace-concept, especially since I try to stick to a MVC-architecture. Without namespaces, many classes would have to be in the same package (which clutters them unnecessarily) or expose members / methods as public (which throws all the achievements of the OOP-paradigm out of the window). But namespaces solve that gracefully! Well, if they work, anyway.

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• Felix February 17, 2009

  Watch banana-guy being thick

  Culture, Science

  I just found this gem via the Atheist Media Blog — be advised, this is painful to watch:
  

  Phew, that’s a lot of bullshit crammed into nine minutes! I was especially dumbstruck by his “evolution of a female counterpart”. Not that I haven’t heard it already: the same ‘argument’ can be found on his blog “Atheist Central”. But until now I sincerely believed that this blog is some kind of honey-pot, a place where he can harvest aggressive or ignorant comments from (supposed) atheists for his new book. (more…)

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