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AI can generate a lot of code. It cannot run your database responsibly.
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VST server in PD for FreeBSD
I'll definetly need to read Using VST/VSTi Plugins In Linux when I'll want to do the same for FreeBSD. Just reinstalling 5.3BETA3 on my laptop to make it my power music-station. Yeah, it's still the 400 Mhz thingy. 
SSH2 implementation in Python
Robotic Barkeeper
Paul Lamere can tell about a robotic barkeeper that will serve you a drink at a spoken request, and tell jokes while it's making them. 
I'm hoping that version two can juggle the bottles, make recommendations, improvise new drinks depending on the users, eh, customers mood and send drinks to the girl in that sparkling red top. And of course, I expect it to pass all sanetary tests. How often do you wash your hands, little robot?
Aborigines discovered America?
Did the first Americans come from Australia? Not through Sibir from Asia, not the Vikings with Leif Erikson and certainly not Columbus.
Rape of Kosovo
She cradled him to her chest, she looked into her boy's eyes, she stroked his face and she snapped his neck. This is The Observer writing on systematic rape in Kosovo where 4.4% of the female population were systematically raped during the Balkan war. This article is long and horrible in detail, is about the consequences and what was hushed down, and should definetly be read.
PHP regex problem
PHP allows the use of the PCRE library, but PHP5 comes with an interesting, undocumented twitch: You have to add -with-pcre-regex if you want to use preg_match(), a quite commonly used function. With PHP4, all you did was -with-pcre and you got the whole package, and the -with-pcre-regex is undocumented in the configure program of PHP5 which is where people look for this.
Change your hair
This hair styling test is great!
SMS-rally for the Beslan victims
An SMS rally in Norway that asked people to light a candle for the Beslan (Russia) victims led to the Red Cross being given one million norwegian crowns (Norwegian article). 1.050.000, really. 1.5 million SMS'es were sent, and Telenor, Norways biggest phone company, gives the surplus to the Red Cross, which in turn will send even more help to Beslan within this week. I received these SMS'es both in Norwegian and Danish, so perhaps this has happened other places in the world as well? More info in Norwegian here.
Quote Sony: No music for you
I wanted to try out Sony's online music store, but it seems it requires Explorer. Try this with Safari and feel the rejection. This is not the way to do business. My most recent experience with this is that I askes the Skype developers for beta access to their OS X software and they were making money of me in no time (and I'm dialling far more frequent to Norway now). How about that music, Sony?
Hard times for EU
The Observer has a good article on Europe reaching its crisis point