Ghent jazz festival last night, and i’m not at my freshest.
A few interesting links for this week …

Everyone’s raving about the 3G iPhone to the point of stupidity. Before you run to the nearest Apple Mobistar store to be trampled by hordes of frothing fans, consider this: an open source, open hardware (!) phone that has come out last week, and with much less ado: the Neo Freerunner. Nice, no?

Music links of the week: i’ve known radio Resonance for a while now – a maverick London radio playing the weirdest stuff. It ranges from experimental stuff someone made in his garden by beating together bits of wood, cambodjan music from the 20s, to golden oldies from forgotten times.

It turns out they’re not alone: if you want to broaden your musical horizons, and are tired of getting bored with the same old commercial stuff around the clock: WFMU. A user-funded radio – I’ve been told they raise money once a year. Their website gives access to (get this) comprehensive archives. Grassroot treasures like this help regain some faith in mankind (thanks Hendrik).

News that’s already a little bit old, but made me smile: Google being subponaed to deliver 12 Tb of data to Viacom. In paper format. *cough*

A last wee technical tip: i’m a big fan of REST – technique to use a certain type of expressive URL. Say http://myserver.com/users/tom/orders. What you don’t think about is that the data in question (tom) has to have URL-compatible format ! this means that you’re allowed alphabetical characters “-”, “.”,”_”,”~”. But woe upon you if that username contains an @ or an & (and yes, they exist)(ref).

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