This week’s issue is shorter than usual since I spent 4 days in Helsinki to attend Frozen Rails and then had to prepare my talk for Linuxwochenende 2011. I also had to deal with a non-functioning hard-disk in my MacBook Pro, it still remains to be seen if the disk failed or if it’s just the SATA cable.

• Running a startup on Haskell
  Unfortunately the slides are missing some bits that were in the actual talk, but they are still interesting.
• The case of the 500-mile email
  An old story by now that’s been posted all over the interent, but still a good piece of sysadmin lore.
• Defending jobs
  Of the world’s 10 biggest employers, 7 are state run.
• Lost: Wired’s Guide to Pop Culture’s Buried Treasure
  No matter if it’s movies, TV shows, music albums or video games, some of pop cultures greatest treasures seem to be lost forever.
• The Rust Programming Language
  More slides from a presentation related to programming, this time on Mozilla’s new systems programming language Rust, which is starting to shape up.
• "Da bleibt mir die Spucke weg"
  An interview with SZ journalist Michael Frank about democracy and the political system in Austria (in German).