Federal Border Guard will soon be called Federal Police - wasn't there something about a ban on a federal police force for Germany? Anyway, this last line of shame is also falling.

Photos of torturing soldiers in Iraq shock the British - but will they tell their Prime Minister what they think because of it? And more importantly: will Blair finally distance himself from this madness? Or at least learn from it for the future and not participate in the Iran madness that is slowly emerging among the Americans?

Apparently stricter penalties for tailgaters planned - I think that's urgently needed too. I get upset every time we're on the motorway. It's crazy what some people allow themselves behind the wheel... (and no, we're neither chronic left-lane drivers nor slow crawlers)

Secure and anonymous on the Internet with proxies - Guide to using Privoxy and tor. I hadn't linked it here somehow. It's so good, you should read it. You won't become any dumber from it.

LynuxWorks Introduces First User-Mode Linux Software for Apple PowerPC G5 Based on the Linux 2.6 Kernel - this now makes it possible to build logically separated virtual environments under Linux on PPC machines as well.

MathWorld News: The Mathematics of Tsunamis - interesting (I think) explanation of tsunami wave development. Found in zeitwissen:log.

Candidate for the award of the most absurd WordPress plugin: a Code39 barcode generator. Well, maybe then people who print out websites can actually do something with it.

Development of the Aqua variant of OpenOffice for Macintosh discontinued - a shame. Ok, NeoOffice/J is a usable alternative but still, a fully native OpenOffice version would have been something.

After successful search in Moshammer case: Call for expansion of DNA analysis - wdr.de - Panorama - and Pandora's box opens wider and wider.

ChapterZero » IllustRender - you can also take the previous approach to extremes with LaTeX: this one even embeds graphics via Ghostscript ...

Lock against Raab: Account blocked, bailiff ordered - that's how you have to deal with Raab

Using LaTeX in WordPress » LatexRender as a plugin - yes, it is what you would expect: an integration of LaTeX into WordPress. Weird.

heise online - Huygens Countdown: The day after - the first color image (ok, still quite monochrome despite the color) and a recording of the wind noise on Titan. Unfortunately, the server with the sound is currently overloaded.

Why Martin Schwimmer from the Trademark Blog on Bloglines asked Bloglines to remove his feed from their service - fits with the IzyNews discussion.

Morganically Grown » MiniPosts Plugin for WordPress - a plugin for blogmarks - these small titleless postings. I still make those with a patched template and my own category.

no status quo » RunPHP WordPress Plugin executes PHP code directly in posts. This gives you something like < ?php echo "Macros"; ?> in WordPress.

PHP Markdown - newer version than in Wordpress CVS. But I've sworn off Markdown - the performance was sometimes absurdly high.

FBI versenkt 170 Mio Dollar Software Projekt - due to unexpected problems. Funny how problems in IT are still always unexpected...

heise online - Huygens Countdown +8h: But a few drops of bitterness after all

Damn, the weather forecast is cancelled ...

heise online - Neue Zürcher Zeitung digitizes all volumes since 1780 - somehow cool. Even cooler if the results were made freely accessible, I could imagine it being a fascinating information pool for historians.

Murder Investigation: Fashion Designer Moshammer is Dead | tagesschau.de

Why do I keep constantly reading "fashion investigations" instead?

PECL :: Package :: APC - PHP caching system, Open Source (no weird stunts like phpAccelerator and not as dead as turck mmCache)

Raumsonde «Huygens» sendet Daten - Yeah!

SURBL -- Spam URI Realtime Blocklists - Real-time blocking list that can check hostnames from URLs.

Appropriately, the Federal Court of Justice says it also doesn't think much of secret paternity tests. At least in court, they are not admissible as evidence.

Another sensible ruling!

Second p0st: cElementTree now has a C variant to speed up execution. This makes it a real alternative to other DOM implementations.

symbolics.com is the oldest still registered domain. Very cool. By the way, I have a Symbolics sitting in my room.

A list of domain registries for various top-level domains is something I've been looking for for a while, and now I've found one. It also appears to be complete. So if you're looking for exotic spoiler domains, you might find what you're looking for there.

Canned !! -- my Atropine » iG:Syntax Hiliter - and here's another WordPress plugin that uses Geshi right away.

GeSHi - Generic Syntax Highlighter :: Home - a syntax highlighter in PHP. I could use this if I post source code here...

sYp » Syntax Highlighting with Enscript in WordPress is another WordPress plugin that uses enscript for formatting here.

Validation of WordPress Postings and Comments - I should take a look at that. If you already have a validating blog, it should stay that way...

Plugins/Staticize « WordPress Codex - Mini guide to Staticize. Bookmarked only so I can find it again with mfunc.

Aquarium - Web framework with MVC approach in Python - comparable to Rails?

Borges Home - Continuation-based web framework for Ruby

BottomFeeder - Cross-platform RSS/Atom News Aggregator - Aggregator in Smalltalk

Glorp.org - Object-Relational Mapping for Smalltalk

appscript - Use Python as a replacement for AppleScript - full AppleEvent and OSA integration

CincomSmalltalkWiki: Seaside Tutorial - Seaside is a continuation-based web framework

Impostor - Continuation-based web applications with Python

Lisa Apps - Apple Lisa Downloads - remember if I ever get my hands on one

Revision 8033: /user/arigo/greenlet - Minimalistic threads (tasklets as in Stackless Python) as a normal Python C module

VisualWorks: StORE for PostgreSQL Documentation - PostgreSQL as a versioning repository for VisualWorks Smalltalk

PNGCRUSH - Small command-line tool for optimizing the size of PNGs

ASPN : Python Cookbook : A meta-class that provides class behavior like Ruby - Class overloading (definition of new methods) with Python in Ruby style

Gus Mueller's Website - Writing VooDooPad Plugins with Python and PyOBJC

recondite: You don't tug on Superman's cape... - Python zur virtuellen Maschine von VisualWorks Smalltalk compilieren

Logilab.org - Aspects documentation - AOP for Python

TVO: The Vim Outliner - an outliner in VIM macro language