Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional - Do ya feel lucky, punk?
Linkblog - 24.5.2007 - 6.6.2007
The contact lenses that could restore 20/20 vision - sounds interesting. Although I have been wearing my glasses for decades and they don't really bother me. Could I sleep with contact lenses?
3 awesome free Math programs - Short introductions to the major players in the open source environment.
A 10 minute tutorial for solving Math problems with Maxima - very interesting, Maxima seems to be much further along than when I first saw it.
Linux.com | Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG - could be interesting. However, I still don't like Firefox on the Mac - it's just not a Mac application in behavior.
MailTags - interesting plugin that allows you to tag emails (in Mail.app).
Pistol Shrimp - wow. 100km/h fast water, at 5000°C temperature (for a brief moment).
Relocating iTunes Music Libraries to Removable/External Storage Media - this might allow me to place my iTunes Library on the server and only keep a part on my local drive. However, I would then have to sort the music myself. Too bad iTunes can't simply mount remote libraries, then I could save myself the trouble and move rarely played songs to another library.
wxMaxima - a GUI for Maxima. Should also compile on OS X.
RTL won't let itself be copied - and here I am thinking: "You don't even want RTL's garbage for free" ...
TV Ad Sound Levels - why some ads sound louder than the program, even though they are not.
UBERWACH! - funny action. Turn the tables and monitor the monitors!
Google Gears for WebKit - an interesting approach to providing web applications locally. Basically just a smart cache, nothing more. But sometimes these low-tech approaches are simply the most efficient solutions. And nicely, they also have the whole thing ready for WebKit in the source - the downloads are only for the Mozilla family so far (and of course once again nothing for Camino).
HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc copyable again - Hare and Hedgehog.
Personal History: How I Spent the War - Günther Grass on his time in the Waffen SS.
trackback - commandline client for trackbacks.
Federal Council committees for clear expansion of telecommunications surveillance - because, the police state is not yet fully and perfectly established. I hear in the background the cool giggling of former Stasi officials. They are starting to feel quite at home.
Dumb, Dumber, Bush? Mooo! - "The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease."
Man described as a top spammer arrested - and now please get the others too.
Collecting Societies Criticize Commons Project as Copyright-Hostile - of course, works under CC licenses are no longer available for exploitation by collecting societies. And that's just not allowed. It's amusing how authors and artists are then put forward - and it's ignored that it's precisely the artists who are the ones who publish works under CC licenses ...
20 Ways to Use Gmail Filters - nothing groundbreaking, but a series of nice tricks for Google's webmailer.
ARD/ZDF want to not extend Tour contract for now - will the media ever face their part of the responsibility for all this mess? I mean, if coverage is only about hype and normal performances are more or less completely ignored, if only the ultimate victory counts - then one should not be surprised if athletes adapt to this ideal image. The athlete takes performance-enhancing drugs, of course. But somewhere the reason for this is laid - and the image of the athlete in the public is certainly an important factor.
German government specifies obligations for archiving web content - oh man, if I don't have work, I create some? Stupid people. My blog is available to everyone under a CC license. If the national library thinks it needs to be archived, they should move their virtual ass over and regularly scrape it, just like Google and others already do. Otherwise, they can leave me alone at my rear pixels ...
duplicity - encrypted differential tar archives. Sounds interesting for backups.
Court prohibits sending articles by email - always everything for the benefit of rights holders. Because they are, after all, an essential part of the education system and society. Quite the opposite of universities, which are just freeloaders. Such things must be fundamentally prevented, where would we end up if a non-profit association (founded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science) had the right to supply universities with information cost-effectively and efficiently.
GVU and Investigations - "The employees of the GVU are not neutral experts."
Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we? - how plastic waste accumulates in the ocean and enters the food chain (and thus onto our plates) via fish. More plastic than plankton - shocking.
Park Place, the Amazon-S3 clone - in Ruby.
VI in JavaScript - yes, you read that right. VI. In JavaScript. In the web browser. The pain!
BKA investigators searching in the beer garden - rampaging federal agents on the wrong track. Embarrassing.
IT-Chronik - who is behind the eavesdropping interfaces. Are we selling our data, our conversations, and everything else to all those cooperating intelligence agencies. Parliamentary control only rudimentary and in the absence of the public. Big Brother Global.
New database class - HyperDB - that's what makes it possible to run WordPress in data centers under wordpress.com. Nice.
Study: Nuclear power - neither cheap nor good for the climate - because uranium mining is conveniently ignored by the nuclear lobby. Combined heat and power plants, on the other hand, are more efficient and better - but they don't require the monstrous equipment that energy monopolists would need.
RFC against Spam - will it help? Maybe, because an RFC tends to be implemented in mail servers. On the other hand, will the mail servers also be updated to the new versions with the feature?
Like you and me, a terrorist - that's how it starts. We are moving into a state that nobody really wants - except maybe Schäuble. This has nothing to do with a free democratic order in the long run. But about the Stasi, they all made fun of it. Nonsense, the whole thing. Pure nonsense.
Retailers rejoice: Biometric images for health card - can someone explain to me why we need biometric data on the health card? What's the point? The whole thing has become so absurd that you feel like you're living in a satire ...
Amnesty International condemns "politics of fear" - that's how far it's come, that Germany is being condemned by AI. But Berlin will also ignore this and continue. Because fear-mongering sells better than rational action.
The ARD sound disturbance named Godefroot (Update 3) - and even more information about the ARD "sound disturbance".
Dietz, Henn, Böltz, Aldag, Ullrich - and the team doctors and Godefroot didn't know anything about it? And the sponsor wasn't aware of any of this? When will Riis speak? Somehow, the entire cycling world is falling apart. Give the young riders a chance, those who haven't done all this nonsense yet.
Microsoft will identify the unknown internet user - let's build the transparent surfer and applaud it. Stupid. People, get yourself anonymizing proxies. Privoxy is quite easy to install on every system ...
NDR censors Dietz interview with Beckmann - if journalists and TV stations censor themselves, why do we need Schräuble?
Ornithopters to Revolutionize Aircraft Design - so far I have mostly associated ornithopters with steampunk and sci-fi.