Pointless Sites - Useless Sites - when you want to waste some time again.
Linkblog - 29.12.2006 - 19.1.2007
Polyglot - yet another person with too much time. A Hello World program that can be translated into various languages without modification (and also represents a directly executable .com version). Freaks. All freaks.
Tupper's Self-Referential Formula - ok, someone definitely had way too much time.
User data to be released for danger prevention - sounds nice, doesn't it? But in reality, it means that every police officer can now more or less arbitrarily access customer data from providers. Because prevention and danger prevention - there's no need for any control. Then it goes quickly like stepping on cats ...
Python for Maemo - playing with Python 2.5 on the Nokia Tablet.
Take The AQ Test - Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults.
Entity Crisis: Unity3D Evaluated. Wow. - I'll definitely have to check this out soon.
General suspicion against all credit card holders - Udo Vetter on the credit card dragnet. He complains. Good.
The Jaquet-Droz androids, three extraordinary automatons - historical robots from the 18th century. Yes, spring mechanisms. Something like this can still fascinate me.
XO Wave - I'm actually quite satisfied with Amadeus II, but maybe I should still check out this sound editor.
2006 Darwin Awards - the Brazilian with the grenade would have been my favorite.
macfuse - FUSE for OS X. Useful - sshfs or gmailfs, anyone?
More pigs than people in Lower Saxony - some headlines just have to be left as they are.
Robert A. Wilson passed away - read the Illuminatus trilogy again. Fnord.
soviet roadside bus-stops - fascinating images.
Valleywag - far right.
Minimum wage - even in the USA there is one, and it was just increased - and drastically so. Only here everyone claims that a statutory minimum wage would harm the economy.
StudiVZ: "Gegendarstellung" per Defacement [Update] - cool action! Give the manager-babble and the Web 2.0 bubbles a good pinch.
Tappt Blu-ray in die Anti-Porno-Falle? - the enthusiasm with which a Heise journalist writes about the good performance of porn on HD.
Two programming positions for the "Bundestrojaner" - the absurdity continues. Our government couldn't care less about civil rights or the constitution. Long strides into the police state. 1984 is so yesterday.
Fab @ Home - interesting project, a Fabber for DIY. Prices of the components still quite high (approx. 2400 US$), but already an approach.
GeeXboX uShare UPnP A/V Media Server HomePage - simple, small uPNP server for Linux. Could be interesting for me to access my collected MP3s at home via the Nokia tablet (I already have a firewall running, which can also be a media server).
Magnatune: free MP3 music and music licensing - one of the sites where I now get my music. Very nice licensing terms (for example, you can share download links with three friends for them to download, prices are freely selectable within a fairly wide range, there are different licensing models for various purposes, including a CC license for free use).
Need a Painter? - hire that guy!
RepRap - and another free fabber.
towboat - batshitcrazy.
Wikipedia Skins - how to make Wikipedia more mobile-friendly so that the small Nokia screen is better utilized.
Correo - a new mail client for OS X - something like Camino for Firefox, but for Thunderbird. Could be quite exciting.
Child pornography on the Internet: Investigators check all German credit cards for the first time - because, it is against child pornography, so everyone must agree. That data protection and presumption of innocence are simply left by the wayside, no one cares. And tomorrow we ask for contributions to the Communist Party or the trade union - and then? Are we still all in agreement then?
chaostables - Ideas for firewalling - how to outsmart, block, and confuse various scanning methods. Perfect for long winter evenings at the firewall (cancelled due to global warming).
Look around you - I have to check it out. Sesame Street for adults and then in the style of Douglas Adams? Sounds like Nirvana.
Max (Macintosh Audio for OS X) - I should check that out, it could be an interesting alternative to simple iTunes ripping. On the other hand: the charm of iTunes lies precisely in its simplicity ...
Momofuku Ando - the inventor of instant noodles.
Nokia N800 is now public & available! - Wow! Now with built-in camera for video telephony over the internet. And of course still open source and Linux based, faster, cooler ...
Ophcrack - Crack NTLM password hashes using rainbow tables. Comes with a ready-made Linux live CD including the software and the tables.
Second life goes open source - first step the frontend. Yes, I am quite enthusiastic.
Skype for the Nokia Tablet - but only for the new N800. For the N770, there are already two VOIP clients with Googletalk and GizmoProject (and with GizmoProject also one that is based on standards). Nevertheless, it's nice to get the quite widespread Skype as an option, especially with the built-in cam in the N800.
What really happened on Mars? -- Authoritative Account - exciting report about a software bug in the Mars Pathfinder and how it was found and handled.
GWUP - Welcome to the Skeptics! I didn't know about this one - even though the association has been around since 87.
Amazon mystery: pricing of books - dynamic pricing. Book prices rise because they are temporarily stored in a shopping cart. Hmm - fixed book pricing, anyone? So it will probably only happen in the non-DE shops.
The VRS promotes underage smokers! - delightful. Really delightful.
FBI: Workers saw prisoner abuse at Guantanamo - "This thorough internal assessment shows the FBI was not involved in these activities in any way," said chief FBI spokesman Richard Kolko. Jaja, sie haben nur zugeguckt und erst später bei Nachfragen darüber berichtet. Was aber faszinierend ist: die Informationen sind auf eine Anfrage auf Basis des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes veröffentlicht worden - wie würde eine solche Anfrage hier in Deutschland beantwortet? Innere Sicherheit und daher keine Veröffentlichung? Würden wir in einem ähnlichen Fall überhaupt eine Chance haben, die Wahrheit (die ja möglicherweise schon längst intern dokumentiert ist) ans Licht zu holen?
Pegasus fliegt nicht mehr - oops. Somehow a piece of history, Pegasus Mail. I still remember my wild hacks with the DOS version in Novell networks. Guerilla mail system at the company.
cutmp3 - a nice little MP3 editor for the console - ideal for quickly cutting pauses out of songs and similar tasks on a streaming server.