Textureshop - generates tileable textures based on parameters for random generators. Interesting idea, can definitely deliver nice results with some tinkering.
Linkblog - 29.5.2006 - 30.6.2006
Ullrich, Sevilla and Pevenage temporarily suspended - consistent with the self-commitment of the Pro-Tour teams, only logical if the Spanish police have sufficient initial suspicion for an investigation. But somehow I have the feeling that, regardless of the outcome of the investigation, Jan Ullrich will hang up his cycling shoes.
OMG Girlz Don’t Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1 - hilarious.
Wells Grants in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims! In Large Part. - wow. SCO has been heavily rejected here.
Bank data extorted from SWIFT - Bank secrecy? Data protection? Pfft. Forget it. The question remains: which damage is greater: that caused by terrorism, or that caused by the alleged fight against terrorism.
Conversation with Boston Volkswagen - Paul Graham wants to buy a car ...
Microsoft acquires iView Multimedia - well, that makes my decision to switch to something else (probably Lightroom) even easier. iView Media Pro was already a shaky affair under the original manufacturer, and then adding Microsoft's "expertise" on top of that ...
Tinderbox: Tinderbox 3.5 - many features sound interesting, but somehow this will be the Emacs of the outliner ...
Shrinking health insurance companies? - oh yes, first privatization and opening are allegedly the key to happiness. Then the small insurers (who are often the more efficient ones) are to be destroyed. Does anyone still believe that our politics are not bought?
30-Billion Donation for Bill Gates - one can certainly appreciate that. If one day all that remains of Bill Gates is his foundation, that wouldn't be such a bad outcome. For that, one can also swallow this perversion of operating systems, as a large part of the economy is involved in humanitarian projects.
58 professionals involved in Spanish affair - the Spaniards are probably running out of cyclists this year ...
Brown bear Bruno killed by hunters - the problem bear just didn't want to respect the no-go areas ...
Exploring Cocoa with F-Script - interesting article about the object system of OS X
Freenode hacked - Operator account compromised. If you have passwords there, better change them and make sure the passwords used there are not used elsewhere ...
Hartz-IV fraud: 'Our image of man was too positive' - well, my image of Struck was probably too positive. So he is just as much of a fool as the other proletarians in Berlin ...
Microsoft buries WinFS - which turns the hopelessly delayed Vista into a pure farce.
Python Cheatsheet : saprfc 0.08 - another SAP-RFC module for Python.
Despite rising sales, industry is cutting jobs - and yet prolethicians still believe in regulation by the economy.
Sale of NRW University Hospitals? - oh yes, privatization. Alleged panacea of our time. In reality, just as much quackery as snake oil.
DrScheme - the best Scheme implementation in the world now has a new version 350. This version includes, among other changes, a Just-in-Time-Compiler for Intel and PPC.
Generic Table Relations for Django. Very interesting, this makes things like tags in data models much easier. I should be able to get rid of a lot of stuff from my Stuff-Library with this.
Major setback for anti-whaling activists - in the name of commerce and idiocy, we simply kill all the whales. What madness ...
Jan Ullrich calls it quits - and wins the Tour de Suisse. Maybe the Tour de France will still be a chance for him this year.
Wengophone: VoIP done right - could this be free software that can compete with Skype? Free is only the software, the use of the network infrastructure is tied to a provider and is chargeable.
Allegro Common Lisp Express - the current free (as in free beer) version 8.0 of it is out now.
Judgment: Pre-checking of forum posts is unreasonable - I don't know how many contradictory judgments it will take until there is finally a consensus on this topic ...
Automatic Pickle Serialization and Deserialization with PostgreSQL - very interesting, automatic pickle/unpickle when using PsycoPG2.
Bundestag beschlieĂźt staatlich verordnetes Verhungern - a good comment on the Bundestag's decision to reduce benefits to zero for unemployed people who "refuse" three times (I wonder how many politicians would accept one of the "offers" ...)
The world naked at friends' places - how convenient for the police to simply define their profile so that all young women fall under it and then get backing from the court when they force women to undress for no reason ... Rule of law? Forget it.
Former BND spy implicates Hanning | tagesschau.de - hey, August, this is not a good picture that you are presenting of Nordwalde. I already thought that you had to play the role of the top spy was a mess, but this here ...
Microsoft's Calling Home Problem - about the latest approaches with which Microsoft spies on legal users.
Speaking Frankly: From Leitz sublime to Leica splitsville - no, I didn't know that Leitz helped Jews during the Nazi era to emigrate from Germany and start over abroad. Respect.
McDonald's Interactive Division - real or hoax? If it's real, then hats off to the action.
Death of an Innocent with No Legal Consequences - how convenient, when there is no way to convict them. Strangely enough, the victim is there, the weapons and the perpetrators. And yet you can't convict them. Of course ...
US House of Representatives votes against "net neutrality" - we can probably assume that the worst possible variant will prevail ...
SkypeOut - The End - new business concept: simply collect customer credit after some time. Maybe send an empty e-mail as a reminder beforehand. Skype should patent this ...
Create SL Objects in Blender — If You Dare - very interesting, a bridge between Blender and SecondLive - Offline content creation could be possible.
Sony: 10-Megapixel camera with a duster from the alpha series - not so stupid, what Sony has made from Minolta.
Caller ID Spoofing - what is worse than a broken authorization system? One that millions of people and machines trust.
Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen? - Evidence that the 2004 election in the USA was anything but clean.
OLG Frankfurt: Online-Demonstration ist keine Gewalt - hopefully online demonstrations will now really be treated the same way and considered according to the same criteria as real demonstrations.
Digital rangefinder camera Epson R-D1s is coming - and doesn't sound bad at all, the price has come down significantly. So I will probably postpone any camera purchases until after Photokina.
StepTalk(GNU Scripting Framework) - now available in a version for Mac OS X!
The Illustrated Nethack Monsters - an image for every character monster from Nethack.
Basso outclasses the competition - one could certainly say that at the Giro. Ok, the competition for the Tour was of course not completely present (Ullrich only as a teammate and Vinokourov was missing), but still a strong performance.
Offended Italian salami - in any case, that's the impression Simoni gives me. Somehow it seems to be missing for him that his times are probably over.
The source code for UCSD-Pascal is free - for fans of old languages and old operating systems. Oh man, that was the first Pascal environment I hacked on at school almost 24 years ago ...
Feedjack - A Django+Python Powered Feed Aggregator (Planet) - could perhaps be used as a replacement for the rather outdated WordPress at metaowl.de?
Microsoft wants »cooperating editorial teams« - Heise isn't what it used to be either. Even the IX is starting to look like a bulletin board for Microsoft in some places ...
PL/1 for GCC - for fans of old languages.