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.
Linkblog - 22.4.2006 - 29.5.2006
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Feedjack - A Django+Python Powered Feed Aggregator (Planet) - could perhaps be used as a replacement for the rather outdated WordPress at metaowl.de?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.
PyCells and peak.events - Phillip J. Eby on Cells and what they mean for event-oriented programming. Particularly interesting, as one of the projects in the Google Summer of Code is a Python implementation of the Cell concept.
Theory for cloaking devices - Invisiprims for RL ... (SL-Insider-Joke, sorry)
US Patent Office rejects claims in Forgent's JPEG patent - hopefully the rest of their silly patent will be invalidated as well.
Medallia Blog: SmackBook Pro - use the motion sensor of the new MacBook Pro to switch between virtual desktops. Just give the MacBook Pro a slap ...
O’Reilly trademarks “Web 2.0″ and sets lawyers on IT@Cork! » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views - and demands a name change of a conference not organized by them. Well, Web 2.0 is just marketing jargon ...
Safari Tidy plugin - tidy as a Safari plugin. Nice. Safari is slowly growing up.
x48 emulator - and on the Nokia Pad! Genius, hopefully there will soon be an installable package.
Are you generic? - Wilson Miner describes how he, as a non-programmer, can create applications himself without programmer assistance using Django and its simple generic view functions.
Free42 for Zaurus X/Qt and Nokia 770 - an HP42S emulator that runs on the Nokia tablet. Brilliant.
MyTunesRSS - nice little tool, starts a web server and generates dynamic podcast feeds (as well as a simple web interface) from the iTunes library.
Rogue Amoeba - Nicecast for Mac OS X - Stream iTunes to a ShoutCast server (or locally on the LAN).
Klinikstreik: Are cash patients not emergencies? - the types of surgeries performed despite the strike, I'm not surprised. But the strong preference for private patients that comes through - something like this can already reduce the acceptance of the doctors' strike.
US judge dismisses Masri's torture lawsuit against CIA - fuck human rights. When will there finally be sanctions against this unjust regime?
MGTalk - Google Talk for mobile - unfortunately doesn't work on my V600i yet. No idea why.
What Happened To Dynamic Range - Dynamic range in CD recordings and the (negative) development over the years.
Adactio: Journal - The ugly American - yep, Paul Graham == Wanker. After all, if he really spouted such nonsense.
Kauder warns against the publication of the BND report - due to alleged endangerment of the work of the BND. That this work of the BND endangers our constitutional rights, of course, does not matter at all ...
New MacBooks - sorry, but a notebook with chipset graphics instead of mobile ATI and then still 5 cm wider and 1 cm deeper - something like that is no replacement for a 12" PowerBook. I hope Apple comes to their senses ...
Debunking Linus's Latest - Shapiro also has a few thoughts to share about Linus's latest misstep.
Nokia Announces the Internet Tablet 2006 OS Update - very nice, especially since the new release will also work for the old tablet. However, the update is a bit tricky - reinstallation of all applications and data ...
Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate, Part II - Tanenbaum's counterarguments to Linus' Microkernel-stupid claim ...
In the mills of welfare - what it used to mean to be a foster child - and what it might mean again?
RWE: The profit that came from the cold - if anyone now thinks this will change the prices downward, forget it. We also have to continue financing RWE's nonsensical expenses in other industries.
Nokia will preinstall Google Talk - not bad, especially since Google Talk is based on Jabber.
Schneier on Security: Major Vulnerability Found in Diebold Election Machines - is this finally the end for this dreadful Diebold disaster? Or will they try to wriggle out of it again and suppress the reports?
heise online - LG Düsseldorf: Forenhaftung erst ab Kenntnis des Rechtsverstoßes - great legal certainty. Now there are two contradictory rulings on the same topic.
Rotten Effort - how Microsoft tries to pressure consultants in companies with almost extortionate tactics ...
HashCaml - an extension of Objective Caml, which allows type-safe data to be serialized and deserialized. Basis for example for remote function calls.
Django for non-programmers - Django from a web designer's perspective.
Rolf wins his own farewell race - Goodbye Rolf!
Django Weblog "magic-removal" branch merged - gaaaah. Work. Crap.
How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm - a practical guide || kuro5hin.org - well. doesn't sound very nice, the method.
Workbench: Settlement Reached with Dave Winer - and now Dave Winer has lost his last advocate that one could still take seriously. Well. Will Dave now taste his own medicine? So far, he was the one who has put others down in blogs ...
When companies meet their doppelgänger - A particularly creative form of piracy
This was the Roots: How the Internet came to Germany - and not a word about the IN e.V. at Heise either - which was also significantly involved in private internet activity.
Oberon Script. A Lightweight Compiler and Runtime System for the Web - an Oberon compiler in JavaScript. Now that's weird.
World Press Photos 2005: Germany Premiere in Hamburg - and starting this Saturday, I'll be in Hamburg for a few days.
Mamiya to sell camera division - and the next old name in photography is sold off
WASG-Bundesvorstandsmitglied switches to NPD - because there's no difference between left and right in Germany anyway ...
Hyperlink-Prozess: Netzaktivist erneut freigesprochen - good. Very good!
Pur3d.de | TEXTURES - a lot of textures that can also be tiled.
UVMapper - 2.5D Software
AOL.de Zugang - WiFi Hotspots. And yes, that's the devil. But what can you do when network withdrawal threatens ...