Forward, Against Oblivion!

Hey!

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A Religious Prison

What a great idea! At Telepolis News you can find the original article.

Laughter Works Like Cocaine

Now I also know why User Friendly is addictive. I found the original article at RP-Online: Wissenschaft.

Mars Mission: ESA Trembles for the "Beagle"

Well, there are still some options for making contact, after all the Beagle will be trying out a whole series of variants (frequencies, etc.) over the next 10 days. So there's no need to panic yet.

And Mars Express itself is already a very impressive success - and with the high-resolution camera system and radar system also very interesting.

All in all, a good achievement. Of course, the Beagle would be the icing on the cake - and it wasn't so cheap that you could just throw it away.

At RP-Online: Wissenschaft I found the original article.

Toothpasteworld - World's Largest Toothpaste Collection - Online Toothpaste Museum

Bah, Humbug!

Season's greetings ...

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GSI licenses: A nice present for Fassa Bortolo

Well, US Postal, that's what happens when you focus only on a few highlights and otherwise show up less frequently in cycling. That can cause problems with license issuance...

You can find the original article at RADSPORT-NEWS.COM - News Overview.

Open Source Open Genera?

Yes yes yes, please please please!

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Way Out of the Box

An interesting article by Ted Nelson - the inventor of hypertext - about the limitations that software still imposes on us today, even though we could have come much further. For him, we haven't progressed much beyond paper and pencil, not even with the much-praised Web - ultimately the concept of pages and browsers is still heavily bound to old concepts.

A few of his criticism points are being addressed today by techniques developing in the realm of weblogs (trackback, comment functions at a level below the page, search functions on page elements instead of entire pages, higher degree of linking), but largely he is right - it's actually somewhat depressing when you consider how the digital simulation of paper and pencil is becoming ever more perfect, while at the same time possibilities are being squandered.

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Welcome to ERights.Org - Programming language for distributed peer-to-peer applications with special language features for this area of application

The MGR Window System HOWTO - Alternative graphical user interface for systems with limited resources

WindowShade X - Expose-like feature (Minimize to Desktop) for Jaguar

Anke Engelke becomes the new Harald Schmidt

A mutation that somehow frightens me – from a purely biological standpoint.

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CMake Cross Platform Make - Finally a usable alternative to the GNU autotools?

Divmod Lupy Overview - Full-text index in Python - Port of the Lucene database from the Java world

DocIndexer - Document indexer in Python, uses Lupy

GROKLAW - Linus Comments on Alleged SCO Files

SCO not only claims trivial files to be theirs (ctype.h and errno.h are really nothing extraordinary), but they even claim ownership of versions that were demonstrably already used by Linus in Linux 0.01. If SCO has nothing better to show, this will be a laughingstock for the entire industry.

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LWN: SCO's copyright letter

And here is the letter with the files that would allegedly be illegal in Linux due to copyright claims on APIs. Which is of course particularly amusing when a file is named bsderrors.h - and the comments on the letter point out a few other problems in SCO's claims.

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MBS: Temperature Monitor - Temperature monitor for the CPU in newer Macintosh computers

moviemistakes.com - welcome! - Website about mistakes in movies

Novell Registers Unix Copyrights

One could almost feel sorry for SCO. But only almost.

At New York Times: Technology you can find the original article.

NSF - OLPA - PR 03-147: RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NANOSCALE FIBERS THAT ARE THINNER THAN THE WAVELENG ...

Weird. Glass fibers that are thinner than the wavelengths of light they transport - because of this, the light waves don't lie within the fiber, but around the fiber instead, yet are still guided.

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Powerbook Fan and Safari Tabs

Cool class. So what else about Panther should stop me from upgrading my little PowerBook? First all kinds of things are broken, then you have to patch the system if you don't want a loud noise machine. I think I'll stick with Jaguar for a while.

At das Netzbuch you can find the original article.

PreFab UI Browser - Remote control OS X GUI applications and generate Apple Script for it

Taco Software - Freeware for Mac OS X - HTML editor with live preview that uses many system features of OS X

Unreliable Guide To Locking - Documentation of the various locking mechanisms in Linux 2.6

D. Souflis - TinyScheme Download site - Very compact Scheme, well suited as an extension language for applications.

Lego closes 2003 again with a loss

Is the real reason that children grow up earlier? Or rather that children have less imagination and creativity? Or is one being equated with the other here?

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

SCO vs. Linux: Loyal Customers

I'm wondering what legal relevance such a letter would have in Germany. Would that already constitute coercion? I find it interesting that a company seriously believes it has a chance of success if it thinks it needs to put pressure on its former customers by letter.

At heise online news there's the original article.

ARD-Buffet - Teledoktor: Speichelsteine - And the good Teledoktor has something to say about it too.

Blogging and Publicity

An interesting comment on what blogs are and how they differ from previous forms of communication: Blogs are an instance of "publicy" - the McLuhan reversal of "privacy" - that occurs under the intense acceleration of instantaneous communications. Our notion of privacy was created as an artifact of literacy - silent reading lead to private interpretation of ideas that lead to private thoughts that lead to privacy. Blogging is an "outering" of the private mind in a public way (that in turn leads to the multi-way participation that is again characteristic of multi-way instanteous communictions.) Unlike normal conversation that is essentially private but interactive, and unlike broadcast that is inherently not interactive but public, blogging is interactive, public and, of course, networked - that is to say, interconnected. This characterization applies equally to diaries, link hubs, and every other variation on the blog theme. However, this classification only considers the topic from the direction of communication, not its outward form. But perhaps form is truly irrelevant - certain characteristics inevitably emerge, but the exact form of blogs is as diverse as the programmers of the software (and the users who modify the templates and thus the presentation). The way we communicate probably says far more about what makes blogs what they are than the way we present that communication visually. Here you can find the original article.

Correcting myths from Bjørn Lomborg

A collection of links to Bjørn Lomborg's book The Sceptical Environmentalist. This appears to be a fairly useful link collection that presents a wide range of opposing views. Here's the original article.

hobbythek - Fragrances of the Orient: Incense and Myrrh

Myrrh is an ancient remedy for inflammations in the mouth and throat.

IGM - Mac OS Flight Sim Resource

A website dedicated to flight simulators for Mac OS X. A bunch of links and info on the topic. Unfortunately, it stops with news in 2001, so they're more like olds. Is there anything newer on the subject?

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Medicine-Worldwide: Speicheldrüsen-Entzündung, Speichelstein - More about salivary gland stones

OpenMCL - Powerful Common Lisp with native code compiler for Macintosh and Linux PPC under GPL

Polaroid Dust & Scratch Removal - Excellent software for removing scratches and dust streaks from scans.

Scientific American: A Response to Lomborg's Rebuttal

And another thing about Lomborg: here is Scientific American's response to criticism of their issue that dealt with Lomborg's theses. As for the status of Lomborg's book: Many people claim to have scientific arguments when they do not: creationists, ancient astronaut theorists and the like. Being able to cite the scientific literature does not automatically confer validity on one's argument, nor does it make the argument genuinely scientific.

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Salivary Stones

There are more pleasant problems to have. Really.

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Speichelsteine - Removal of salivary stones through fragmentation

Stereo-Photography in Medium Format

Interesting pages about camera technology for making medium format stereo images. Price-wise, though, it's a bit more hefty than with 35mm film.

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Christmas hat trade ...

... organized and firmly in the hands of Rotterdam. It was on TV, so it must be true. I always knew there had to be a mafia behind it. Surely also behind these blinking pins, the climbing, fat Santa figures and similar atrocities. The Christmas mafia. Organized crime against good taste. And the Dutch are to blame. How perfectly it all fits together.

X-Plane - Flight simulator for Mac and Windows

Out with the old, in with the expensive

And once again an opportunity for the pharmaceutical industry to rip off the health system and patients.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Musizieren - Making music in a rental apartment - what is allowed?

freshmeat.net: Project details for PostgreSQL Log Analyzer - Log file analysis including statement statistics for PostgreSQL

Fujifilm's 20 megapixels, at a price: Digital Photography Review

20 megapixels - not bad. The sensor size is also great at 5.2x3.7cm. Ok, that's still quite far from full frame (even medium format APS is 6x4.5cm), but already pretty nice. But 2.4 million yen is quite steep - after all, almost 18,000 euros.

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Lost Highway

Currently running on 3sat. Honestly: a film that can afford to waste the first 15 minutes on almost no activity, go round in circles three times, bite its own tail, and end with the same sentence it begins with — I just have to like that.

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News: USA ban Linux exports to Iraq

The Americans and the missing ground contact ...

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search.cpan.org: Richard Clamp / perl-1.0_16

Congratulations

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