frankfurt.blogplan.de
Cute. But I'm somehow not in the mood to do that for Münster. Looks like work. Doesn't one of the others here feel like it?
At Nochn Blogg. there's the original article.
Archive 3.7.2003 - 16.7.2003
Good to know!
"A kick to the buttocks of a subordinate employee is not part of a supervisor's occupational activities, even if it is done with the intention of promoting performance." LAG Düsseldorf, Az.: 12 (18) Sa 196/98 Note to self: do not kick employees.
At Zickenterror you can find the original article.
It's hard to fight for a liar
Ok, I think things could get tough for Bush now. If CNN puts little children in the news who don't like Bush, then that could be the beginning of his downfall. I mean, what could be worse than little children who don't like Bush? Maybe there's a video where Bush kicks a dog?
I found the original article at Warblogs:CC.
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report
A point that is often overlooked in discussions about the Mozilla Foundation as the new custodian of the Mozilla browser is its significance in the realm of commercial browsers. Netscape will probably definitely die, and AOL apparently has no more interest in it (according to Zeldman's source, they're even removing the logos). Mozilla will probably only exist as a free product from now on, and commercial Netscapes will likely disappear in the long run. So AOL is surrendering the territory without a fight to Microsoft and the open source variants of Mozilla.
I can't say I'm surprised by this - AOL never had real interest in Netscape anyway; it was just a means to an end, and with the latest agreement with Microsoft, that means has become superfluous. For AOL, it was never about browser freedom in the antitrust proceedings against Microsoft.
In the end, the user is left behind, because Internet Explorer with its lousy implementation can dominate the market a little bit more - unless Mozilla establishes itself on a broader scale, but that will probably now happen less through companies pushing it and more only through users themselves.
Kindermann: No one presents their visions anymore
It's a shame. Kindermann is at least one of the last manufacturers of good - and above all affordable - medium format projectors. It would really be a pity if this quite old company were to disappear. Let's hope that the restructuring works and Kindermann is preserved and there's still room for the old products.
At dotcomtod you can find the original article.
Shooting Nekkid Women... for Fun
Ok, are there any dumber leisure activities than chasing naked women with paint guns? Update: It's a hoax. The original article is at lies.com.
Some continue to resist iTunes Music Store
We are Apple. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.
Walrus lady ''Antje'' is dying
Oh no :( - I still remember well when she first appeared on our television and snorted and slobbered over the pool edge. What a shame.
I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.
PDF Has Stupid Ears
Yep. I really see it that way. PDF is nice enough as a transport format for print output. And as a basis for the Quartz engine in OS X. But in the browser as a page format, that's silly. I'm really annoyed by all these constantly linked PDF files - does creating HTML versions really take people so much effort? When I want to view a price list, I don't want to have to launch Acrobat or Preview first, just to have another window open. You can render that as HTML too. Silly people.
Just as silly as this Macromedia vision (yeah, I have visions like that too - after enjoying a pepperoni pizza with extra cheese) building everything with this horrible (and discriminatory) Flash-MX.
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
"T" in Court
Oh yes, how nice, we will certainly get by in our language without the letter between S and U. I have hardly ever needed to use this letter in this entire text (ok, except in the title, but that is a citation). You can read everything just fine without the letter between S and U ...
At heise online news there is the original article.
There is no spoon...
Dubya has now completely lost touch with reality. Did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? Yes, definitely. And we gave him the chance to let inspectors investigate it, but he refused - well, the world might have a somewhat different view of reality than Dubya on this point, for example the weapons inspectors who were in Iraq and had to leave because the war-hungry US government preferred to play with bombs instead of waiting for the results ... I found the original article at Warblogs:CC.
Allwetterzoo Münster - Offspring
Because there are constantly searches for baby animals on my website, here's the link to the page at Allwetterzoo Münster about young animals
Above and Below Lie So Close Together...
... as Alexandre Vinokourov and Joseba Beloki had to experience today. Alexandre Vinokourov wins his first stage victory and closes the gap to Lance Armstrong to just 20 seconds, Joseba Beloki crashes badly and ends the Tour in an ambulance. On one hand, you're pleased about this year's very interesting Tour with many attacks, on the other hand, bad crashes are simply the price riders sometimes have to pay. In this case, it was probably just softened asphalt that tore at Joseba Beloki's rear wheel. Hopefully it looked worse than it actually is, so that he has to end this Tour but not his career :-(
Still, big praise for Alexandre Vinokourov for a great ride to the finish - the attack came at exactly the right time, his strength was already clearly visible, he saved everything well for the final attack. Wow.
Tour de France: Beloki must give up after crash
Phew, at least it all sounds like repairable fractures and no serious permanent damage — given the speed at which the fall likely happened, it could easily have been much worse. Let's hope Beloki can show Armstrong his teeth again in next year's Tour.
Linux on a Saturday Night
It's amusing to watch an otherwise intelligent person (virtually of course only - I'm grateful that I probably don't have to witness the personal breakdowns that are taking place), desperately trying to get Linux to work and blaming Linux, throwing snide comments about Linux vs. Windows. I mean, the guy writes books, he's a co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, has an academic degree, but he's not able to buy and read a beginner's book about Linux before installing a completely new operating system. Classic case of overqualification - too smart to learn.
At Joho the Blog there's the original article.
More WebCore Fixes
Recommended blog by the CSS developer in the Safari team. You always get nice insights into what's coming and are pleased that Safari is becoming increasingly complete in CSS so you can finally use all those nice features (and then look down on Microsoft's inferior implementations).
It would just be nice if at least the Gecko people would keep up too (they've already implemented a lot, certainly better than IE), then us Safari people wouldn't be so alone...
You can find the original article at Surfin Safari — here.
Today's top rider of the Tour for me: Tyler Hamilton
That's clear to me. To stay with Armstrong on such a grueling stage with a broken collarbone and keep up so well, even attacking at times, is already a superb performance. Though also a bit crazy. But you probably have to be that way if you want to ride the Tour...
Aldag is simply impressive
So today's stage was simply fantastic. Aldag was in the breakaway group from the start, got caught up at one point, then attacked hard and scored a fantastic second place on the stage. Great stuff.
And Virenque also impressed with his stage win and taking the yellow jersey - even if it's probably only for one day. Good on him.
That's the kind of Tour I love, with surprises and strong performances. Excellent.
Sony's Design Complete Calculator
And no matter how much you design the casing, at the end of the day your Sony still only has PC junk inside, it will never become a Mac
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Land in Sight for Squeaky Ducky
A small outing for a rubber duck, but a great success for mankind (Ernie would be proud, as would Mr. Müller-Lüdenscheidt and Mr. Dr. Klöbner)
At Spiegel Online: Science you can find the original article.
Stoiber for longer weekly working hours
I'm still waiting to see how these union idiots think extending working hours will reduce the 4.5 million unemployed and not instead produce a future number of 6 million unemployed
At tagesschau on the internet there's the original article.
The Home Page of Squeak for SL Series Zaurus (ZauChu) and Qtopia/iPAQ
Nice. The Squeak VM for the Zaurus. I'll give that a try when I have time. The Zaurus with Smalltalk on it would be just the right thing to play around with on the go.
Monkeys Can Program
Cool. I always knew that Visual Basic was pretty ridiculous, and that Java causes stress
Freenet and AOL warn file-sharing users
Hmm. So if neither AOL nor Freenet themselves monitor traffic (which I'm inclined to believe), then that means the mere accusation by a third party (some representatives of the music industry) with evidence created by them (since no one can verify whether their log file excerpts have any connection to reality) is sufficient to threaten a user with contract termination? That the music industry has a very strange relationship with its rights is well known - they like to adopt a "shoot first, ask questions later" behavior. But the fact that providers are now complying out of excessive deference is already concerning. Where are consumer rights in all this? This simply opens the door wide to arbitrariness. And that the self-proclaimed internet experts of the music industry would have scruples about simply blanketly accusing file-sharing users, well, no one will believe that, will they? There's also the question of how they actually want to prove anything. Most file-sharing networks work in such a way that the actual transfers (and only these are potentially rights violations) take place between file-sharing users themselves - that is, from host to host. Other computers in the system normally don't notice anything. So someone must be putting data on the network that is subject to foreign copyright, and wait until the transfer takes place. In Germany, I believe that falls under "incitement to commit a crime" - and whether a provider should then cancel a user's contract on such a basis, I do find questionable. Not that file-sharing networks particularly interest me - but the whole procedure stinks to high heaven. It's the same nonsense as the incitement to copyright infringement that a Munich aristocrat pulled off years ago.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Hubble sees oldest planet
And darn it, just an old pile of junk in space
At Astronomical Trivia there's the original article.
Third stage victory for Petacchi
So something like that. Petacchi is racking up victory after victory and Zabel is lagging behind? Come on, Erik, get pedaling!
I found the original article at tagesschau on the internet.
Monitor - Genetic Engineering Contribution
Why does a citizen in Germany have to feel, with every decision made by politicians, that they've been betrayed and sold out? That their own interests - even when it's the opinion of a majority - don't interest a single politician? That all politicians are either corrupt or let themselves be controlled by business, with corporate interests standing far above the will of citizens?
And why is every piece of nonsense always sold to us again by politicians as supposed commitment or even a victory for consumers or something equally great, when in reality it just means we've been screwed over once more?
But where the Federal Gerd spends their vacation is apparently a much more important decision...
Price for rolling tobacco soon at record level?
Maybe Jutta will finally quit smoking then.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Teleinfo clarifies spam allegations
Ouch. Teleinfo doesn't seem to be particularly clever about this. Well, at least Heise's lawyers have something to do during the summer slump.
The original article can be found at heise online news - here.
Hubble discovers sensational exoplanet
Wow, an astronomical cliffhanger
At Astronomical Trivia there's the original article.
Yahoo! News - ONLINE DIARIES CAN CAUSE TEEN FRIENDSHIPS TO SUFFER
This is so absurd, I just have to link it. How good that we all don't write diaries, because they can disadvantage teenage friendships. What, we all don't have teenage friendships? So annoying, must be due to our blogs. Or the fact that we're no longer teenagers.
Sex, Lies and Video Surveillance
ACK. Unfortunately.
At Ligne Claire you can find the original article.
Sharp lets Zaurus die in Germany
Too bad. The Zaurus is a nice platform. I like to tinker with mine. Well, I guess I have another exotic computer lying around here then.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
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Okay. I'll remove the target=_blank then.
At .::: [unsinnfälliges] you can find the original article.
The Observer | Politics | Confess or die, US tells jailed Britons
So we've arrived at the methods of the Inquisition? Very nice choice: either the British suspects in Guantanamo Bay confess that they are terrorists, then they get 20 years in prison. Or they don't confess and get the death penalty if they are found guilty in the trial. What kind of legal system is that supposed to be? Is this the Bush administration's idea of freedom? I call that perverted.
Mass crash at 55 km/h
So (and with third place for Zabel in the sprint) today's stage of the Tour ended. Ouch. Jimmy Casper didn't look good at all, I hope it's not too serious. It almost looked like a game of dominoes, the way the riders all tumbled. That hurts just watching it.
You know that a tour stage is just not that exciting right now...
... when commentators report for 10 minutes about the technique of peeing in cycling races (of course including an anecdote).
Merkel wants to have the final say in tax dispute
Merkel. Power word. What irritates me about the combination of these two words in one sentence?
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
User Feedback on Blogs
I'm honestly always amazed at how many blogs don't have comments (for example Schockwellenreiter) and how many only allow comments after registration with some strange service. Are spam comments really such a huge problem? I hardly ever see them in the blogs I read anyway, and I only get a comment once in a blue moon myself. The whole thing is rather strange... You can find the original article at Nochn Blogg. here.
AOL blogs!
Ouch. Well, then the weblogs.com servers will probably get Septembered 1, just like Usenet did back then. In any case, what will likely cause problems is the infrastructure of information services. If a significant number of weblogs are created via AOL (and you can bet that the AOL weblogs will really be diaries and will be hard to beat in quantity and easy to beat in quality
), how will services like Technorati, Feedster, blo.gs and similar handle it? So we can be curious to see how the blogging infrastructure will cope with something like this and what happens to it (certainly a few hardware upgrades will be necessary). I can well imagine that one or another service will give up the ghost, especially if the AOL weblogs are cranking out pings. Possibly AOL will set up its own server this time, which would at least be sensible, and distribute the pings via changes.xml to the other services.
Unlike Usenet, the blogosphere is not a push medium, so it shouldn't make any difference to the end user (unlike Usenet, where every participant had to experience the chaos). Except that there will be even more weblogs and probably the various weblog search services, information services and directories will have to think about how to structure their information - otherwise you won't find anything in all that mess. [1] the invasion of millions of AOL users into Usenet took place in September 1993.
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Saturday 5 July Pg : also works with SBCL, OpenMCL and Lispworks
Cool, a complete Lisp implementation of the PostgreSQL interface. Very interesting, and runs in OpenMCL, which means I can play around with it.
I found the original article on CLiki Recent Changes.
Alleged Million-Dollar Purchase on eBay Turns Out to Be a Bad Joke
Are we now introducing a 0.8 per mille limit on the Internet?
At heise online news there is the original article.
Berlusconi refuses to apologize
Oh man, the troll from Italy doesn't even recognize a golden bridge when you put it on his foot. Ok, so now it's at least clear that Berlusconi wants to make a fool of himself. I think this EU Council Presidency will have at least high entertainment value. The political value, however, should be rated as rather questionable. At WDR.de I found the original article.
Embarrassing Iraq dossier in Word format
Yesterday and the day before already here, today also at Heise and Telepolis.
At heise online news there is the original article.
Sport in the Odd Summer
Another Tour casualty (with a few nice links)
You can find the original article at Ligne Claire.
taz 4.7.03 The Servant's Dream
Go for it, push yourself, you pig!
I'm crossing my fingers for Udo Bölts to get a daily victory. He really deserves it.
WebDesktop
Weird. A semi-transparent web browser that runs directly on the desktop. So to speak, Google as a wallpaper (or any other website). Crazy, what kind of ideas people come up with, of course I have Geektool running, with an image of the Holtenauer Lock in Kiel and my current system log on the desktop. That's of course much more sensible. Here's the original article.
German Government Continues to Hinder Fight Against AIDS
Well, everyone has to cut back, so the Eurofighter is approved, but AIDS assistance is cut. That makes sense, doesn't it?
I found the original article at Telepolis News.