Sculpture Projects Münster 07
"Skulptur Projekte Münster 07" - finally it's starting. I like the Skulpturprojekte - the integration of art and normal space is simply the right way. Museums are always so stiff.
Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form
Third View
Third View - Photos from the 19th century re-taken in 1970 and the 90s. Interesting Flash site.
Schneier on Security: Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot
Schneier on Security: Portrait of the Modern Terrorist as an Idiot - our Proletarians in Berlin should perhaps read this too. But for them, one would surely have to translate it into Bild-Speak ...
Trouble about new Flickr filters
Anger about new Flickr filters - "If you use a Yahoo ID from Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong or Korea, you cannot turn off the safe search due to local business conditions. [...]" - it's time for a service that offers the features without this silly idea of censorship. Picasa is not an alternative - the features are just too meager, the interface too brittle.
Yahoo Shareholders Reject Human Rights Proposals
Yahoo shareholders reject human rights proposals - "The shareholders of the internet service provider Yahoo have followed the board's recommendations and rejected two proposals at their annual general meeting (PDF file) that were intended to push the company towards greater human rights engagement. The proposals, supported by Amnesty International, demanded, on the one hand, resistance against censorship efforts in countries like China and, on the other hand, the establishment of a company-internal committee for human rights." - it's all about money, not about rights or the consequences of one's own greed. They just sell out dissidents to the governments of the countries where they smell big money. Doesn't matter, they're not shareholders.
ZFS is in MacOS X 10.5 - Golem.de
ZFS is in MacOS X 10.5 - Golem.de - "ZFS is only equipped with read support and can only be used via the command line - integrated ZFS partitions cannot be written with Apple's operating system." - damn. That's useless.
Expert opinion confirms manipulability of voting computers
Expert report confirms manipulability of voting computers - will certainly be ignored by the prolethicians in Berlin, just like all other facts.
httplib2.py
httplib2.py - better HTTP library than the one in the standard library.
No labeling required: EU allows traces of GM in organic food
No labeling required: EU allows traces of GM in organic food - great. Because GM crap doesn't respect field boundaries, organic food is simply redefined and made even more meaningless than the EU organic label already is. All for commerce. The stupid little coins that are probably more important to corrupt politicians shoved up their asses by lobby groups than effective consumer protection ...
Media-Saturn parts ways with lawyer Steinhöfel
Media-Saturn parts ways with lawyer Steinhöfel - "The new head of the company, Roland Weise, is concerned about a better image in the public eye and towards the competition."
CSC may stop cycling sponsorship
CSC possibly stops cycling sponsorship - «It would be a natural decision to withdraw, send Bjarne Riis a check and ask him to remove the company logo from the bikes. This would do more for CSC's image than they could pay in Danish kroner»
Report: Twenty in a Cage, 24 Hours of Light
Reportage: Twenty in a Cage, 24 Hours of Light - "Many of the G8 critics taken into custody had to be released again. Because many were taken into custody solely due to 'suspicious hooded jackets, sunglasses, and scarves' or because of radios in their luggage, explains one of the duty lawyers."
Sun: ZFS to become the new file system in Apple''s Leopard
Sun: ZFS becomes the new file system in Apple's Leopard - hopefully not just in the server version. HFS+ is somehow more of a hack than a file system.
Camino. Mozilla Power, Mac Style
Camino. Mozilla Power, Mac Style - and in new version out. Download.
MarsEdit
MarsEdit - can also preview Markdown. Might be interesting for me, as I like to base my projects on Markdown.
Microsoft threatens its Most Valuable Professional - Do ya feel lucky, punk?
The contact lenses that could restore 20/20 vision
The contact lenses that could restore 20/20 vision - sounds interesting. Although I have been wearing my glasses for decades and they don't really bother me. Could I sleep with contact lenses?
3 awesome free Math programs
3 awesome free Math programs - Short introductions to the major players in the open source environment.
A 10-minute tutorial for solving Math problems with Maxima
A 10 minute tutorial for solving Math problems with Maxima - very interesting, Maxima seems to be much further along than when I first saw it.
Linux.com | Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG
Linux.com | Encrypt and sign Gmail messages with FireGPG - could be interesting. However, I still don't like Firefox on the Mac - it's just not a Mac application in behavior.
Pistol Shrimp
Pistol Shrimp - wow. 100km/h fast water, at 5000°C temperature (for a brief moment).
Moving iTunes Music Libraries to Removable/External Storage Media
Relocating iTunes Music Libraries to Removable/External Storage Media - this might allow me to place my iTunes Library on the server and only keep a part on my local drive. However, I would then have to sort the music myself. Too bad iTunes can't simply mount remote libraries, then I could save myself the trouble and move rarely played songs to another library.
RTL won't let itself be copied
RTL won't let itself be copied - and here I am thinking: "You don't even want RTL's garbage for free" ...
TV Ad Sound Levels
TV Ad Sound Levels - why some ads sound louder than the program, even though they are not.
SURVEILLANCE!
UBERWACH! - funny action. Turn the tables and monitor the monitors!
Astronomers Capture The First Image Of Surface Features On A Sun-like Star
Astronomers Capture The First Image Of Surface Features On A Sun-like Star - wow again.
Google Gears for WebKit
Google Gears for WebKit - an interesting approach to providing web applications locally. Basically just a smart cache, nothing more. But sometimes these low-tech approaches are simply the most efficient solutions. And nicely, they also have the whole thing ready for WebKit in the source - the downloads are only for the Mozilla family so far (and of course once again nothing for Camino).
HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc Copyable Again
HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc copyable again - Hare and Hedgehog.
Personal History: How I Spent the War
Personal History: How I Spent the War - Günther Grass on his time in the Waffen SS.
trackback - commandline client for trackbacks.
Federal Council committees for significant expansion of telecommunications surveillance
Federal Council committees for clear expansion of telecommunications surveillance - because, the police state is not yet fully and perfectly established. I hear in the background the cool giggling of former Stasi officials. They are starting to feel quite at home.
CSU: Seehofer threatens party friends with sex revelations
CSU: Seehofer threatens party friends with sex revelations - cute.
Dumb, Dumber, Bush? Mooo! - "The Bush administration said Tuesday it will fight to keep meatpackers from testing all their animals for mad cow disease."
Man described as a top spammer arrested
Man described as a top spammer arrested - and now please get the others too.
Collecting Societies Criticize Commons Project as Copyright-Enemies
Collecting Societies Criticize Commons Project as Copyright-Hostile - of course, works under CC licenses are no longer available for exploitation by collecting societies. And that's just not allowed. It's amusing how authors and artists are then put forward - and it's ignored that it's precisely the artists who are the ones who publish works under CC licenses ...
20 Ways to Use Gmail Filters
20 Ways to Use Gmail Filters - nothing groundbreaking, but a series of nice tricks for Google's webmailer.
ARD/ZDF do not want to extend tour contract for the time being
ARD/ZDF want to not extend Tour contract for now - will the media ever face their part of the responsibility for all this mess? I mean, if coverage is only about hype and normal performances are more or less completely ignored, if only the ultimate victory counts - then one should not be surprised if athletes adapt to this ideal image. The athlete takes performance-enhancing drugs, of course. But somewhere the reason for this is laid - and the image of the athlete in the public is certainly an important factor.
Federal Government Specifies Obligations for Archiving Online Content
German government specifies obligations for archiving web content - oh man, if I don't have work, I create some? Stupid people. My blog is available to everyone under a CC license. If the national library thinks it needs to be archived, they should move their virtual ass over and regularly scrape it, just like Google and others already do. Otherwise, they can leave me alone at my rear pixels ...
Court prohibits sending articles by e-mail
Court prohibits sending articles by email - always everything for the benefit of rights holders. Because they are, after all, an essential part of the education system and society. Quite the opposite of universities, which are just freeloaders. Such things must be fundamentally prevented, where would we end up if a non-profit association (founded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science) had the right to supply universities with information cost-effectively and efficiently.
GVU and Investigations
GVU and Investigations - "The employees of the GVU are not neutral experts."
Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we?
Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we? - how plastic waste accumulates in the ocean and enters the food chain (and thus onto our plates) via fish. More plastic than plankton - shocking.
Park Place, the Amazon-S3 clone - in Ruby.