Freie Wähler feel blackmailed: Koch dismisses allegations as "absurd" - something new from our strangest "democrat" from Hesse ...
Archive 31.10.2006 - 13.11.2006
Merkel advocates for more surveillance despite high security - they can't get enough. Meanwhile, they don't even bother to come up with lies anymore ...
JMRI Defense: Our Story So Far - about the fight of a model railway project against a scammer.
Richter strengthen data protection for insured parties - it would be nice if this also applied to other insurances (e.g. dental supplementary insurance) ...
Basso to Discovery - well, Discovery has experience with captains under doping suspicion. After all, they have won 7 Tours this way. The self-commitment of the Pro-Tour teams is worth nothing.
Croatia - Plitvicka Jezera National Park - waterfalls, Plitvicka, Croatia - very beautiful nature photographs.
Interior Minister Schünemann: T-Mobile obstructs law enforcement - cute. T-Online only accepts location determination orders from authorities via an expensive 0900 number.
TEH INTERNETS - Chat abbreviations explained graphically.
Woo Math: Steiner and Theosophical Math - Waldorf-Quark from a different angle.
CSSEdit - looks interesting, GUI editor for stylesheets. However, I am still a fanatical vi user when it comes to HTML and CSS ...
The Myths of Employers - about employer FUD.
Fefe's Blog about the endgame fantasies of the US military. Does this all sound damn familiar to anyone?
JumpBox - not such a bad idea: virtual machines with pre-installed software, not just for testing, but directly as a productive environment.
Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components - free plugin to play a lot of video formats with the Quicktime Player.
Statistics on copyright infringements are exaggerated - never trust a statistic you haven't faked yourself.
Study: Every fourth German wishes for a single party of the "Volksgemeinschaft" - how we like to tell ourselves that this is all just a fringe phenomenon, and how wrong this claim is. Ultimately a failure of politics and the education system, but also of society itself.
Data protection expert openly talks about the path to a surveillance state - don't worry, won't impress anyone, we'll continue as planned. Civil rights don't interest anyone anymore.
Efficient JavaScript - you should definitely go through it, can't hurt.
Fission for Mac OS X - lossless audio file editing. Nice addition to Audio Hijacker by the same manufacturer, e.g. for recording life events on the internet ...
inches - yikes!
Light Zone - interesting tool for image editing. Not too expensive, demo available, in Java (and actually portable across multiple platforms). Sounds at least interesting for a test.
Personal selection via facial analysis: Telltale bump on the head - "Phrenology was ultimately also the basis for the racial science popular during the Nazi era".
Judgment: T-Online may not store connection data - unfortunately only for one customer and for everyone else another lawsuit would be necessary. Such an absurd thing - the BGH finds that T-Online acts unlawfully, but simply ignores that they will continue to do so for a million (or however many) other users ... this is then called a rule of law ...
VIA closes driver sources - it would be best to simply boycott VIA. Somehow, the company is just too arrogant.
World Mysteries - Voynich Manuscript - strange ...
Ballmer Invites Patent Talks with Competing Linux Vendors - well, now it seems Microsoft is trying to crack the Linux market. They will look pretty stupid if they only reach the commercial distributions and the free distributions just give them the middle finger ...
Bill Gates warns of digital divide in Germany - "Their goal is to make four million people fit for dealing with information technology in professional life by 2010." - well, "to indoctrinate for Microsoft products" probably describes the goals of an MS campaign better. And our politicians obediently hold the ladder.
Brandenburg: Neonazis beat journalist - now politicians will of course once again spew out a mountain of affectedness babble and talk about isolated incidents. And about how there is of course no neo-Nazi problem in Brandenburg. And how the authorities of course took completely excusable so long. But the truth, no one wants to speak it - that the brown filth continues to rise and we are already far beyond "beginning problems."
Kündigungsschutz: Glos' Pläne in der Kritik - cute, how our proletarians, through their blinkers, only see exactly the small part they want to see. Because the guaranteed support for the unemployed over a period of up to 4 years with 80% of the last income (which means that the benefits in Denmark are higher than they have ever been here!), this is simply ignored. They are just proletarians, not politicians ... (but that the media does not clearly point this out, that is an absolute disgrace)
Millions of Europeans sat in the dark - it's already embarrassing how they all mocked the Americans before, and now a simple shutdown of a line is causing Europe-wide problems ...
Programming in Color - colorful pixels make a program. Insane.
Torque : TGE - interesting engine for networked games. Multiplatform (Windows, Mac and Linux), source code included and low hardware requirements. However, not distributed, networked worlds.
British attack on Deutsche Telekom - oh yes, now the locusts will certainly be discussed away again, because it can't be what can't be - that capitalism is stupid and short-sighted.
The end of Second Life: Picture coming! - the Blöd reporters now also want to invade SL. Well, here's to that.
Corrupted Pharmaceutical Research - why the call for stronger industry engagement in public research is a bad idea. And why we already know this today.
Man removes sharp hand tool from rear at gunpoint - you can't reach into a naked man's pocket, but you can pull a hidden weapon out of his ass ...
THANK GOODNESS! by Daniel C Dennett - In the long run, I think religious people can be asked to live up to the same moral standards as secular people in science and medicine.
[The Parable of the Two Programmers](http://www.csd.uwo.ca/staff/magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audience/The Parable of the Two Programmers.html) - that's how it works.
With Microscope and Tweezers: Chronology - 18 years ago yesterday, the first Internet worm struck.
Artists in Metal—Mark Ho - if anyone is still looking for something for me for Christmas ...
Explosion shakes PayPal headquarters - someone must have wanted to blow up the bank?
Banknotes dissolving - I had imagined the depreciation of money differently ...
Jamendo : Mach die Ohren auf - another CC music portal. Looks quite nice, a bit hypy, but hyping might be important for CC music right now.
NASA will repair Hubble space telescope after all - well, that's that. It can be done.
The "C is Efficient" Language Fallacy - shot down. Again. Will they ever stop?
The Django Book - progressive Beta-Releases of the Django Book chapters on the web (with information on when the chapters go online).
Fewer rights for works councils in the public sector - Co-determination? Annoying. Get rid of it.
World's smallest fish title in dispute, new marine species is 20% smaller - parasitär lebende Männchen, die sich für den Rest ihres Lebens am Weibchen festbeißen und nur aus Hoden bestehen. Äh ...
Charlie's Diary: "The book is not that interesting, as tales of desperation and survival are actually quite common." - Buchkritiken auf Amazon. And then they voted.