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United States Patent Application: 0060242178

United States Patent Application: 0060242178 - tagging, commenting, etc. on media, such as images, videos, etc. Will Yahoo then probably sell patent rights to Google (YouTube)?

3D Game Textures: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop: Books: Luke Ahearn

3D Game Textures: Create Professional Game Art Using Photoshop: Books: Luke Ahearn - just blogged to remind myself to get it later (be careful, Amazon link).

Coccinella | Jabber client with integrated whiteboard

Coccinella | Jabber client with integrated whiteboard - multiplatform, apparently in TCL (at least extendable in TCL).

Demands for a ban on killer games are getting louder

Demands for banning killer games are getting louder - funny. I am absolutely sure that you cannot get firearms in a computer game that you can then use to shoot around in real life. But politics does not ask about the origin of the weapons, only that computer games must be banned (whereas games glorifying violence are already banned - banning more than banning somehow doesn't do anything, does it?). Activism instead of thinking.

The Dark Side of Game Texturing: Books: David Franson

The Dark Side of Game Texturing: Books: David Franson - another book (again Amazon, sorry) about textures.

Cracked it!

Cracked it! - and what did they crack? The British RFID passport.

Getting Cute with the GPL - don't do it.

Microsoft-CEO: Linux ''uses our intellectual property''

Microsoft-Chef: Linux "nutzt unser geistiges Eigentum" - FUD.

Online price comparison for dental patients prohibited

Online price comparison for dental patients banned - the panic fear of the informed patient.

Shooting at School in Emsdetten

Shooting at School in Emsdetten - Detten? School shooter? What's going on here?

Stopping spam with the Anti-Spam-SMTP-Proxy (ASSP)

Stopping spam with the Anti-Spam-SMTP-Proxy (ASSP) - hmm. Transparent SMTP proxy. Unfortunately in Perl - my experiences in that direction were rather negative so far.

If I dig a very deep hole, where do I stop?

If I dig a very deep hole, where do I end up? - cool Google Map Mashup - select a point and calculate where a deep hole through the Earth comes out.

The Zfone Project

The Zfone Project - Encryption-Proxy for VOIP Clients.

Email account only with ID card?

E-Mail account only with ID card? - ok, if this goes through, we can say goodbye to any form of reason on the Internet. And anyone who still offers services as a provider should think carefully about it ...

StudiVZ - The Hitler Screenshot and the Buyer Facebook

StudiVZ - The Hitler Screenshot and the Buyer Facebook - hey, hello toilet, here arm of fool. Or something like that. Up to the shoulder.

The Lotto-Proxy

The Lotto Mandatory Proxy - once again, a huge drama. Due to the lottery monopoly, are we facing new nonsense blocking demands? In what kind of banana republic do we actually live here ...

E-Voting

E-Voting - the PTB in a state of explanation. The PTB director comes across as quite helpless in that interview.

Free Voters feel blackmailed: Koch dismisses allegations as ''absurd''

Freie Wähler feel blackmailed: Koch dismisses allegations as "absurd" - something new from our strangest "democrat" from Hesse ...

Merkel advocates for more surveillance despite high security

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 ...

Guidelines for Platonic Friendship -

JMRI Defense: Our Story So Far

JMRI Defense: Our Story So Far - about the fight of a model railway project against a scammer.

Judge strengthens data protection for insured persons

Richter strengthen data protection for insured parties - it would be nice if this also applied to other insurances (e.g. dental supplementary insurance) ...

From Basso to Discovery

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 - Plitvice Lakes National Park - waterfalls, Plitvice, Croatia

Croatia - Plitvicka Jezera National Park - waterfalls, Plitvicka, Croatia - very beautiful nature photographs.

Interior Minister Schünemann: T-Mobile Hinders Criminal Investigation

Interior Minister Schünemann: T-Mobile obstructs law enforcement - cute. T-Online only accepts location determination orders from authorities via an expensive 0900 number.

THE INTERNETS

TEH INTERNETS - Chat abbreviations explained graphically.

Woo Math: Steiner and Theosophical Math

Woo Math: Steiner and Theosophical Math - Waldorf-Quark from a different angle.

CSSEdit

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

The Myths of Employers - about employer FUD.

Fefe's Blog

Fefe's Blog about the endgame fantasies of the US military. Does this all sound damn familiar to anyone?

JumpBox

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

Perian - The swiss-army knife of QuickTime® components - free plugin to play a lot of video formats with the Quicktime Player.

Statistics about copyright infringements are exaggerated

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 “people's community”

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

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

Efficient JavaScript - you should definitely go through it, can't hurt.

Fission for Mac OS X

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

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.

Personnel Selection by Facial Analysis: Telltale Bump on the Head

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 is not allowed to store connection data

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

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

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

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 up journalist

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."

Job protection: Glos'' plans under criticism

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)