Rasmussen wins, Landis collapses
Rasmussen wins, Landis collapses - and the entire ranking is thrown into disarray. And I'm sitting (sweating) at the office and can't watch live.
Content-type: matter-transport/sentient-life-form
The Ugly Truth: Our President is an Imbecile - Russia is big and so is China.
IT Industry Association Wants Immigration to Combat Skilled Labor Shortage
IT-Branchenverband will Zuwanderung gegen Fachkräftemangel - of course, immigration is important in today's world and should not be unnecessarily blocked. But still, I somehow believe that the shortage of skilled workers can be remedied through training in companies. Preferably then also foreign young people in the training positions, to get the curve back to integration. And at the same time address a series of social problems that are initially triggered by the hopeless economic situation of young people ...
Just Another Opinion
Another opinion - on the crisis in and around Israel. I'm still missing the hint that politicians in Europe and the USA (and the former USSR) now see this crisis as a welcome opportunity for their image care ... (and everyone is busily selling more weapons to both sides)
Numbers station
Numbers station - these strange shortwave stations that only read streams of numbers.
Debian Hack: Intruder Exploited Known Vulnerability
Debian-Hack: Intruder exploited known vulnerability - quick reaction and resolution, that's good. Kernel on a several-hundred-user system not updated in time, that's rather bad.
Garfield: Permanent Monday
Garfield: Permanent Monday - Garfield comics analyzed.
Gizmo - A free phone for your computer
Gizmo – A free phone for your computer - now also available for the Nokia 770 tablet!
Magnolia Hall Victorian Furniture - don't ask.
beaTunes ~ build better playlists
beaTunes ~ build better playlists - automatically analyze and classify iTunes libraries.
Pink Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett has died
Pink-Floyd-Co-founder Syd Barrett has died - shine on, you crazy diamond.
Blue People of Kentucky - strange ...
The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources
The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources - exactly what it says on the tin. Fascinating.
Enigma Homepage
Enigma Homepage - an Oxyd-lookalike for various platforms.
Galileo Encryption Cracked
Galileo encryption cracked - and thus the door is open for free decoders.
Landis has Osteonecrosis
Landis has osteonecrosis - Top favorite has an injury that prevents him from even getting on his bike properly: Floyd Landis has a bad hip and will get a new one in the fall.
Oxyd Extra
Oxyd Extra - a continuation of Oxyd, the old marble game.
Patent on Social Networking
Patent on Social Networking - goes to friendster in the USA. Idiotic.
Suitable Systems / SeisMac
Suitable Systems / SeisMac - Record vibrations with the Sudden Motion Sensor of the MacBook Pro.
CLPython - an implementation of Python in Common Lisp
CLPython - an implementation of Python in Common Lisp - ok, that's already crazy.
The World Champion in Green and Yellow
The world champion in green and yellow - already crazy. World champion jersey, green jersey and then also the yellow jersey. Boonen's year.
Grand Coalition Agrees on Tightening Anti-Terror Laws
Grand coalition agrees on tightening anti-terrorism laws - well, that was obvious. All the surveillance measures so far have not brought any significant success, so they cheer each other on in Berlin and expand them right away. Fits the picture of Berlin's intellectual poverty.
Well, it works!
Well, that's how it's done! - Kessler wins the stage and Voigt does what he does best: break away, lead the race and get caught just before the finish line.
Basso also involved in doping scandal?
Basso also involved in doping scandal? - ouch. That would be a real shock if Basso is suspended as well. Then the Tour would become really exciting, as none of the favorites (Ullrich, Vinokurov, Basso) would take part.
Supreme Court: Guantanamo Tribunals Illegal
Supreme Court: Guantanamo tribunals illegal - well, it's annoying that this was only determined at the end of Dubbya's term. It would have been nice if someone - for example, from the US opposition - had sued earlier.
Texture Shop
Textureshop - generates tileable textures based on parameters for random generators. Interesting idea, can definitely deliver nice results with some tinkering.
Ullrich, Sevilla and Pevenage temporarily suspended
Ullrich, Sevilla and Pevenage temporarily suspended - consistent with the self-commitment of the Pro-Tour teams, only logical if the Spanish police have sufficient initial suspicion for an investigation. But somehow I have the feeling that, regardless of the outcome of the investigation, Jan Ullrich will hang up his cycling shoes.
heise online - Google convicted for links to counterfeit products
Google sentenced for links to counterfeiters
Filtering out the pages of counterfeiters would have been possible, explained the Paris Court of Appeal. This has shown the filtering of politically undesirable pages in China.
Well, exactly what could be expected. One's own fault - if on the one hand you preach free opinion and how great everything is that you do and how un-evil, then on the other hand you should keep your fingers off state censorship ...
OMG Girlz Don’t Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1
OMG Girlz Don’t Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1 - hilarious.
Wells Grants in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims! In Large Part.
Wells Grants in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims! In Large Part. - wow. SCO has been heavily rejected here.
Bank data extorted from SWIFT
Bank data extorted from SWIFT - Bank secrecy? Data protection? Pfft. Forget it. The question remains: which damage is greater: that caused by terrorism, or that caused by the alleged fight against terrorism.
Conversation with Boston Volkswagen
Conversation with Boston Volkswagen - Paul Graham wants to buy a car ...
iView Multimedia acquired by Microsoft
Microsoft acquires iView Multimedia - well, that makes my decision to switch to something else (probably Lightroom) even easier. iView Media Pro was already a shaky affair under the original manufacturer, and then adding Microsoft's "expertise" on top of that ...
Tinderbox: Tinderbox 3.5
Tinderbox: Tinderbox 3.5 - many features sound interesting, but somehow this will be the Emacs of the outliner ...
Shrinking for Health Insurance?
Shrinking health insurance companies? - oh yes, first privatization and opening are allegedly the key to happiness. Then the small insurers (who are often the more efficient ones) are to be destroyed. Does anyone still believe that our politics are not bought?
30 Billion Donation for Bill Gates
30-Billion Donation for Bill Gates - one can certainly appreciate that. If one day all that remains of Bill Gates is his foundation, that wouldn't be such a bad outcome. For that, one can also swallow this perversion of operating systems, as a large part of the economy is involved in humanitarian projects.
58 professionals involved in Spanish affair
58 professionals involved in Spanish affair - the Spaniards are probably running out of cyclists this year ...
Brown bear Bruno killed by hunters
Brown bear Bruno killed by hunters - the problem bear just didn't want to respect the no-go areas ...
The State Disempowers Itself
If you follow their arguments, you get the impression that the country is being ruled by criminals, unscrupulous people, and the mentally ill, who are renovating public property to the detriment of the citizens and in the service of private companies for their own benefit.
Well noticed.
Exploring Cocoa with F-Script
Exploring Cocoa with F-Script - interesting article about the object system of OS X
Freenode hacked
Freenode hacked - Operator account compromised. If you have passwords there, better change them and make sure the passwords used there are not used elsewhere ...
Abuse of Unemployment Benefits: ''Our Image of Humanity Was Too Positive''
Hartz-IV fraud: 'Our image of man was too positive' - well, my image of Struck was probably too positive. So he is just as much of a fool as the other proletarians in Berlin ...
Microsoft buries WinFS
Microsoft buries WinFS - which turns the hopelessly delayed Vista into a pure farce.
Python Cheese Shop : saprfc 0.08
Python Cheatsheet : saprfc 0.08 - another SAP-RFC module for Python.
Despite rising sales, industry cuts jobs
Despite rising sales, industry is cutting jobs - and yet prolethicians still believe in regulation by the economy.
Sale of NRW-University Hospitals?
Sale of NRW University Hospitals? - oh yes, privatization. Alleged panacea of our time. In reality, just as much quackery as snake oil.
DrScheme
DrScheme - the best Scheme implementation in the world now has a new version 350. This version includes, among other changes, a Just-in-Time-Compiler for Intel and PPC.
Generic Table Relations
Generic Table Relations for Django. Very interesting, this makes things like tags in data models much easier. I should be able to get rid of a lot of stuff from my Stuff-Library with this.