Create SL Objects in Blender — If You Dare - very interesting, a bridge between Blender and SecondLive - Offline content creation could be possible.
Archive 2.5.2006 - 6.6.2006
Sony: 10-Megapixel camera with a duster from the alpha series - not so stupid, what Sony has made from Minolta.
Caller ID Spoofing - what is worse than a broken authorization system? One that millions of people and machines trust.
Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen? - Evidence that the 2004 election in the USA was anything but clean.
OLG Frankfurt: Online-Demonstration ist keine Gewalt - hopefully online demonstrations will now really be treated the same way and considered according to the same criteria as real demonstrations.
Digital rangefinder camera Epson R-D1s is coming - and doesn't sound bad at all, the price has come down significantly. So I will probably postpone any camera purchases until after Photokina.
StepTalk(GNU Scripting Framework) - now available in a version for Mac OS X!
The Illustrated Nethack Monsters - an image for every character monster from Nethack.
Basso outclasses the competition - one could certainly say that at the Giro. Ok, the competition for the Tour was of course not completely present (Ullrich only as a teammate and Vinokourov was missing), but still a strong performance.
Offended Italian salami - in any case, that's the impression Simoni gives me. Somehow it seems to be missing for him that his times are probably over.
The source code for UCSD-Pascal is free - for fans of old languages and old operating systems. Oh man, that was the first Pascal environment I hacked on at school almost 24 years ago ...
Feedjack - A Django+Python Powered Feed Aggregator (Planet) - could perhaps be used as a replacement for the rather outdated WordPress at metaowl.de?
Microsoft wants »cooperating editorial teams« - Heise isn't what it used to be either. Even the IX is starting to look like a bulletin board for Microsoft in some places ...
PL/1 for GCC - for fans of old languages.
PyCells and peak.events - Phillip J. Eby on Cells and what they mean for event-oriented programming. Particularly interesting, as one of the projects in the Google Summer of Code is a Python implementation of the Cell concept.
Theory for cloaking devices - Invisiprims for RL ... (SL-Insider-Joke, sorry)
US Patent Office rejects claims in Forgent's JPEG patent - hopefully the rest of their silly patent will be invalidated as well.
Medallia Blog: SmackBook Pro - use the motion sensor of the new MacBook Pro to switch between virtual desktops. Just give the MacBook Pro a slap ...
O’Reilly trademarks “Web 2.0″ and sets lawyers on IT@Cork! » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views - and demands a name change of a conference not organized by them. Well, Web 2.0 is just marketing jargon ...
Safari Tidy plugin - tidy as a Safari plugin. Nice. Safari is slowly growing up.
x48 emulator - and on the Nokia Pad! Genius, hopefully there will soon be an installable package.
Picture pinches in front of flower
And he has the appropriate answer to the editor-in-chief of this sleazy rag:
You're shitting your pants that the machinations of the BILD newspaper will be revealed in the debate I proposed. That's the reason for your cancellation. You even ran away from the Monitor editorial team when they wanted to ask you uncomfortable questions. You're a coward!
Are you generic? - Wilson Miner describes how he, as a non-programmer, can create applications himself without programmer assistance using Django and its simple generic view functions.
Free42 for Zaurus X/Qt and Nokia 770 - an HP42S emulator that runs on the Nokia tablet. Brilliant.
MyTunesRSS - nice little tool, starts a web server and generates dynamic podcast feeds (as well as a simple web interface) from the iTunes library.
Rogue Amoeba - Nicecast for Mac OS X - Stream iTunes to a ShoutCast server (or locally on the LAN).
Klinikstreik: Are cash patients not emergencies? - the types of surgeries performed despite the strike, I'm not surprised. But the strong preference for private patients that comes through - something like this can already reduce the acceptance of the doctors' strike.
US judge dismisses Masri's torture lawsuit against CIA - fuck human rights. When will there finally be sanctions against this unjust regime?
MGTalk - Google Talk for mobile - unfortunately doesn't work on my V600i yet. No idea why.
What Happened To Dynamic Range - Dynamic range in CD recordings and the (negative) development over the years.
Adactio: Journal - The ugly American - yep, Paul Graham == Wanker. After all, if he really spouted such nonsense.
Kauder warns against the publication of the BND report - due to alleged endangerment of the work of the BND. That this work of the BND endangers our constitutional rights, of course, does not matter at all ...
New MacBooks - sorry, but a notebook with chipset graphics instead of mobile ATI and then still 5 cm wider and 1 cm deeper - something like that is no replacement for a 12" PowerBook. I hope Apple comes to their senses ...
Debunking Linus's Latest - Shapiro also has a few thoughts to share about Linus's latest misstep.
Nokia Announces the Internet Tablet 2006 OS Update - very nice, especially since the new release will also work for the old tablet. However, the update is a bit tricky - reinstallation of all applications and data ...
Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate, Part II - Tanenbaum's counterarguments to Linus' Microkernel-stupid claim ...
In the mills of welfare - what it used to mean to be a foster child - and what it might mean again?
RWE: The profit that came from the cold - if anyone now thinks this will change the prices downward, forget it. We also have to continue financing RWE's nonsensical expenses in other industries.
Nokia will preinstall Google Talk - not bad, especially since Google Talk is based on Jabber.
Schneier on Security: Major Vulnerability Found in Diebold Election Machines - is this finally the end for this dreadful Diebold disaster? Or will they try to wriggle out of it again and suppress the reports?
Bluetooth SIG - Idiots at the Helm
Whoever wonders which Bluetooth hardware works with BlueZ (Bluetooth stack for Linux) will come across the following statement from the Bluetooth SIG on the compatibility list:
Whether or not you're selling them makes no difference. The problem is due to the distribution of them from your Web site. Please note that the use and distribution of non-qualified products is a violation of the Bluetooth License Agreement. As neither of these products have been qualified using Linux it is illegal to make them available for public use.
Due to this idiotic attitude, it is no longer possible to refer to the compatibility of Bluetooth products with Linux on holtmann.org. Can it get any more stupid?
heise online - LG Düsseldorf: Forenhaftung erst ab Kenntnis des Rechtsverstoßes - great legal certainty. Now there are two contradictory rulings on the same topic.
Rotten Effort - how Microsoft tries to pressure consultants in companies with almost extortionate tactics ...
HashCaml - an extension of Objective Caml, which allows type-safe data to be serialized and deserialized. Basis for example for remote function calls.
Off to the Welfare State?
ZAF does not recognize the FRG at all - and I also have my difficulties finding what I once understood as a youngster under the FRG. That I once took an oath to a constitution in a Trachtenverein, which was so undermined and shattered by the proletarians in Berlin, is somehow absurd. Ok, the whole Trachtenverein is absurd, but the oath to the constitution is completely ridiculed if it is so easy for politics to throw the basic values overboard.
Django for non-programmers - Django from a web designer's perspective.
Rolf wins his own farewell race - Goodbye Rolf!
Django Weblog "magic-removal" branch merged - gaaaah. Work. Crap.
How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm - a practical guide || kuro5hin.org - well. doesn't sound very nice, the method.
Workbench: Settlement Reached with Dave Winer - and now Dave Winer has lost his last advocate that one could still take seriously. Well. Will Dave now taste his own medicine? So far, he was the one who has put others down in blogs ...