Hmm. Sounds interesting - a high-performance template engine in C, with bindings for various scripting languages including Python. That could be fun to play around with - Cheetah is great, but can be a bit sluggish sometimes. An efficient template language could make it possible to provide templates to users in the Community Server as well. Let me take a look.
What is this militaristic shit supposed to be anyway? Why do we need this crap? We should actually have overcome this nonsense in Germany by now.
You can find the original article at tagesschau on the Internet and here.
This must be the most absurd reason for a product name I've ever heard
At PhotographyBLOG there's the original article.
Patents are a pain in the ass - even though I can't help but crack a smirk when Amazon now gets a taste of its own medicine.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
I had already read about it elsewhere, a really great idea that the White House came up with there. Well, the idea is so stupid that it will probably be implemented in Germany soon too... I particularly like the "are you for me or against me" question that you have to answer. Who still believes that negative votes don't go straight into the electronic shredder?
At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt there's the original article.
... at least if it continues the way it did today, with Jan Ullrich and Alexandre Vinokourov constantly attacking and keeping pace with Armstrong. The Euskatel riders Majo and especially Zubeldia attacking, and Armstrong who is really being driven into the ground. That costs strength. If this continues, it will be a very tough Tour for Armstrong. And then this final attack by Jan Ullrich on Armstrong! Wow!
An absurd story about how John Gilmore (co-founder of EFF) was denied a flight with BA from the USA to London because he was wearing a button that said "Suspected Terrorist". Well worth reading. If anyone thinks there's even a shred of sense left in this so-called war on terror - forget it.
The ridiculous license can stick it where it's eternally dark
At heise online news you can find the original article.
This practice fee for self-initiated doctor visits—even with your general practitioner—what's the point of this nonsense? In the end, it just means people won't go to the doctor to save money. And then they get really sick and end up causing hefty costs to the healthcare system when they need much more complex treatments.
It should give healthcare system reformers something to think about when someone like Geissler takes a stand against this dismantling.
At tagesschau on the Internet there's the original article.
Strike! heise online news has the original article.
Absurd. And calling something like this an "Author, Consumer and Computer Owner Protection and Security Act" is pretty audacious. How does such an excessive penalty threat protect a computer owner? But with "Protection and Security" you can apparently get any nonsense approved in the USA ...
At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt there's the original article.
Ok. Metallica's music is shit. Their web design is shit. And their behavior probably too - or why would a band come up with the idea to sue another band because they unlawfully used the chords E and F, which according to Metallica in this combination are a sign of Metallica? Mr. shit brain from heaven!
Update : Ok, apparently it's a hoax. The music and the web design are still shit though. At least I wasn't the only one who fell for it, so I'm in good company
Was expected — if an ex-Microsoft executive is running the show, it's clear that FUD replaces facts in the discussion.
At heise online news you can find the original article.
I like Tinderbox - really. Very cute program, tons of interesting features. And it's a real adventure: many features are documented nowhere and pop up somewhere at some point and you're quite amazed that it exists. At Tinderbox Wiki I found the original article.
So the pings to central directories have been running in their own background thread from the very beginning at Python Desktop Server. This is definitely recommended for http://weblogs.com and http://blo.gs. I'll continue pinging there, not because I think weblogs.com itself is important - but the changes.xml from there is used by various services as a control file to, for example, pull the RSS feed into the database at http://feedster.com/. The original article is at Der Schockwellenreiter here.
... as today's stage of the Tour shows. Jan Ullrich with a mercilessly good time, basically a demolition of the opposition. Tyler Hamilton with a fantastic time with a broken collarbone - if he hadn't crashed at the start of the Tour, I believe he would have given the favorites a serious scare this year. Vinokourov with arguably his best time trial of his career. And Lance Armstrong way behind Jan Ullrich - who took 1 minute and 35 seconds from him! And now the Pyrenees are coming! And another time trial! That makes the whole Tour as exciting as it hasn't been in years! Ullrich just 34 seconds behind Armstrong in the general classification, and Vinokourov still only 51 seconds behind Armstrong!
Wow. I'm running out of exclamation marks.
And here a newspaper proves how little it understands what the internet is all about. Here a search service is even being sued because it links directly to articles. People, think about it: if deep linking is banned, weblogs won't be allowed to link to the articles themselves anymore, only to the publisher's main pages. Anyone who sets a link would first have to check whether it's even legally feasible. Otherwise, he could be sued by such an ignorant organization.
Possibly Handelsblatt is also among those who complain about how much weblogs are displacing their quality content from Google search results.
Originally I reflexively linked to Handelsblatt. But I don't set links to such ignorant people, it could improve their Google ranking after all.
I can only hope that the BGH puts an end to this nonsense.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Hachja, how much that reminds me of the stories with Theo de Raadt in the NetBSD project. Especially the reasoning comes across as very familiar to me
At heise online news there is the original article.
As usual, the linked list is missing the Python Desktop Server again. Unbelievable! By the way, there's now also a Windows installation package for Python Desktop Server available at http://simon.bofh.ms/~louis/. The original article can be found on netbib weblog.
It's like this: how much content disappears behind paywalls or registration barriers? Google and other search engines don't register! How much content disappears behind format barriers? Google does open some common formats, but not all and not in all variations. How much content disappears behind no-linking barriers? Content in proprietary formats simply don't have links pointing into them - and therefore have poor Google rankings too. The same applies to deep-linking preventers.
Example: those dreadful Flash movies where, sensibly enough, the "Skip Intro" link is inside the Flash movie instead of outside in HTML. And where do these geniuses place such a traversal preventer? Right on the homepage. So every bot already fails at the index.html and doesn't search further. Just like everyone who doesn't have Flash. Or everyone who is, for example, visually impaired.
People, get this straight once and for all: you all have a blind buddy, and that's Google (and its colleagues). Sites with poor accessibility, with JavaScript-programmed links instead of normal links, with too much Flash and proprietary formats - all of that makes life difficult not only for the blind, but also for search engines, which are still significantly blinder. You're not only excluding a population group, you're excluding yourselves from the internet infrastructure (links and search engines). And then you expect sympathy?
Instead of thinking it through and putting the content out there, preparing it and linking it where and how it's reachable for search engines, you'd rather spend vast sums on search engine optimizers to push your meager content up in Google. And then of course you're offended when stupid weblogs simply climb up, just because they work exactly as search engine programmers currently imagine it ...
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Don't worry, the politicians will manage to prevent any influence of reality and facts on their actions. We can rely on one thing: once politicians have found a scapegoat, no statistics from the Federal Statistical Office will stop them from continuing to spread their false opinion into the world ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Cute. But I'm somehow not in the mood to do that for Münster. Looks like work. Doesn't one of the others here feel like it?
At Nochn Blogg. there's the original article.
"A kick to the buttocks of a subordinate employee is not part of a supervisor's occupational activities, even if it is done with the intention of promoting performance." LAG Düsseldorf, Az.: 12 (18) Sa 196/98 Note to self: do not kick employees.
At Zickenterror you can find the original article.
Ok, I think things could get tough for Bush now. If CNN puts little children in the news who don't like Bush, then that could be the beginning of his downfall. I mean, what could be worse than little children who don't like Bush? Maybe there's a video where Bush kicks a dog?
I found the original article at Warblogs:CC.
A point that is often overlooked in discussions about the Mozilla Foundation as the new custodian of the Mozilla browser is its significance in the realm of commercial browsers. Netscape will probably definitely die, and AOL apparently has no more interest in it (according to Zeldman's source, they're even removing the logos). Mozilla will probably only exist as a free product from now on, and commercial Netscapes will likely disappear in the long run. So AOL is surrendering the territory without a fight to Microsoft and the open source variants of Mozilla.
I can't say I'm surprised by this - AOL never had real interest in Netscape anyway; it was just a means to an end, and with the latest agreement with Microsoft, that means has become superfluous. For AOL, it was never about browser freedom in the antitrust proceedings against Microsoft.
In the end, the user is left behind, because Internet Explorer with its lousy implementation can dominate the market a little bit more - unless Mozilla establishes itself on a broader scale, but that will probably now happen less through companies pushing it and more only through users themselves.
It's a shame. Kindermann is at least one of the last manufacturers of good - and above all affordable - medium format projectors. It would really be a pity if this quite old company were to disappear. Let's hope that the restructuring works and Kindermann is preserved and there's still room for the old products.
At dotcomtod you can find the original article.
Ok, are there any dumber leisure activities than chasing naked women with paint guns? Update: It's a hoax. The original article is at lies.com.
We are Apple. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.
Oh no :( - I still remember well when she first appeared on our television and snorted and slobbered over the pool edge. What a shame.
I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.
Yep. I really see it that way. PDF is nice enough as a transport format for print output. And as a basis for the Quartz engine in OS X. But in the browser as a page format, that's silly. I'm really annoyed by all these constantly linked PDF files - does creating HTML versions really take people so much effort? When I want to view a price list, I don't want to have to launch Acrobat or Preview first, just to have another window open. You can render that as HTML too. Silly people.
Just as silly as this Macromedia vision (yeah, I have visions like that too - after enjoying a pepperoni pizza with extra cheese) building everything with this horrible (and discriminatory) Flash-MX.
At Der Schockwellenreiter there's the original article.
Oh yes, how nice, we will certainly get by in our language without the letter between S and U. I have hardly ever needed to use this letter in this entire text (ok, except in the title, but that is a citation). You can read everything just fine without the letter between S and U ...
At heise online news there is the original article.
Dubya has now completely lost touch with reality. Did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? Yes, definitely. And we gave him the chance to let inspectors investigate it, but he refused - well, the world might have a somewhat different view of reality than Dubya on this point, for example the weapons inspectors who were in Iraq and had to leave because the war-hungry US government preferred to play with bombs instead of waiting for the results ... I found the original article at Warblogs:CC.
Because there are constantly searches for baby animals on my website, here's the link to the page at Allwetterzoo Münster about young animals
... as Alexandre Vinokourov and Joseba Beloki had to experience today. Alexandre Vinokourov wins his first stage victory and closes the gap to Lance Armstrong to just 20 seconds, Joseba Beloki crashes badly and ends the Tour in an ambulance. On one hand, you're pleased about this year's very interesting Tour with many attacks, on the other hand, bad crashes are simply the price riders sometimes have to pay. In this case, it was probably just softened asphalt that tore at Joseba Beloki's rear wheel. Hopefully it looked worse than it actually is, so that he has to end this Tour but not his career :-(
Still, big praise for Alexandre Vinokourov for a great ride to the finish - the attack came at exactly the right time, his strength was already clearly visible, he saved everything well for the final attack. Wow.
Phew, at least it all sounds like repairable fractures and no serious permanent damage — given the speed at which the fall likely happened, it could easily have been much worse. Let's hope Beloki can show Armstrong his teeth again in next year's Tour.
It's amusing to watch an otherwise intelligent person (virtually of course only - I'm grateful that I probably don't have to witness the personal breakdowns that are taking place), desperately trying to get Linux to work and blaming Linux, throwing snide comments about Linux vs. Windows. I mean, the guy writes books, he's a co-author of the Cluetrain Manifesto, has an academic degree, but he's not able to buy and read a beginner's book about Linux before installing a completely new operating system. Classic case of overqualification - too smart to learn.
At Joho the Blog there's the original article.
Recommended blog by the CSS developer in the Safari team. You always get nice insights into what's coming and are pleased that Safari is becoming increasingly complete in CSS so you can finally use all those nice features (and then look down on Microsoft's inferior implementations).
It would just be nice if at least the Gecko people would keep up too (they've already implemented a lot, certainly better than IE), then us Safari people wouldn't be so alone...
You can find the original article at Surfin Safari — here.
That's clear to me. To stay with Armstrong on such a grueling stage with a broken collarbone and keep up so well, even attacking at times, is already a superb performance. Though also a bit crazy. But you probably have to be that way if you want to ride the Tour...
So today's stage was simply fantastic. Aldag was in the breakaway group from the start, got caught up at one point, then attacked hard and scored a fantastic second place on the stage. Great stuff.
And Virenque also impressed with his stage win and taking the yellow jersey - even if it's probably only for one day. Good on him.
That's the kind of Tour I love, with surprises and strong performances. Excellent.
And no matter how much you design the casing, at the end of the day your Sony still only has PC junk inside, it will never become a Mac
At heise online news you can find the original article.
A small outing for a rubber duck, but a great success for mankind (Ernie would be proud, as would Mr. Müller-Lüdenscheidt and Mr. Dr. Klöbner)
At Spiegel Online: Science you can find the original article.
I'm still waiting to see how these union idiots think extending working hours will reduce the 4.5 million unemployed and not instead produce a future number of 6 million unemployed
At tagesschau on the internet there's the original article.
Nice. The Squeak VM for the Zaurus. I'll give that a try when I have time. The Zaurus with Smalltalk on it would be just the right thing to play around with on the go.
Cool. I always knew that Visual Basic was pretty ridiculous, and that Java causes stress
Hmm. So if neither AOL nor Freenet themselves monitor traffic (which I'm inclined to believe), then that means the mere accusation by a third party (some representatives of the music industry) with evidence created by them (since no one can verify whether their log file excerpts have any connection to reality) is sufficient to threaten a user with contract termination? That the music industry has a very strange relationship with its rights is well known - they like to adopt a "shoot first, ask questions later" behavior. But the fact that providers are now complying out of excessive deference is already concerning. Where are consumer rights in all this? This simply opens the door wide to arbitrariness. And that the self-proclaimed internet experts of the music industry would have scruples about simply blanketly accusing file-sharing users, well, no one will believe that, will they? There's also the question of how they actually want to prove anything. Most file-sharing networks work in such a way that the actual transfers (and only these are potentially rights violations) take place between file-sharing users themselves - that is, from host to host. Other computers in the system normally don't notice anything. So someone must be putting data on the network that is subject to foreign copyright, and wait until the transfer takes place. In Germany, I believe that falls under "incitement to commit a crime" - and whether a provider should then cancel a user's contract on such a basis, I do find questionable. Not that file-sharing networks particularly interest me - but the whole procedure stinks to high heaven. It's the same nonsense as the incitement to copyright infringement that a Munich aristocrat pulled off years ago.
At heise online news there's the original article.
And darn it, just an old pile of junk in space
At Astronomical Trivia there's the original article.
So something like that. Petacchi is racking up victory after victory and Zabel is lagging behind? Come on, Erik, get pedaling!
I found the original article at tagesschau on the internet.
Why does a citizen in Germany have to feel, with every decision made by politicians, that they've been betrayed and sold out? That their own interests - even when it's the opinion of a majority - don't interest a single politician? That all politicians are either corrupt or let themselves be controlled by business, with corporate interests standing far above the will of citizens?
And why is every piece of nonsense always sold to us again by politicians as supposed commitment or even a victory for consumers or something equally great, when in reality it just means we've been screwed over once more?
But where the Federal Gerd spends their vacation is apparently a much more important decision...
Maybe Jutta will finally quit smoking then.
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Ouch. Teleinfo doesn't seem to be particularly clever about this. Well, at least Heise's lawyers have something to do during the summer slump.
The original article can be found at heise online news - here.