America the gullible

Oh Man: A Hoax is Circulating

A hoax is currently making the rounds in which images from the film Armageddon show an exploding shuttle. The images are being passed off as pictures from a spy satellite, claiming to show the Columbia. The embarrassing part: apparently members of the American military and Homeland Security are also distributing this stuff. Very reassuring. When will they launch a first strike against the suspected terrorists who allegedly attacked the shuttle? After all, you could easily present the images to the UN as proof of Hussein's rogue state status. Sure, the images are fake, but better than the false evidence Rumsfeld presented to the UN.

The original article can be found at Workbench - here.

Customize Apple X11 1

Jutta continues to tinker with X11 and has written two posts about configuring XTerms and other details.

At Hexentanz I found the original article.

Möllemann wants to stay in the FDP

Hmm. I also question whether it's a good strategy to harshly attack both the former party chairman Genscher and the current party leader Westerwelle if one wants to remain in the FDP.

Mental dissolution of a boxer? I mean, he's often referred to as a boxer, and many of them have a soft brain after years of boxing, from all the blows ...

At tagesschau on the internet you can find the original article.

Monitor Report on American Diplomacy

Monitor is running a report on American coercion of undecided candidates in the UN Security Council. African states are being presented with a clear choice: either be left completely isolated economically or cooperate. Chile is being blackmailed with the failure of economic negotiations. Overall, a diplomacy of extortion and bribery. Crowned by the spying on UN diplomats. With the goal of killing people.

Also interesting (in a very horrific way) are the photos of war victims (by Stanley Green and others). Everyone should remember that precision weapons are nothing more than weapons that kill people - and that the precision is just a lie. Unfortunately, hardly anyone really wants to see that - people prefer to convince themselves that war is as clean as American military propaganda (among others) depicts it. Collateral damage could just as easily be us - or any other civilian who happens to be in the wrong place. Even if that wrong place is their home, and all they do is live there.

Clutter

Cool. Absolutely cool. A bit buggy, but still cool.

You can find the original article at Ben Hammersley.com.

Memorial ride for deceased cyclist Kiwilew

That's a shame. But every now and then you're reminded that professional sports aren't as safe and carefree as they look on television. Kiwilew was a good driver. :-(

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Java 1.4.1

Reminds me that I wanted to try whether PyDS also works with Jython. Yes, I know, Metakit and a few other things cause problems. But there might be alternatives for that (no idea if that also applies to docutils, but you can find something there too).

At PragDave there's the original article.

Queen Beatrix threatens to file charges

Oops! Is the Dutch royal house trying to catch up to the British royal house's scandal distance at breakneck speed?

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

Apples

Well. I've been eating only Danish hotdogs for years and with hamburgers, well, I'll just switch to Vikings or Bremen ones

At MEHRZWECKBEUTEL you can find the original article.

Excerpt from a commentary by Bush Sr. to Bush Jr.

Anything but great approval, quite the opposite. Bush Sr. criticizes the President for his willingness to wage war even without a UN mandate if necessary, and points out that such a war would ruin any hope for peace in the Middle East. Very interesting stuff. Maybe Dubya will listen to Dad...

At [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]][1] you can find the original article.

Peace appeals for Iraq banned

Well, as long as Büssow doesn't read this, otherwise he'd be all fired up right away and would quickly ban everyone in North Rhine-Westphalia from protesting or petitioning. And since he's already at it, he'd quickly ban everyone from thinking too.

I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.

No War in Our Name!

Exactly. Whoever takes no position tolerates it. You can take a position on Klaus Staeck's side.

At Hexentanz I found the original article.

New Exclusion Procedure against Möllemann

Hi there, if he had parried, he might have gotten through. Ok, fine, at least the FDP has a chance to make up for the failure from the last vote.

I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.

Nigeria-Connection

Hmm. I naturally picked up on the thing with the welfare recipient and his alleged million-dollar inheritance - Ennigerloh is, so to speak, just around the corner - but I wasn't aware until now that it was connected to the Nigeria connection. Well, I've never bet on the intelligence of rural political leadership in this area.

At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.

PyDBC 0.2

Contracts for Python? Hmm. Could be interesting, especially since you can disable them to boost runtime performance later. Maybe that will help get a better handle on the problems that Python's highly dynamic environment presents. Let me take a look.

At PyPI recent updates there's the original article.

International Court of Justice begins work

Well. And the Americans wisely objected beforehand and announced that they would free American military personnel by force if necessary if they were to be brought to court there. China and Israel did the same. So much for acceptance of the court.

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Guide to building an anonymous CVS server with Debian

The linked page provides not only the software, but also Debian packages and explanations for setting up your own anonymous CVS server, which runs under its own user and in a chroot jail. Nice thing. I use it for the Python Desktop Server.

Here you can find the original article.

Ari Fleischer admits Bush called from a prepared list of reporters

Oh man. Bush has his reporters and their questions pre-screened and still stumbles over them and blabs anyway...

At kuro5hin.org there's the original article.

Bush and the Truth ...

A page comparing various political statements made by Bush with reality. Not much remains of them...

Here's the original article.

Möllemann wants to stay in the Bundestag after all

Sure. He's still struggling. He'll make life hell for the FDP for a while. Serves them right, they fell for it too. Pretty dumb.

You can find the original article at tagesschau im Internet here.

All Crazy on the Western Front:

Well, America is heading straight back to the darkest times of blacklists, denunciations, and speech bans. Great thing that this country of all places thinks it has to shape the world according to its will - by force if necessary. Led by someone who considers "Saddam is a bad man" sufficient argument for a war of aggression. At Zickenterror you can find the original article.

British Government on the Verge of a Breaking Point

Will this now convince Blair to back down? Or will he sacrifice his own government's power for his faith in America? Actually, he is a skilled tactician, so you would expect him to give in now. If he does, Bush loses one of his most important pillars of support. It would be hoped that the war might be avoided after all. At least if the UN Security Council doesn't flip.

At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.

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Our little coffee trees are slowly getting going

At The Witch - Juttas Fotoalben you can find the original article.

Happy Hour for Specialist Retailers

Why's that bad? The slacker parties are meanwhile the only promising thing about Zähbit anyway

(which is why I avoid this mass event too - the information is available online more competently and faster)

At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.

Roogle - RSS Feed Search Engine

Roogle is a search engine where you can register RSS feeds that it then indexes and makes searchable. Nice thing since you explicitly search in weblogs and only in relatively current content.

Also cool is the disclaimer

Here's the original article.

Eric Raymond on SCO's Lawsuit Against IBM

SCO's action is truly absurd to its core. Suing IBM because IBM, through support of Linux, has limited SCO's revenue opportunities is certainly a very strange move. You are our competitor, you support Linux, your solutions are more successful than ours, so we're suing you - as far as I know, there is no right to commercial success, even in the USA.

Here's the original article.

Erik Zabel's First Success of the Season

Hey, things are going really well this year!

You can find the original article at tagesschau im Internet.

Make no mistake

An interesting collection of statements about what the Internet is or is not. Especially directed at all those who think they need to enhance the Internet, but only mean to make money doing so by presenting the same old stupid ideas over and over again. Read! Share!

I find the newly defined "Repetitive Mistake Syndrome" nice. But it probably won't be recognized by the occupational health and safety association either.

I found the original article at The Doc Searls Weblog.

Online database provides information on contact allergenic potential of chemicals

Actually only blogged here for Jutta so she finds out about it and doesn't miss it

The original article is available at heise online news (the original article).

Ranchero releases XML-RPC client for MacOS

Noted and blogged. Could become interesting if I ever get the urge to dive back into Objective-C.

The original article is at Workbench under this link.

Westerwelle's Rockets

Now I've been thinking the whole time about what kind of nasty comment I should make here, but actually Westerwelle's appearance speaks for itself, you don't need any nasty comments on top of it. And with that, this has become one anyway

I found the original article at das Netzbuch - ralles Weblog.

Möllemann returns - in Bavaria

The evil is always and everywhere

I found the original article at tagesschau im Internet.

Terry Jones on the War

The text by Terry Jones is really nice. Hmm. My neighbors aren't suspicious to me, but some of the drivers show strong aggression towards me in Münster. Am I allowed to interpret that now as an attack and threat and already initiate a preemptive strike against the drivers?

At kuro5hin.org I found the original article.

Adobe gives away Illustrator 10

Well, if I understood that correctly on the web, it's only the Windows version again.

At heise online news there's the original article.

Court prohibits SMS spam distribution

If I had a chance to find out who's actually sending me all this SMS spam, I could sue someone. But of course there's no way to get to the actual sender. But what was even crazier was today's call from a 01908 number that rang exactly once. After that it showed up in my call list, waiting for a callback. So folks, check your call lists carefully — with some numbers you really don't want to know who's on the other end ... Does the Schockwellenreiter now want to feed the mobile spambots with faked mobile numbers too?

I found the original article on heise online news.

Hunters threaten the last lynxes

Ok. That Norwegians have a problem has often been noticed with whaling. But what the hell is the point of this nonsense, allowing hunting of lynxes? That's just simply stupid.

I found the original article at Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft in the original article.

Installing OpenOffice.org on Mac OS X 10.2

Jutta has compiled a guide on how to get Open Office running on Mac with OS X and Apple X 11, after encountering some problems with the existing guides (and tools).

I found the original article at Hexentanz.

Zabel Second at Murcia Tour

Yeah, the eternal runner-up

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

Caffeine Software Suspends Operations

Too bad. Tiffany was a very interesting software that dated back to the NextStep era. It's really a shame when something like that disappears.

I found the original article on the Imaging Resource News Page.

The First Spring

Small graphical Linux workstation on old hardware

From the first real user of the Python Desktop Server outside http://muensterland.org/ comes a nice compilation of distributions and tools with which you can turn an old P75 with 16 MB RAM into a graphical workstation. And even though he contributes to the KDE project, KDE does not appear in the compilation. So go ahead, spruce up old hardware and put it back to use.

Here you can find the original article.

Möllemann entangled in 'Kirch affair'?

And I thought I would have to do without Möllemann scandals in the future. Thank you Mr. Kirch, thank you Mr. Möllemann, you make my day

At tagesschau im Internet I found the original article.

Olympus E System from the show floor

It seems to be slowly becoming something, the Olympus box. But what it will really be remains to be seen.

At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) there's the original article.

Post without title

Just found this on [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]][0]. Bush doesn't believe in evolution? Well, when I look at Bush, I also doubt some basic principles of evolution (something about evolution not going backwards - the American presidents apparently didn't know about that)

Found at [[ t e c h n o c u l t u r e ]][1] .

Protest

No comment

At gnurps you can find the original article.

Still setting up the new disk

Short and sweet: Hard drive wiped and freshly set up. And now I have to reinstall everything that was on it and isn't anymore. Oops. This could take a while (right now a backup of the system drive is running).

Somehow I'm not really in the mood for blogging

The only comment I can make: Safari rocks!

Glub Gola Feelings

Wow. I was actually hoping that Boing Boing (where I read about this) had fallen for a rumor. What a ridiculous idea to build an East German theme park right according to all the stereotypes...

At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.

Minolta DiMAGE Xt

Minolta's doing it again, just like with the Dimage 7 (i and Hi). No sooner is the new model out than a newer model comes along a short time later - here the Dimage X, Xi and now Xt. Somehow, as a buyer, I'd feel a bit foolish if cameras weren't even current for half a year anymore.

At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you'll find the original article.

OS X 10.2 upgrade - all software sucks

Crashing like Winblows. This is stupid. If I want crashing systems, I install something from Microsoft. Unix-based stuff is supposed to work. Yeah. This stinks.

OS X Upgrades are fun - Not!

Well. I know OS X 10.2 installs smoothly. And nobody has any problems with it. No. Only me. Of course.

Somehow my machine still crashes constantly, not quite as much as at the beginning after the 10.2 upgrade, but still often enough. Of course without any reasonable indication of the reasons, because then you could actually find and fix the problem.

Somehow I feel like I'm in front of a Windows computer right now. Did that really have to happen?