Minimum wage - even in the USA there is one, and it was just increased - and drastically so. Only here everyone claims that a statutory minimum wage would harm the economy.
Linkblog - 11.12.2006 - 11.1.2007
StudiVZ: "Gegendarstellung" per Defacement [Update] - cool action! Give the manager-babble and the Web 2.0 bubbles a good pinch.
Tappt Blu-ray in die Anti-Porno-Falle? - the enthusiasm with which a Heise journalist writes about the good performance of porn on HD.
Two programming positions for the "Bundestrojaner" - the absurdity continues. Our government couldn't care less about civil rights or the constitution. Long strides into the police state. 1984 is so yesterday.
Fab @ Home - interesting project, a Fabber for DIY. Prices of the components still quite high (approx. 2400 US$), but already an approach.
GeeXboX uShare UPnP A/V Media Server HomePage - simple, small uPNP server for Linux. Could be interesting for me to access my collected MP3s at home via the Nokia tablet (I already have a firewall running, which can also be a media server).
Magnatune: free MP3 music and music licensing - one of the sites where I now get my music. Very nice licensing terms (for example, you can share download links with three friends for them to download, prices are freely selectable within a fairly wide range, there are different licensing models for various purposes, including a CC license for free use).
Need a Painter? - hire that guy!
RepRap - and another free fabber.
towboat - batshitcrazy.
Wikipedia Skins - how to make Wikipedia more mobile-friendly so that the small Nokia screen is better utilized.
Correo - a new mail client for OS X - something like Camino for Firefox, but for Thunderbird. Could be quite exciting.
Child pornography on the Internet: Investigators check all German credit cards for the first time - because, it is against child pornography, so everyone must agree. That data protection and presumption of innocence are simply left by the wayside, no one cares. And tomorrow we ask for contributions to the Communist Party or the trade union - and then? Are we still all in agreement then?
chaostables - Ideas for firewalling - how to outsmart, block, and confuse various scanning methods. Perfect for long winter evenings at the firewall (cancelled due to global warming).
Look around you - I have to check it out. Sesame Street for adults and then in the style of Douglas Adams? Sounds like Nirvana.
Max (Macintosh Audio for OS X) - I should check that out, it could be an interesting alternative to simple iTunes ripping. On the other hand: the charm of iTunes lies precisely in its simplicity ...
Momofuku Ando - the inventor of instant noodles.
Nokia N800 is now public & available! - Wow! Now with built-in camera for video telephony over the internet. And of course still open source and Linux based, faster, cooler ...
Ophcrack - Crack NTLM password hashes using rainbow tables. Comes with a ready-made Linux live CD including the software and the tables.
Second life goes open source - first step the frontend. Yes, I am quite enthusiastic.
Skype for the Nokia Tablet - but only for the new N800. For the N770, there are already two VOIP clients with Googletalk and GizmoProject (and with GizmoProject also one that is based on standards). Nevertheless, it's nice to get the quite widespread Skype as an option, especially with the built-in cam in the N800.
What really happened on Mars? -- Authoritative Account - exciting report about a software bug in the Mars Pathfinder and how it was found and handled.
GWUP - Welcome to the Skeptics! I didn't know about this one - even though the association has been around since 87.
Amazon mystery: pricing of books - dynamic pricing. Book prices rise because they are temporarily stored in a shopping cart. Hmm - fixed book pricing, anyone? So it will probably only happen in the non-DE shops.
The VRS promotes underage smokers! - delightful. Really delightful.
FBI: Workers saw prisoner abuse at Guantanamo - "This thorough internal assessment shows the FBI was not involved in these activities in any way," said chief FBI spokesman Richard Kolko. Jaja, sie haben nur zugeguckt und erst später bei Nachfragen darüber berichtet. Was aber faszinierend ist: die Informationen sind auf eine Anfrage auf Basis des Informationsfreiheitsgesetzes veröffentlicht worden - wie würde eine solche Anfrage hier in Deutschland beantwortet? Innere Sicherheit und daher keine Veröffentlichung? Würden wir in einem ähnlichen Fall überhaupt eine Chance haben, die Wahrheit (die ja möglicherweise schon längst intern dokumentiert ist) ans Licht zu holen?
Pegasus fliegt nicht mehr - oops. Somehow a piece of history, Pegasus Mail. I still remember my wild hacks with the DOS version in Novell networks. Guerilla mail system at the company.
cutmp3 - a nice little MP3 editor for the console - ideal for quickly cutting pauses out of songs and similar tasks on a streaming server.
Dallas Food - What's Noka Worth? (Part 1) - 10-part report on the value of Noka chocolate. The conclusion: according to the report, this is simply Bonnat chocolate sold with a 1300% price markup (and thus becomes the most expensive chocolate in the world). You might as well buy Bonnat if the report is correct.
How Old is the Grand Canyon? Park Service Won't Say. - what a load of nonsense. Creationist nonsense prevents park staff from talking about the geological formation of the Grand Canyon? US of Absurdity, my ass.
Pushtunwali, Honour among them - sounds like it's from another time. And then they wonder why they can't get peace in Afghanistan - how can they, under these conditions?
SLeek - alternative mini-client (no graphical display etc, only chat/IM and basic avatar function) for SecondLife. Could become interesting if you could implement a chat relay with it - although it's C# ...
Big Brother in the private computer - Orwell is so outdated ...
Bildzeitung appears in Second Life - what is forgotten to mention: there is already a whole range of free publications in Second Life, which in most cases are written by professional journalists. Where the willingness should come from to pay even just 40 cents for such trash from the Blöd - when you can buy clothes for 150 L$ in Second Life - no one could answer me satisfactorily. Probably the Blöd hopes that their audience in Second Life is as stupid as in the real world ...
[Google Pagerank Algorithm](http://kraeutler.net/vincent/essays/google page rank in python) - in Python. Interesting.
MySQL Quietly Drops Support for Most Linux Distributions - for example, Debian. Another reason why all the crybabies who always insisted on pointing out the lack of manufacturer support for PostgreSQL can now bite their asses. But of course, it fits that, among others, Suse - the Microsoft-infested Linux - is supported ...
Olympic Cease and Desist: Saftblog Gives Up - it's been a while since an utterly absurd and ridiculous cease and desist has been circulating on the net. Well, the "German Olympic Sports Confederation" will probably know why it wants to ruin its reputation before it's even known ...
Real-World Passwords - Bruce Schneier analyzes user data from a phishing attack and reports on password distributions, lengths, frequencies, etc. Very interesting, "password1" is the new "password".
john sore & his afro-safety - funky macho gangsta blues.
Man with no pulse considered a medical breakthrough - interesting alternative to the classic heart simulation: a continuous pump.
ajp-wsgi - an implementation of WSGI (the abstract Python server protocol) based on AJP (the Java Server Protocol), written entirely in C and executing Python applications via embedded Python interpreters. Could be very interesting for efficient operation of Python applications.
EU Parliament votes for liberalization of television advertising - well, this will make television even more uninteresting than it already is. If I want advertising, I look at the junk mail in the mailbox, which is at least local. What can you do, I hardly ever turn on the TV anyway - besides the internet, this simple ad-infested broadcast medium makes a rather pitiful impression ...
LibSecondLife-Java - a port of the SL protocols to Java (so far there was only the libsecondlife story written in C#). And not everyone has or wants to install Mono ...
Object Debugger - new toy for the best Scheme system in the world: DrScheme. This time a very interesting debugging tool for object-oriented programs, which expands the already impressive toolbox.
Retired from security@php.net - "The reasons for this are many, but the most important one is that I have realised that any attempt to improve the security of PHP from the inside is futile".
BGH bans online searches of computer systems - interesting, how this comes at the same time as Schäuble's rant. And how this article already assumes that politics will bluntly ignore the court's opinion and simply create legal foundations.