Linkblog - 24.7.2006 - 8.8.2006

Star Trek Inspirational Posters - brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

BS Exporter for Blender - export interactive VRML from Blender (static VRML is already supported by default)

David Byrne(yes, the one from Talking Heads) blogged. Among other things, against American Christianist madness.

The state is leaving, the economy is coming - Education is the most important asset of society. We are selling it off.

MacWeb3D - everything about virtual worlds on the Macintosh

Synthetic testosterone - in Landis' blood samples. Well, that's that then. It will certainly drag on for a long time, but the career is probably suspended for now.

The Annotated VRML97 Reference Manual

Voigt in Yellow - class. First he wins a stage victory and now he at least has the yellow jersey for one day (by the way, taken over from Zabel!).

Voigt wins and keeps the competition in check - wow!

VRML Primer and Tutorial - free book about VRML97

How the railway is being dismantled - Silverware. Especially cheap.

QAvimator - extended animation software that also allows the integration of reference objects for better positioning.

Hackers Clone RFID Passports - oh, great, the blackhats have demonstrated how easy it is to clone a German passport with RFID (i.e. the RFID part of it). Result? A blank piece of paper with an RFID chip that looks like the original ID to the electronic reader.

New "Web'n'Walk" data options at T-Mobile - the bureaucratic nightmare (which still seems to be rampant at telecoms) would neigh if it could handle the application form and the 100-page instructions for filling it out ...

SLStats: Is Big Brother Watch-ing? - we all have nothing to hide, even in virtual worlds. It's strange somehow, how willingly people give out data, even if it's other people's data, or very personal data.

The scientist whom history forgot - Emilie du Châtelet.

When did we forget our dreams?

Official pre-formulated text on the right of withdrawal is invalid - yet another example of our federal justice bungling ...

Black Hat: MacBook via WLAN hacked - yuck.

Girllovers - Behind the Mirrors - click and read. I mean it!

Kinderschutzbund: "Insurance companies must pay for anesthetics" - please what? Professional anesthesia should be removed from the service catalog? Have they completely lost their minds in Berlin?

France: iTunes law violates human rights - isn't it cute how the human right to property protection is misused to give companies (what do they have to do with human rights?) a big lever against individuals (who actually have the human rights) in their hands?

Apple - Support - Download TechTool Deluxe - quite useful for Apple Care users: the latest TechTool version, which, for a change, shouldn't shred the disk structure ...

Cruel.Com: Ancient Chinese Secret, Huh? - how good that I don't particularly like Chinese food ...

Humorous Poems by Joachim Ringelnatz - German and English translations.

Outrage following French landmark ruling on copyright - shocking, when you look at what the French have been given in their nest ...

Police officers criticize statements by the federal data protection officer on mass genetic tests - yes yes, the security of our citizens. Important. Especially also the efficiency. Where would we end up if every Tom, Dick, and Harry data protection officer would criticize there. Strange only, that with all this efficiency and security, the mass genetic tests actually don't find any perpetrators ...

Nonsense poetry by Christian Morgenstern - German and English translations.

SCO is Distributing ELF Under the GPL Still. Yes. Now. Today. - strange. One would think that SCO would have already taken down all downloads that allegedly violate their rights. Wrong guess ...

Apple replaces defective MacBook Pro batteries - I need to check what I have.

Atomic Rocket: Space War: Weapons - Considerations of various SciFi weapons (some of which are real weapons) and their effects in space.

Banken: Vollstrecker aus Texas - Real estate locusts. Surely, many will now feel the need to explain to me why it's not that bad after all ...

Free Movies Fallen out of Copyright (Public Domain) - free movies. There are a few gems among them.

How to Bypass Most Firewall Restrictions and Access the Internet Privately - system administrators and firewall operators should take a look at this.

How To Criticizing Computer Scientists - Avoiding Ineffective Deprecation And Making Insults More Pointed

Introducing Django 0.95 - new Django release out. Magic removed.

Living with Errors - the Key to Scaleout - good article about system scalability.

New in JavaScript 1.7 - exciting to see what's being added to JavaScript. Given the slow pace of IE's development, we can expect to use these features in 2010 - or earlier, if Microsoft's browser embarrassment is simply pulled from the market ...

RIAA Will Drop Cases If You Point Out That An IP Address Isn't A Person - open Wi-Fi seems to have helped in a few cases as an argument.

Wings 3d - 3D modeler. Open source.

Intershop continues to write losses - and Microsoft Word has bugs and in China a sack of rice fell over.

Landis positiv - if the B sample also tests positive and he doesn't have a good explanation (but sorry, even the best explanation would brand him as "stupid," because he could have registered the medication beforehand), then it's probably over for him.

Uncertain future for Fraunhofer Institute in Darmstadt - now begins the scrapping of the GMD remnants. Nothing will remain of what was once a top-class research forge. How strategically cleverly orchestrated by the politicians and the officials of the Fraunhofer Society ...

WPHP - Call PHP from Python via a FastCGI server. This could, for example, integrate PHP into Django.

RWE will Strompreise erneut erhöhen | tagesschau.de - Record profits. Of course, prices must be raised.

As T-Mobile Sports Director - well, I would have preferred to keep him as a commentator, his memories are still fresh enough to be interesting for commentaries. This makes the unbearable babble of the public broadcasters' sleeping pills a bit more bearable.

Employment Agency: Decrees on the Net - just a little more transparency. And even that you have to fight for in court. That's how our Freedom of Information Act looks like ...

The Computer Club is back - Revival of the Wolf-Gang. But if this is a podcast - how are we supposed to notice when the fat one breaks everything again?

Metasploit: Internet Drive-By Shootings - interesting article about the possibilities of exploiting browser bugs.