BlogHUD : Second Life blogging system - actually more like a del.icio.us for SL, as you can link and comment on positions in the world. Tagging would be nice, so an interesting catalog of inworld positions could be compiled.
Linkblog - 26.6.2006 - 21.7.2006
My Boring Ass Life - Silent Bob (yes, that Silent Bob!) speaks. Writes. Whatever.
Woe betide my Dell - quality tech support by Dell.
Landis is back - and he's gaining time on his competitors again. The top three now within 30 seconds, and Klöden is also in a good position. That's weird. Absolutely weird.
Cheap and willing - Exploitation of volunteers. So that the fat cats can get richer. And anyway - the unemployed have plenty of time for volunteer work.
Rasmussen wins, Landis collapses - and the entire ranking is thrown into disarray. And I'm sitting (sweating) at the office and can't watch live.
The Ugly Truth: Our President is an Imbecile - Russia is big and so is China.
TLS Lite - a nice small Python-only lib for SSL, TLS and low-level X509 handling. Quite useful for quick-off projects and for larger systems it integrates with other PKI libraries for Python.
IT-Branchenverband will Zuwanderung gegen Fachkräftemangel - of course, immigration is important in today's world and should not be unnecessarily blocked. But still, I somehow believe that the shortage of skilled workers can be remedied through training in companies. Preferably then also foreign young people in the training positions, to get the curve back to integration. And at the same time address a series of social problems that are initially triggered by the hopeless economic situation of young people ...
Another opinion - on the crisis in and around Israel. I'm still missing the hint that politicians in Europe and the USA (and the former USSR) now see this crisis as a welcome opportunity for their image care ... (and everyone is busily selling more weapons to both sides)
Numbers station - these strange shortwave stations that only read streams of numbers.
Debian-Hack: Intruder exploited known vulnerability - quick reaction and resolution, that's good. Kernel on a several-hundred-user system not updated in time, that's rather bad.
Garfield: Permanent Monday - Garfield comics analyzed.
Gizmo – A free phone for your computer - now also available for the Nokia 770 tablet!
Magnolia Hall Victorian Furniture - don't ask.
beaTunes ~ build better playlists - automatically analyze and classify iTunes libraries.
Pink-Floyd-Co-founder Syd Barrett has died - shine on, you crazy diamond.
Blue People of Kentucky - strange ...
The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources - exactly what it says on the tin. Fascinating.
Enigma Homepage - an Oxyd-lookalike for various platforms.
Galileo encryption cracked - and thus the door is open for free decoders.
Landis has osteonecrosis - Top favorite has an injury that prevents him from even getting on his bike properly: Floyd Landis has a bad hip and will get a new one in the fall.
Oxyd Extra - a continuation of Oxyd, the old marble game.
Patent on Social Networking - goes to friendster in the USA. Idiotic.
Suitable Systems / SeisMac - Record vibrations with the Sudden Motion Sensor of the MacBook Pro.
CLPython - an implementation of Python in Common Lisp - ok, that's already crazy.
The world champion in green and yellow - already crazy. World champion jersey, green jersey and then also the yellow jersey. Boonen's year.
Grand coalition agrees on tightening anti-terrorism laws - well, that was obvious. All the surveillance measures so far have not brought any significant success, so they cheer each other on in Berlin and expand them right away. Fits the picture of Berlin's intellectual poverty.
Well, that's how it's done! - Kessler wins the stage and Voigt does what he does best: break away, lead the race and get caught just before the finish line.
Basso also involved in doping scandal? - ouch. That would be a real shock if Basso is suspended as well. Then the Tour would become really exciting, as none of the favorites (Ullrich, Vinokurov, Basso) would take part.
Supreme Court: Guantanamo tribunals illegal - well, it's annoying that this was only determined at the end of Dubbya's term. It would have been nice if someone - for example, from the US opposition - had sued earlier.
Textureshop - generates tileable textures based on parameters for random generators. Interesting idea, can definitely deliver nice results with some tinkering.
Ullrich, Sevilla and Pevenage temporarily suspended - consistent with the self-commitment of the Pro-Tour teams, only logical if the Spanish police have sufficient initial suspicion for an investigation. But somehow I have the feeling that, regardless of the outcome of the investigation, Jan Ullrich will hang up his cycling shoes.
OMG Girlz Don’t Exist on teh Intarweb!!!!1 - hilarious.
Wells Grants in Part IBM's Motion to Limit SCO's Claims! In Large Part. - wow. SCO has been heavily rejected here.
Bank data extorted from SWIFT - Bank secrecy? Data protection? Pfft. Forget it. The question remains: which damage is greater: that caused by terrorism, or that caused by the alleged fight against terrorism.
Conversation with Boston Volkswagen - Paul Graham wants to buy a car ...
Microsoft acquires iView Multimedia - well, that makes my decision to switch to something else (probably Lightroom) even easier. iView Media Pro was already a shaky affair under the original manufacturer, and then adding Microsoft's "expertise" on top of that ...
Tinderbox: Tinderbox 3.5 - many features sound interesting, but somehow this will be the Emacs of the outliner ...
Shrinking health insurance companies? - oh yes, first privatization and opening are allegedly the key to happiness. Then the small insurers (who are often the more efficient ones) are to be destroyed. Does anyone still believe that our politics are not bought?
30-Billion Donation for Bill Gates - one can certainly appreciate that. If one day all that remains of Bill Gates is his foundation, that wouldn't be such a bad outcome. For that, one can also swallow this perversion of operating systems, as a large part of the economy is involved in humanitarian projects.
58 professionals involved in Spanish affair - the Spaniards are probably running out of cyclists this year ...
Brown bear Bruno killed by hunters - the problem bear just didn't want to respect the no-go areas ...
Exploring Cocoa with F-Script - interesting article about the object system of OS X
Freenode hacked - Operator account compromised. If you have passwords there, better change them and make sure the passwords used there are not used elsewhere ...
Hartz-IV fraud: 'Our image of man was too positive' - well, my image of Struck was probably too positive. So he is just as much of a fool as the other proletarians in Berlin ...
Microsoft buries WinFS - which turns the hopelessly delayed Vista into a pure farce.
Python Cheatsheet : saprfc 0.08 - another SAP-RFC module for Python.
Despite rising sales, industry is cutting jobs - and yet prolethicians still believe in regulation by the economy.