Sale of NRW University Hospitals? - oh yes, privatization. Alleged panacea of our time. In reality, just as much quackery as snake oil.
Linkblog - 17.5.2006 - 26.6.2006
DrScheme - the best Scheme implementation in the world now has a new version 350. This version includes, among other changes, a Just-in-Time-Compiler for Intel and PPC.
Generic Table Relations for Django. Very interesting, this makes things like tags in data models much easier. I should be able to get rid of a lot of stuff from my Stuff-Library with this.
Major setback for anti-whaling activists - in the name of commerce and idiocy, we simply kill all the whales. What madness ...
Jan Ullrich calls it quits - and wins the Tour de Suisse. Maybe the Tour de France will still be a chance for him this year.
Wengophone: VoIP done right - could this be free software that can compete with Skype? Free is only the software, the use of the network infrastructure is tied to a provider and is chargeable.
Allegro Common Lisp Express - the current free (as in free beer) version 8.0 of it is out now.
Judgment: Pre-checking of forum posts is unreasonable - I don't know how many contradictory judgments it will take until there is finally a consensus on this topic ...
Automatic Pickle Serialization and Deserialization with PostgreSQL - very interesting, automatic pickle/unpickle when using PsycoPG2.
Bundestag beschlieĂźt staatlich verordnetes Verhungern - a good comment on the Bundestag's decision to reduce benefits to zero for unemployed people who "refuse" three times (I wonder how many politicians would accept one of the "offers" ...)
The world naked at friends' places - how convenient for the police to simply define their profile so that all young women fall under it and then get backing from the court when they force women to undress for no reason ... Rule of law? Forget it.
Former BND spy implicates Hanning | tagesschau.de - hey, August, this is not a good picture that you are presenting of Nordwalde. I already thought that you had to play the role of the top spy was a mess, but this here ...
Microsoft's Calling Home Problem - about the latest approaches with which Microsoft spies on legal users.
Speaking Frankly: From Leitz sublime to Leica splitsville - no, I didn't know that Leitz helped Jews during the Nazi era to emigrate from Germany and start over abroad. Respect.
McDonald's Interactive Division - real or hoax? If it's real, then hats off to the action.
Death of an Innocent with No Legal Consequences - how convenient, when there is no way to convict them. Strangely enough, the victim is there, the weapons and the perpetrators. And yet you can't convict them. Of course ...
US House of Representatives votes against "net neutrality" - we can probably assume that the worst possible variant will prevail ...
SkypeOut - The End - new business concept: simply collect customer credit after some time. Maybe send an empty e-mail as a reminder beforehand. Skype should patent this ...
Create SL Objects in Blender — If You Dare - very interesting, a bridge between Blender and SecondLive - Offline content creation could be possible.
Sony: 10-Megapixel camera with a duster from the alpha series - not so stupid, what Sony has made from Minolta.
Caller ID Spoofing - what is worse than a broken authorization system? One that millions of people and machines trust.
Rolling Stone : Was the 2004 Election Stolen? - Evidence that the 2004 election in the USA was anything but clean.
OLG Frankfurt: Online-Demonstration ist keine Gewalt - hopefully online demonstrations will now really be treated the same way and considered according to the same criteria as real demonstrations.
Digital rangefinder camera Epson R-D1s is coming - and doesn't sound bad at all, the price has come down significantly. So I will probably postpone any camera purchases until after Photokina.
StepTalk(GNU Scripting Framework) - now available in a version for Mac OS X!
The Illustrated Nethack Monsters - an image for every character monster from Nethack.
Basso outclasses the competition - one could certainly say that at the Giro. Ok, the competition for the Tour was of course not completely present (Ullrich only as a teammate and Vinokourov was missing), but still a strong performance.
Offended Italian salami - in any case, that's the impression Simoni gives me. Somehow it seems to be missing for him that his times are probably over.
The source code for UCSD-Pascal is free - for fans of old languages and old operating systems. Oh man, that was the first Pascal environment I hacked on at school almost 24 years ago ...
Feedjack - A Django+Python Powered Feed Aggregator (Planet) - could perhaps be used as a replacement for the rather outdated WordPress at metaowl.de?
Microsoft wants »cooperating editorial teams« - Heise isn't what it used to be either. Even the IX is starting to look like a bulletin board for Microsoft in some places ...
PL/1 for GCC - for fans of old languages.
PyCells and peak.events - Phillip J. Eby on Cells and what they mean for event-oriented programming. Particularly interesting, as one of the projects in the Google Summer of Code is a Python implementation of the Cell concept.
Theory for cloaking devices - Invisiprims for RL ... (SL-Insider-Joke, sorry)
US Patent Office rejects claims in Forgent's JPEG patent - hopefully the rest of their silly patent will be invalidated as well.
Medallia Blog: SmackBook Pro - use the motion sensor of the new MacBook Pro to switch between virtual desktops. Just give the MacBook Pro a slap ...
O’Reilly trademarks “Web 2.0″ and sets lawyers on IT@Cork! » at Tom Raftery’s I.T. views - and demands a name change of a conference not organized by them. Well, Web 2.0 is just marketing jargon ...
Safari Tidy plugin - tidy as a Safari plugin. Nice. Safari is slowly growing up.
x48 emulator - and on the Nokia Pad! Genius, hopefully there will soon be an installable package.
Are you generic? - Wilson Miner describes how he, as a non-programmer, can create applications himself without programmer assistance using Django and its simple generic view functions.
Free42 for Zaurus X/Qt and Nokia 770 - an HP42S emulator that runs on the Nokia tablet. Brilliant.
MyTunesRSS - nice little tool, starts a web server and generates dynamic podcast feeds (as well as a simple web interface) from the iTunes library.
Rogue Amoeba - Nicecast for Mac OS X - Stream iTunes to a ShoutCast server (or locally on the LAN).
Klinikstreik: Are cash patients not emergencies? - the types of surgeries performed despite the strike, I'm not surprised. But the strong preference for private patients that comes through - something like this can already reduce the acceptance of the doctors' strike.
US judge dismisses Masri's torture lawsuit against CIA - fuck human rights. When will there finally be sanctions against this unjust regime?
MGTalk - Google Talk for mobile - unfortunately doesn't work on my V600i yet. No idea why.
What Happened To Dynamic Range - Dynamic range in CD recordings and the (negative) development over the years.
Adactio: Journal - The ugly American - yep, Paul Graham == Wanker. After all, if he really spouted such nonsense.
Kauder warns against the publication of the BND report - due to alleged endangerment of the work of the BND. That this work of the BND endangers our constitutional rights, of course, does not matter at all ...
New MacBooks - sorry, but a notebook with chipset graphics instead of mobile ATI and then still 5 cm wider and 1 cm deeper - something like that is no replacement for a 12" PowerBook. I hope Apple comes to their senses ...