Inquiry Shows British Scientists Took Brains Without Families' Consent
Does that perhaps explain why Blair has been doing such strange things lately? Could he be part of the dark figure?
I found the original article at New York Times: Science.
Archive 28.4.2003 - 13.5.2003
Orchids Are Just Asparagus Too
So I'll be ordering orchids with ham at the pub soon
I found the original article at Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft.
Expert: VAT must increase
What has always puzzled me: whenever the economic situation seems serious, all sorts of experts eagerly come along and say that VAT needs to go up. Oddly enough, none of these experts ever come up with the idea of calling for a VAT reduction when the economic situation improves...
At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.
The Shockwave Rider's Nag Turns 50!
I'd like to congratulate right away
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
NRW nameserver circumvents blocking order
No need to comment on that separately, speaks for itself
At heise online news you can find the original article.
Mayor of Hanau Recalled
Well, even the cook can't help you there ...
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Donald E. Knuth on Significant Whitespace
We will perhaps eventually be writing only small modules which are identified by name as they are used to build larger ones, so that devices like indentation, rather than delimiters, might become feasible for expressing local structure in the source language. Donald E. Knuth, "Structured Programming with goto Statements", Computing Surveys, Vol 6 No 4, Dec. 1974 Digest that, you Perl hackers!
(BTW: I'm a Perl hacker myself, so I'm allowed to gripe)
Great Barrier Reef
I took a look at the Profamilia site regarding the article. Wow - someone really has no idea about accessibility. Ok, my pages are also built with tables, but I don't claim that it's really barrier-free either. At least I test my pages with Lynx to see how a screen reader might render my pages - and they're usable. You really can't say that about the Profamilia pages. Not only do they use frames (which can already be a big problem with screen readers), their frame names are also so meaningless - just take a look at the main page (i.e. the frameset) in the LynxViewer. If you click through one after another (!) on the frames bv zw start.html , unten , f_inhalt and inhalt, then you actually get some content served. Yes, four levels of nested framesets. Before that, two redirects as well. Ridiculous. At Ligne Claire there's the original article.
Microsoft faces trillion-dollar fine
Did I already say that I find the bug they built in (funneling form data for expelling a participant through open parameters, making it easy to manipulate and causing the internal system to work with other expulsion data) highly embarrassing? May I dwell on it a bit longer?
At Spiegel Online: Netzwelt there's the original article.
My leg is a security hole
Cool. Rogers Cadenhead was injured in the leg by a Microsoft bug - there's only one reaction to that: sue Microsoft immediately!
At Workbench you can find the original article.
Ullrich back to Telekom?
So I think he should go to Bjarne Riis. But they probably don't pay well enough for him. That's a shame, really – a driver with that talent and a sports director with Tour experience, that could be really great.
At WDR.de I found the original article.
Web browser Safari slacks on SSL certificates
Hubbala, that's a pretty stupid bug.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Jan Ullrich on the Verge of Jumping
And come on, now let's finally settle this once and for all, I want to know whether Ullrich will ride the Tour or not. That Mr. Dahms must be a strange fellow ...
At WDR.de I found the original article.
Juice reduction
Stirring the shit - I think that's quite an apt description. I also like this one: And through some fluke of their evil software, they seem to get indexed really fast [...] - could someone please show me this fluke of my evil software? I'd like to know what it looks like
At The Doc Searls Weblog you'll find the original article.
(re)StructuredText
In response to my colleague's question (since he still doesn't enable comments on his posts and his forum requires registration and I don't want to sign up
): (re) Structured-Text is used with Python DocUtils. This is also used in the Python Desktop Server so that I don't have to write content in HTML. The Python Desktop Server also includes a module StructuredText.py that can be used for standalone deployment - it does have minimal dependencies on the Python Desktop Server, but these are automatically disabled when used standalone (it's mainly about enrichment and automatic linking to content from the weblog tool - so it could also be used in other projects). In general, I can only recommend (re) StructuredText, it's very convenient - in my opinion the most advanced text-to-HTML converter currently available for Python. There is a released version 0.2 and a CVS version 0.3 - the Python Desktop Server is based on the 0.2 version, so when trying out the module, make sure to use the correct version!
For the Python Desktop Server, on the other hand, the CVS version of the StructuredText.py module should be used because it contains massive changes from Garth T. Kidd that significantly expand the functionality - the previous release version of the Python Desktop Server still has an HTML converter I built myself with reduced functionality.
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Will Google block weblogs?
Hmm. There are already two pure blog search engines based on blog content (more precisely on RSS feeds) (http://feedster.com and http://rss-search.com). And http://daypop.comm as well as http://popdex.com and certainly several other blog tools also offer searches on blog content (in that case probably on normal web content). So Google would just be another one in that regard. The idea isn't really new. However, separating blogs from the main index would be fatal - because blogs are often more than just the blog itself. Not all content is offered there for syndication and is therefore available in RSS form (for example, the Python Desktop Server is to my knowledge the only blogging tool that creates an RSS feed for stories as well - with Radio, stories remain excluded from the RSS feed).
Let's see how it continues and what will ultimately actually be implemented.
At Der Schockwellenreiter there is the original article.
Bush & Blair Nominated for Nobel Prize
What? Is there a more brainless suggestion than awarding the Peace Prize to warmongers?
At Industrial Technology & Witchcraft you can find the original article.
Nearly 100 Million for Victims of September 11
The claims are directed, among others, at Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government under Saddam Hussein. - uh, what? Al Qaeda, okay, understandable. Osama bin Laden - well, as the intellectual originator (or instigator) I can go along with that. But who has ever proven a connection between Saddam Hussein and September 11 anywhere? That sounds to me more like someone is just looking for a reason to get their hands on Iraq's coffers - which they've already secured anyway.
As evidence of Iraq's connections to Al Qaeda, according to the plaintiffs' lawyer, they presented, among other things, the relevant statements by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell before the Security Council. - so it seems clear that the verdict is based on lies. And therefore has nothing whatsoever to do with the rule of law.
At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.
Patent Dispute over Spam Protection
Yes, brilliant, patent nonsense again. However, it should be easy to demonstrate prior art for challenge-response via email - many mailing list systems have been using this method for sign-ups for a very long time. At heise online news there is the original article.
Vulnerability in Microsoft's Passport
Ouch. That's an absolute beginner's mistake they made there. Embarrassing. Really embarrassing.
You can find the original article on heise online news.
Spam in the future 'unacceptable harassment'
About time. It was getting slow. Let's hope the draft passes soon, so at least action can be taken against German spammers.
The original article can be found at Industrial Technology & Witchcraft at den Originalartikel.
Jan Ullrich's team again without license
Somehow this is already more than embarrassing ...
At tagesschau im Internet I found the original article.
AOL Weblogs?
Yeah. That's still missing. A flood of millions of AOL weblogs that would then completely sink the Google index.
Well, fortunately it won't mean the same thing as the situation back then with newsgroups, since weblogs are fortunately a pull medium and not a push medium like news. Except that some central service might run into light problems if, for example, all AOL weblogs start pinging weblogs.com
At owrede_log I found the original article.
In the Footsteps of Micro$oft?
Relief is here: 10.2.6 is out
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Mehdorn, eat rails
Well. Who expected anything different from someone who considers train rides over 4 hours to be an imposition.
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Rice accuses Berlin and Paris of hostage-taking
Members of the US government are going more and more off track ...
At RP Online: Politik you can find the original article.
Fischer warns Greens against loss of government power
Well, without government power, it probably won't work with the European outside Joschka
At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.
Lafontaine unwelcome at SPD anniversary celebration
Wow, now the party bigwigs are playing the offended fool
At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.
Michael Arndt
Unfortunately no RSS feed, but really a nice photo blog that my colleague dug up.
At das Netzbuch - ralles Weblog you can find the original article.
US States Ban Televisions and Telephones
The Americans are crazy. Where's their so-called freedom then? Up their ass...
At Der Rollberg I found the original article.
Hackers and painters
Finally, a text that captures really well how programming works for me. Programming is far more an aesthetic and creative process than a purely technical one - many aspects of programming involve artistic activity for me rather than technical implementation. The deeper I get into a program and enter "hack mode," the further I move away from classical software engineering teachings - there's no design and analysis there, but there is a lot of intuition at work.
Anyone who reduces programming to the purely technical aspect and thinks you can plan and analyze everything beforehand, preferably before you even sit down at the computer, excludes an essential part of programming: namely, the dialogue with the machine, with the problem.
Programming languages are a means of communication, so we should learn to communicate with these languages. Not pidgin and machine translation!
I found the original article at Tao of the Machine.
Schleswig-Holstein scraps controversial allowance increase
First signs of intelligence? Can't be...
At RP Online: Politik there's the original article.
Schröder: Times of abundance are over ...
... said the man in the Armani suit.
At RP Online: Politik you can find the original article.
Berlusconi accuses judges of 'coup attempt'
Ok, politician madness has also broken out abroad. Ok, it had already broken out earlier with Berlusconi, but he hadn't shown it so openly before. Or had he?
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Linux: No Chance for Buffer Overflows
It was about time too. Because the best approach is still in the OS itself, not in relying on better application developers. Unfortunately.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Special Party Congress on PDS Leadership Crisis
How can there be a leadership crisis in a party without leadership? I mean, the PDS basically just consists of either deserters and professional duckers, or hectic running around because of the latest wave of deserters and professional duckers. The central strategy of PDS leadership members seems to be the combination of "it wasn't me"-calls and "ok, I'll resign then"-actions.
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Concern about an end to Red-Green
That's rather amusing. You're offline for a couple of days, come back and what happens? You watch the government dismantle itself. Rather amusing indeed...
You can find the original article on tagesschau online here.
Union disputes retirement age
Isn't there early retirement for politicians when their ideas are completely absurd and stupid? Maybe one could also send the Junge Union in there before some of them potentially cause confusion in politics or business. At any rate, it's reassuring that – no matter how stupidly the SPD, Greens, PDS or other parties behave – the Union always manages to top it
At tagesschau im Internet there is the original article.
Broadcast Break
Due to an extended weekend in the Sauerland (meeting of crazy photographers), things will probably be a bit thin around here over the next few days ...
80x86 ASM for ASP.NET
Ouch. Writing ASP.NET pages in assembler. Sure. That's what I dream about. At night. When I've eaten too much pizza beforehand. With pepperonis.
I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
Secret Services
That was kind of to be expected...
At Der Rollberg you can find the original article.
And which enemy of the Christian Church are you?
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Wood mice orient themselves like 'Hansel and Gretel'
Cool. That raises the question for me of how many people are now in the forest paying attention to forest mice's trail markers and mixing them up to mess with the mice.
At RP-Online: Wissenschaft there's the original article.
Merz: Cut social assistance entirely in extreme cases
Could this Merz finally please be committed? I mean, he's slowly becoming a danger to the public...
At RP Online: Politik you can find the original article.
SCO: Next in line are Red Hat and SuSE
Well, at least they write that they only want to tackle this if the lawsuit against IBM is successful. But I can't imagine that happening either. Somehow I'm getting the feeling that SCO is not only becoming unpopular on the market, but will also become obsolete in the long run. So to speak, the Atari of the Unix world.
I found the original article at heise online news.
Report: New left-wing terror group emerging
Hmm. The headline mentions a left-wing terror group, but nowhere in the entire report is a single point mentioned that has anything to do with left-wing radicalism. Strange kind of reporting and headline choice - shouldn't the headline be related to the content?
With the Bild newspaper I'm used to that sort of thing, it's quite possible that they're just building up a fear scenario again to boost circulation, but I would have expected somewhat more engagement with the article from the Rheinische Post.
I found the RP Online: Politics and the original article there.
Blair for sole US supremacy
There really is no argument stupid enough that a politician wouldn't bring it up at some point. Hey, unions also disturb social peace because they allow employees to meet with employers on equal footing. That's dangerous and disruptive, so we should definitely abolish unions too. How? Someone already made that argument, except they made a bigger deal out of it and phrased it differently.
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
The Patriot Act and Its Impact in the USA
Anyone who wants to read what the Patriot Act really means - namely the suspension of constitutional rights of Americans in their own country - can read the linked article. It reminds one suspiciously of certain occurrences from an earlier Germany. Only the clothing is different - maybe.
Schemix - A Scheme In The Linux Kernel
Ok. I love Lisp. And I love Scheme as a very elegant, lean Lisp dialect. But a Scheme interpreter integrated in the kernel goes a bit too far even for me
Although - that could be a starting point for the OpenSource Lisp machine
I found at Lambda the Ultimate the original article.