Apparently 200,000 German-language bomb-making instructions on the net - by goats and gardeners. And how interest groups shamelessly cooperate with corporate interests when it suits them. That the demands ultimately mean a sell-out of our rights doesn't bother anyone.
Crossroads - a TCP load balancer and failover proxy under GPL.
Swivel Aims To Become The Internet Archive For Data - how many people will upload company-internal or research-internal data without thinking about data protection? Nobody thinks about asking the people whose faces are on the picture if they should be published at least when it comes to videos and images ...
Ball gegen Bahn: 1 to 0 - or also "hit, sunk".
Giving It Away - Cory Doctorow on Creative-Commons licensed eBooks.
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern remains stuck with the bulk of the G8 costs - but strangely enough, the federal government decided in 2004 to hold the G8 summit there? Did none of them check the financing security beforehand? Are there only incompetent bunglers at work in Berlin? Apart from this small - ahem - election problem in MeckPomm ...
Musicovery : interactive webRadio - cool stuff, that.
You cannot rely on JavaScript being available. Period. - always offer fallbacks. Anything else is just uncool and lame.
Database test: dual Intel Xeon 5160 (6/6) - could all MySQL advocates now please take a look at the graphics and finally shut up? MySQL is a hyped flash-in-the-pan with mediocre performance (which you have to buy with self-destructing indexes) and inadequate features. Period.
Search for Hamburg's former Senator Schill - oh yes, there's also Schill.
You can find it everywhere - Polonium doesn't necessarily have to come from Russia. Interesting - it's in antistatic filter systems. Well, airbags do contain explosives too. Funny enough, no politician has yet demanded the abolition of airbags ...
Richard Dawkins - in an email interview with readers.
Seven billion for the Bundeswehr's IT project - going to SBS. Just as a reminder for me, for possible connections with the previous link ... (and Banana Republic because I honestly don't quite see how a state can be so stupid as to let a private company operate the communication system of its army)
Siemens manager spills the beans in corruption scandal - by the way, Siemens (yes, yes, ok, a subsidiary, namely SBS) has just received the contract for operating the new communication system of the Bundeswehr. Even the majority in the operating company for the project.
The Post-Rapture Post - Send Messages to Loved Ones! - hilarious!
Constitutional protector would use torture confessions - isn't it cute how the top constitutional protector tramples the protected good with his feet. And all this to protect us from a danger that has caused exactly 0 deaths in the last few years? I am sure that if we demanded a speed limit of 100 km/h on highways to reduce the number of traffic fatalities, he would also protest - after all, he can then no longer drive his Benz through the republic (I assume he has a Benz, anything less is not good enough for someone like him ...)
Adobe Photoshop Textures and Patterns Tutorials - tons of tutorials, for example on creating textures.
"Satan and the Damned" shock customers - well, I find the sickly-sweet Christmas chatter in the stores much worse than "Christmas in Hell" ...
Startling Discovery: The First Human Ritual - also includes hints of the first cleric's fraud ...
VRML / X3D and 3D Presentations - VRML Tutorial in German. For some, perhaps easier to read than the new-Westphalian that you usually find on the internet ...
Antique Precision Engineering - wow. Ancient computer for calculating astronomical objects and events.
Cabinet decides on retirement at 67 - "Where are the jobs supposed to come from when millions of older and even younger people are already out of work," asked DGB executive board member Annelie Buntenbach on ARD.
Sofanet starts neighborhood Wi-Fi - with this name, it won't work. Way too uncool.
Stop Motion Piano And Drums - crazy. I love it!
Censorship allegations against EU report on IT future - when you make goats into gardeners (like making an SAP employee the committee chairman).
3D Game Programming All in One with CDROM (Course Technology PTR Game Development Series): English Books: Kenneth C. Finney - Book about game design with TGE. Be careful, Amazon.
Leap Back - Microsoft defines 1900 as a leap year. And in their XML Office format, which they also proposed as a standard ...
The Official QuArK website - Map editor for games. Can be used with TGE.
10 Minute Mail - brilliant idea. A 10-minute-valid disposable address with a simple web interface and only the option to reply. So not misusable as a spam cannon, but ideal to register e.g. with these stupid newspaper archives or similar.
4 years of blogging - even a bit more. Because I always forget when my first post was. Well, it's not really that important ...
Microsoft's Zune DRM cracked - cute. Just rename the files and Microsoft DRM on the Zune no longer works ...
3D-Atlas Gaia no longer available - one would actually expect Google to understand things like open protocols. But the Google cheerleaders will surely be able to justify why such actions by Google are completely correct, but by Microsoft are evil ...
"Peinliche Pleite von Axel Schulz" - not everyone is a George Foreman.
Return of the Paper Disk: 256 GByte on A4 Sheet - this works well as long as no one calculates the bits, applies realistic compression rates, and then checks how many points a scanner can reliably read from it and how much remains. But then you would have to turn off your own tech faith in the editorial offices ...
Overzealous spam blacklist blocks Server4You addresses - SORBS again. Still incompetent, that place.
When the Anti-Corruption Department is involved in corruption - then it's called the economy.
EU may not transfer bank data to the USA - what do you want to bet they will find a loophole to pass the data on to the USA?
[FairGame](http://seidai.50webs.com/Seidai Software.html) - copies purchased songs via AppleScript and iMovie into new, unprotected songs (with quality loss due to the principle). Essentially, this is what you can also do manually by burning the CD and then ripping it - but no blanks are burned here.
Counterfeit goods endanger Second Life - claims the Netzzeitung. But it's not true. The CopyBot talk has been over for a long time, now only the oh-so-hip (but completely outdated) Netzzeitung notices. Previously proven damage caused by CopyBot: 0 L$. Great threat, especially gigantic inflation (strangely, the L$ has remained stable during this time). But "Copy machine for pure superficialities leaves no traces in the virtual economy of Second Life" doesn't sound nearly as dramatic ...
M8, a missed opportunity - ok, thanks Fazal, that saves me a lot of pondering (and a lot of money). Since Fazal thinks about photography in many ways similar to me, it's very practical when he does a "test" of equipment that would also suit me ...
Mannesmann trial coming to an end - because the bigwigs can simply buy their way out. That's how capitalism works.
StudiVZ: 700 Stalker and Data Protection - something from practice. Nicely researched and prepared by Don Alphonso. For all those who always come up with "I have nothing to hide, it's not that bad" when you find a vulnerability in an online system.
Owl Content has been around for quite some time now. It just runs alongside, doesn't make much of a mess, and simply does its thing. And it has now collected over 2300 articles! I just wanted to mention that. And for those who are now wondering what it is - surf over there. Read. Maybe even contribute yourself?
Thousands of criminal proceedings against Internet coffee buyers - Coffee tax. Of course. Why customs does not collect it directly from incoming packages (so far, customs has stuck its fingers into my packages - although not coffee - every time), no one has explained ...
Flickr: Camera Finder - common camera types on Flickr. What does that say? Not much, except that Flickr users use cameras.
Controlled heroin distribution on the verge of ending? - successful reintegration of heroin addicts, lives at stake (and demonstrably saved from the vicious cycle of addiction by the program), but what is politics doing? Riding on principles because such things just shouldn't exist. And presumably, all the Union bigwigs are at home getting drunk.
SAP Network use - Port numbers of the horror ERP system ...