Geonames - maps names of cities, mountains etc. to geographic information (and vice versa). Plus a web service to use this data. The whole thing as a community project with data content under CC license. Very cool.
Archive 26.9.2006 - 10.10.2006
Google code search - funny games with the code search.
Lightning exits woman's bottom - autsch.
MoinX - very nice. MoinMoin with OS X Controller in the menu bar. Ok, not the feel of VoodooPad - it is still a web application - but the performance of MoinMoin is not to be underestimated.
100,000-year-old camel bones found - rumored to be the party chairman of a large conservative people's party.
China's Cheap Goods: Who Really Benefits? - worth thinking about.
Justice Ministry sees no need for changes to "hacker tool" paragraphs - the next botched job is in the making ...
PTB: No indications of tampered voting computers - "A real attack would require a considerable amount of criminal energy combined with special skills of the perpetrators to change the control software of the devices unnoticed." Fascinating argument, I would have expected that a considerable amount of criminal energy would be the basic prerequisite for a voting machine manipulation, and not something particularly noteworthy in that context ...
Security vulnerability in Python 2.3 and above - definitely not just Ubuntu, but also Debian. Ubuntu is only linked because there is no security advisory from Debian yet. Is someone sleeping?
Uni Mannheim will Informatik-Institut schließen - after it was established just 10 years ago with around 100 million in tax money. And although the place seems to have quite a respectable output. Well, and for such paper-nose operations, students should then pay tuition fees ... (on the other hand, the question to the companies that are advocating for its preservation: if the connections are so good, why doesn't the company side offer support? In the form of free research funds?)
Your Ancestors Disgust Me - you inbred spawn of illiterate, unhygienic, penis-worshipping child molesters!
3D-Scanner aus Webcam und Laser für jedermann - wow, cool!
6502asm.com - 6502 compatible compiler and emulator in javascript - completely crazy. I love it.
Fefe's Blog - about the media's "reactions" to the voting machine hack.
How to create a new generation of scientists. - awesome. Bringing science closer.
Parallelport-Adapter with USB and Bluetooth - I still have an old Epson (A2 inkjet printer - you don't just give something like that away), which I could actually revive with this ...
Scribus/Aqua - manual installation (why don't they package the libs in the application bundle?), but maybe still worth a look.
Gizmondo's Spectacular Crack-up - Background of a game console manufacturer. Reads like a John LeCarre ...
iCalamus.net - sometimes they come back ... (hey, what's the panic, they only want to eat your brain!)
Nedap-Wahlcomputer gehackt - these are the same voting computers used in our country ... (which, by the way, received a certificate from the PTI - so much for the suitability of the PTI for testing such devices)
New drug blocks influenza, including bird flu virus - wow. If there's something to it, wow.
Chess computer - a few more small details about the voting computer hack. Only fh's hope that this would have done away with voting computers, I do not share. Politicians are forgetful and resistant to learning.
Publishers demand unrestricted right to information from providers - Data protection? Oh, forget it. Nobody even knows that word anymore. Terrorists, child abusers, and copyright infringers - with these, you can push through anything today, even a total police state or a snitch state.
Exploding Hello Kitty toys recalled - that was. definitely.
immaterial music - a label run by the musicians. Music under CC license.
Novell will SCO an die Kriegskasse - and wants to relieve SCO of 25 million from license sales. Nice move by Novell ...
PubSigs - another band under CC license - they deliver their music as a podcast for iTunes right away.
Shearer - kick ass rock. Under CC license.
A-Bike - a super-compact folding bike by Sir Clive Sinclair (yes, the guy who brought us the ZX 81). At 200 pounds not even overpriced - it would be interesting to read some ride reports (and about the stability - so far none of the Sinclair products have been overly stable ...)
ATI-Graphics Chips Fold Proteins Faster - of course. Just a matter of time until the GPUs become more powerful than the CPUs.
Teacher Fired Due to Dallas Museum of Art Fieldtrip - the trip was approved by the school administration and the parents had previously signed a waiver. Nevertheless, the teacher is fired due to a piece of art in a museum ...
Vmware how to - OSx86 - a guide on how to run Mac OS X under VMWare on a regular PC.
Blender 3D: Noob to Pro - Wikibook on Blender, specifically aimed at beginners.
Final Vote Results for Roll Call 491 - 253 members of parliament trample the Geneva Convention and the American Constitution by confirming the illegal activities of the US administration in places like Guantanamo. Of course, I'm just imagining all of this again and am simply anti-American.
Union sees BenQ-Mobile insolvency as a "dirty trick" - cute, how the prolethicians are now spinning up and think they have to be harnessed in front of the cart. Where was Rüttgers' protest during the sale? That the sale was a rigged deal to get rid of the employees was already noticeable back then - the shareholder structure and liability situation as well as the distribution of values among the three companies has not been like this only since yesterday.
Google Sketchup -> Second Life export - cool, a - albeit still very rudimentary - exporter from Sketchup to SecondLife. I should check it out, offline-building would be interesting. And it could perhaps be a starting point for me, as I just don't get along with Blender.
The GPL is not a compromise - a point that is missing in the current discussion about GPLv3: the GPL is a community license. It's not about the rights of the producer, the central core is the right of the user. The excitement of Linus and some others is therefore quite amusing: because Linus is a producer here. Producers have always been upset about the GPL. The question is: do users need protection against DRM? Yes, otherwise the GPL will only be waste paper in the DRM-infested future that threatens us.
tutorial - walk cycle - a tutorial on how to animate a walking motion.
BenQ Mobile files for insolvency in Germany - strange. When the part was sold by Siemens, it was loudly proclaimed that it wasn't just about buying this part for the customers and the technology, but that the location should be preserved. And now, just after the employment guarantee has expired, insolvency is conveniently filed.
Mason - Game for WorldForge, which reminds of SecondLife in concept (based on user-created content).
Siemens board sees danger of a hostile takeover - funny, if now the economy argues with the locusts, whose existence they previously so vehemently denied ...
Types of Mazes - Types of Mazes.
Welcome to the WorldForge Project. - could an OpenSource alternative to SecondLife emerge from this?
E.ON raises Endesa offer to 35 euros per share - isn't it nice when a German corporation can just spend 10 billion euros on buying a foreign company? About the record profits made with our money for electricity, gas etc.? And which will certainly lead to "necessary price increases due to cost pressure"? And you find that completely normal?
Freeplay Energy Plc. - rechargeable battery system powered by pedal force.
Idiotic examples of corporate cost-cutting - well, shocking, how much of this nonsense you also see here in this country ...
One Planet Many People - cool, an environmental atlas using Google Maps technology by UNEP. Sometimes Web 2.0 can indeed be more than just silly marketing hype.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is standing up against WIPO - because WIPO wants to grant broadcasters rights, even to content they do not have exclusive rights to (e.g. CC-licensed material).
In Tiny Courts of N.Y., Abuses of Law and Power - Part-time judges without adequate education (not just training, but also general knowledge). With the possibility to put others in jail. Not in some banana republic, but in New York State in the USA.