What is RSS? - Mark Pilgrim describes the history and technical details of the RSS variants used on the web. He also provides descriptions of how to parse most of them. For anyone who wants to write their own aggregator, this is certainly a good starting point to get an overview.
Found at Meerkat: An Open Wire Service.
Happy Birthday Perl - hey, in 3 more years Perl will be of legal age
Found at use Perl.
On the subject of rail price reform: Panorama tears apart the new pricing system right now at the moment. Well, it's always important to read the fine print - and not to withhold it from customers, as the railway likes to do in advertising. The points of criticism are the usual ones: limited discount seats, ticket binding to specific trains, overnight stay requirement at the highest discount level, upgrading of regional trains to intercity trains. Hmm. They left out the horrendous cancellation fee.
And Mehdorn interspersed with his constant claim from his standpoint that it would be cheaper for everyone, just not for a few. And that it didn't get more expensive, but rather the offering got better. As they say here in Münsterland: He's lying.
Also very interesting is the report about Ooops-Koch. Things slip out of his mouth from time to time - well, it seems that flirting with the ultra-right is rather the rule than the exception for him. How else should one interpret it when he writes a foreword for a book by authors clearly to be classified as far-right extremists? Allegedly only because he wants it to be discussed, he certainly wouldn't endorse all the ideas. Laughable. When someone frequently lets things slip that so much remind one of brown sauce, then on the inside they're the same color.