Amazon No!
Well, Lehmanns Online Bookshop is also a nice bookshop. And there are certainly others ... (that's just the one that comes to mind right now)
At Der Schockwellenreiter you can find the original article.
Archive 27. February 2003
Library That Never Closes
Note. Might be worth poking around in there.
At netbib weblog you can find the original article.
Clean Now Available under LGPL License
Yeah! One of my favorite functional languages now under a usable free license. Once the Linux version progresses further, I can finally do something with it at work.
I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.
Discontinuation of NPD Ban Proceedings Expected
A dismissal would be a real embarrassment for the prosecution. Bungled preparation makes an effective action against the NPD impossible. What's the result? The browns will use the whole thing as justification and see themselves strengthened and confirmed in their position. Great. Super success
At tagesschau im Internet there's the original article.
Google Receives Patent for Ranking Technology
Great class. Another nail in the coffin of alternative search engines? Are new search engines no longer allowed to emerge in the land of the free because absurd patent grants are shackling freedom and innovation? Anyway, Americans aren't allowed to smoke pipes anymore either. They might as well enshrine Google usage in their constitution. But please without the word googlen, otherwise the lawyer will complain... At heise online news there's the original article.
Now there's a USB hot cup?
Well, if the USB toothbrush has already fascinated the Schockwellenreiter so much, what will he say about the USB teacup?
I found the original article at Gizmodo.
Pentax *ist D
Hmm. What does that bring? Well, at least it would be cool to put old, classic K lenses on the Digi :-)
At Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com) you can find the original article.
He is still frozen.
Still frozen.
The last cold days? Hopefully also the last bare days, I finally want to see green plants that are not called rhododendron, juniper bush or arborvitae...
Baby animals ...
Baby animals ...
... I can't offer those, but a baby tin dinosaur is something too. By the way, it stands with its relatives in terms of species and material around the Natural History Museum.
Wild Forest
Wild Forest.
Between Aasee and the zoo is a small patch of forest. Trampled ground, well-worn paths, even stairs on the slopes. Well, it's the Sunday stroll area at Aasee, so you have to play around with the frame a bit to still get an impression of nature.
Bad times for future apprentices
And then employers complain that they can't find qualified employees anymore. Where are they supposed to come from if not from training — out of thin air? Training is still the most efficient way to develop qualified employees. When will employers finally understand that?
You can find the original article on tagesschau im Internet at this link.
US Justice Seizes Domain Name
Probably the terrorists are smoking a pipe before their attacks and planning the assaults on cracked X-Boxes. So it's all just part of the fight against terror
American law enforcement and the government really can't think of any measure that's too absurd at the moment. But if someone officially says something against, for example, Scientology here, we're accused of having no culture of freedom.
At heise online news there's the original article.
Space veteran "Pioneer 10" has gone silent
Too bad. Let us all give the old-timer one last wave up there.
At Spiegel Online: Wissenschaft there is the original article.
Addition to the Camera Collection
Well, soon a Kodak DC 4800 digital camera will probably be adding to my collection of unnecessary photo equipment.
Why that one in particular? Well, it has image quality that's generally considered quite good, relatively conventional operation (ok, only three selectable apertures, but still - and exposure compensation via its own dial instead of silly menus) and the zoom is a 28-84 instead of those silly 38-whatever lenses in other digis.
I mean, it's true: what's the point of a digital camera if its focal length only goes from normal focal length (ok, somewhat wider than normal, but the difference isn't really that big) to telephoto? I occasionally need wide angle, and constantly screwing on a converter is annoying.
My E-100RS will certainly still have its place, but especially for the stuff in my photo blog, the Kodak certainly isn't impractical.
Let's see what comes of it.