Archive 26. August 2003

12:38:30: Women Are Like Web Servers

Um, yes. Or something like that.

At ::ab::gebloggt:: there's the original article.

bash is new default terminal shell in Panther

Woah! That's almost like changing VI's default editor to Emacs

Well, I think it's good, I'll admit I'm a Bash softie (but please not Emacs. My depravity has limits somewhere!).

At The Macintosh News Network you can find the original article.

Christiania should become more normal

The Danish government wants to normalize Christiania (the free zone in the middle of Denmark). The residents of Christiania (and not only they) see it somewhat differently of course: they see it as the destruction of their own small culture. That's why a demonstration is scheduled for August 30th - if you're in the area, you can demonstrate for a little bit of self-determined culture.

It's a shame how small autonomous groups are destroyed everywhere. In Germany with its obsession for order, you'd expect something like that by now (unfortunately), but in Denmark it used to be different...

Here's the original article.

Müller wants to favor parents in pensions

What nonsense. If this idiot hasn't noticed yet: we childless people already pay heavily in taxes because we have no children. Of course it then makes sense to be penalized again in retirement. What else? Bring back the Mother's Cross?

At tagesschau im Internet you can find the original article.

How Wikis Grow and Thrive

Anyone who has ever wondered what it would look like to visualize changes in wikis has found an answer with IBM Watson Research Center. Fascinating graphic depictions of, for example, vandalism in a wiki and the reactions to it.

Here is the original article.