Archive 26. January 2004

MPs receive 1,950 euros more

And surely this provides many good reasons why the markup on a member of parliament's salary must be higher than the average monthly wage of a worker ...

At RP-Online: Politik I found the original article.

ASPN : Python Cookbook : Syntax-highlighted code blocks for docutils - Source Highlighter für viele Sprachen als Python Modul

Bill Gates Predicts Successful Fight Against Spam

That's making me more scared than courageous now ...

Teufelsgrinsen

At heise online news you can find the original article.

Color management

A pretty nice introduction to color management and what it means. In typical Petteri style, a bit cheeky and humorous. My personal highlight: If you're shooting or converting to Adobe RGB. Adobe RGB pictures displayed on a non-colorspace-aware application or badly color-managed system will look wrong, wrong, wrong. The colors will be flat and gray. If you like them that way, fine -- but remember they'll come out bright and vivid if you send them to a competently run photo lab that prints from digital originals. To ensure flat and gray prints, use sRGB and make them flat and gray in your image editor instead.

Here's the original article.

Dark Chocolate with Surprising Side Effect

Ok, I'm going to buy heart medication later

At RP-Online: Science I found the original article.

End of Management

Interesting thoughts on the difference between manager and entrepreneur.

At Telepolis News you can find the original article.

Fast-Food Experiment

The man made sacrifices for his film: lived on McDonald's for an entire month. And the result? Liver damage.

Bon appétit.

At Telepolis News you can find the original article.

French Culture Minister Calls for Laws Against Illegal Music Sharing

And I demand a law against stupid politicians who — ignoring the interests and rights of citizens — allow themselves to be harnessed to the wagon of whatever industrial interests.

At heise online news there is the original article.

Gerster sees himself as victim of a campaign

I'm just saying: black helicopters!

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

I need a CSS expert with IE 6 Win experience

Specifically, it's because of my current layout. As I was told in the comments, IE 6 on the PC is no longer displaying the headings. All other browsers I test with (Safari, Camino, Firebird, IE 5.2 Mac) display everything correctly. I don't have IE 6 for Windows (I don't have Windows to begin with), but surely someone out there has one and knows what I can do to get IE to display it properly. I'd like to keep the layout as it is and preferably not have to use too many perverse CSS hacks. But of course IE users should still be able to read something here – I'm not trying to be that mean to them, even though they do have to use the devil's operating system.

Linux Kernel on Windows

Perverted.

At heise online news you can find the original article.