Daring Fireball: Markdown Syntax Documentation - Interesting text conversion to XHTML for PHP and Perl - similar to reStructured Text

A Slap in the Face for the Chancellor

If I were to slap every politician and official who doesn't suit me, my hand would fall off from pain...

At tagesschau.de - The News from ARD you can find the original article.

EU states agree on software patents [Update]

Once again proof of the stupidity and/or corruption of the EU Commissions and Councils. For how else could one explain such nonsense? There are not many European companies that could have an interest in software patents. But American companies are certainly ready to ram their idiotic patents through Europe and kick competitors out of the market.

There is no macroeconomic need for blocking patents - and that is precisely what software patents are.

That this decision also clearly goes against the decision of the elected representatives of the people - parliament - apparently bothers no one anymore ...

At heise online news there is the original article.

GPs threaten health insurance boycott

Of course such an extortion strategy is entirely in the interest of the patient and health and has nothing to do with rip-off and shirking of responsibility. How could anyone get the idea that in a health system with problems all stakeholders must accept disadvantages. Absurd notion, when it is so clearly obvious that only the patients have drawn the short straw. Whatever you do, don't touch the vested interests ...

At tagesschau.de - Die Nachrichten der ARD you can find the original article.

Nu Cardboard: Kangapy: Components

Another blogging software in Python - seems similar to PyDS

papercut.org - nntp server for the masses - NNTP server with flexible backend - integrable in forum software

Rob Galbraith DPI: Digital Photo Professional, EOS Viewer Utility coming May 20

Well, it's about time that Canon cleaned up their outdated RAW utilities. The previous ones (File Viewer Utility and Image Browser) are terribly slow and rather mediocre in terms of usability. Hopefully the release of the new tools with 10D support will come fairly soon, and hopefully Canon won't forget the OS X platform again...

Here's the original article.

Shrook 2 - RSS and Atom for Mac OS X - Yet another feed reader for OS X - similar to iTunes

Struck: No Punishment for Wolffsohn

Oh, he apologized? Well then everything is fine. It's not really a problem anyway, he only teaches at the Bundeswehr University of Applied Sciences, where future officers are trained. And after all, they need to be prepared for when Germany defends democracy at the Hindukush or elsewhere sometime ...