Archive 18. August 2004

Debacle in the race against time - olympia.ARD.de

Yep, the hype and reality...

Here's the original article.

"One-Euro Job" - what is that?

State-sanctioned serfdom? Fascinating how the right to work becomes a duty to work - although back in the times of the existing GDR, there was always insistence that the GDR only had such low unemployment figures precisely because of this duty to work. And of course, at that time the duty to work was considered unthinkable for a free democracy.

At WDR.de you can find the original article.

NewsForge

Everything you never wanted to know about screenshots and screen recordings. And a bit more. On Linux.

Here's the original article.

Olympic Games: Leontien Van Moorsel's Glorious Farewell

That's good - especially since her crash a few days ago looked really nasty.

I found the original article at Radsport-News.com.

Things to make you go "Ow, stop, my head hurts!"

When the programmer of the new Virtual Machine for Perl talks about Continuation Passing and Multimethod Dispatch, that excites me. When he then pivots to Intercal and the COME FROM statement, that scares me.

At Squawks of the Parrot there is the original article.