A Response to the Noise is photomatt's response to the search engine spamming story. As I read through it, I once again notice how incredibly stupid decent programmers behave outside their neatly ordered computer world...
Well, he dismantled everything that was involved and eventually Google might give him back his PageRank (update: has given back) and life goes on. His explanation sounds stupid enough to be believable.
"Outrage and lack of explanation" at Team Gerolsteiner, because Danilo Hondo tested positive for stimulants at the Murcia Round. Oh shit.
I hope that was a mistake or there is an explanation (medication or something similar). Otherwise, that would be pretty bad, especially for Team Gerolsteiner, which has gained quite a bit of sympathy - precisely because of its rather human appearances, it comes across much better than the T-Mobile team.
Html Validator for Firefox and Mozilla - wow. Great extension: it directly validates the displayed webpage and integrates into the source view for debugging errors. Very nice - and has been featured in several weblogs in recent days (I don't remember where I first saw it).
Lufthansa's anniversary offers bring web servers to a standstill - after suing various people because of the online demo I now wonder: is Lufthansa going to sue its marketing department?
RFC4041: Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts. A.... - exactly, this has been pending for a long time. We finally need to route in a morally correct way!
Security risk: Password protection for hard drives - yes, great, what a stupid idea by the manufacturers
upcoming change in PLT Scheme v300 - lambda, filter and fold out. Right. After all, Python's Guido has already demanded this.