Archive 29. September 2006

Blender 3D: Noob to Pro - Wikibook on Blender, specifically aimed at beginners.

Final Vote Results for Roll Call 491 - 253 members of parliament trample the Geneva Convention and the American Constitution by confirming the illegal activities of the US administration in places like Guantanamo. Of course, I'm just imagining all of this again and am simply anti-American.

Union sees BenQ-Mobile insolvency as a "dirty trick" - cute, how the prolethicians are now spinning up and think they have to be harnessed in front of the cart. Where was Rüttgers' protest during the sale? That the sale was a rigged deal to get rid of the employees was already noticeable back then - the shareholder structure and liability situation as well as the distribution of values among the three companies has not been like this only since yesterday.

Google Sketchup -> Second Life export - cool, a - albeit still very rudimentary - exporter from Sketchup to SecondLife. I should check it out, offline-building would be interesting. And it could perhaps be a starting point for me, as I just don't get along with Blender.

The GPL is not a compromise - a point that is missing in the current discussion about GPLv3: the GPL is a community license. It's not about the rights of the producer, the central core is the right of the user. The excitement of Linus and some others is therefore quite amusing: because Linus is a producer here. Producers have always been upset about the GPL. The question is: do users need protection against DRM? Yes, otherwise the GPL will only be waste paper in the DRM-infested future that threatens us.

tutorial - walk cycle - a tutorial on how to animate a walking motion.