20 Ways to Use Gmail Filters - nothing groundbreaking, but a series of nice tricks for Google's webmailer.
Archive 30. May 2007
ARD/ZDF want to not extend Tour contract for now - will the media ever face their part of the responsibility for all this mess? I mean, if coverage is only about hype and normal performances are more or less completely ignored, if only the ultimate victory counts - then one should not be surprised if athletes adapt to this ideal image. The athlete takes performance-enhancing drugs, of course. But somewhere the reason for this is laid - and the image of the athlete in the public is certainly an important factor.
German government specifies obligations for archiving web content - oh man, if I don't have work, I create some? Stupid people. My blog is available to everyone under a CC license. If the national library thinks it needs to be archived, they should move their virtual ass over and regularly scrape it, just like Google and others already do. Otherwise, they can leave me alone at my rear pixels ...
duplicity - encrypted differential tar archives. Sounds interesting for backups.
Court prohibits sending articles by email - always everything for the benefit of rights holders. Because they are, after all, an essential part of the education system and society. Quite the opposite of universities, which are just freeloaders. Such things must be fundamentally prevented, where would we end up if a non-profit association (founded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Science) had the right to supply universities with information cost-effectively and efficiently.
GVU and Investigations - "The employees of the GVU are not neutral experts."
Our oceans are turning into plastic...are we? - how plastic waste accumulates in the ocean and enters the food chain (and thus onto our plates) via fish. More plastic than plankton - shocking.
Park Place, the Amazon-S3 clone - in Ruby.
VI in JavaScript - yes, you read that right. VI. In JavaScript. In the web browser. The pain!