Full map of Europe in year 1000 - wouldn't that be something for the rider of the shockwave?
Archive 25. June 2007
Google Mail will shut down due to data retention - sounds dramatic, right? Google as a champion of privacy and data protection. I'm laughing now. And those who think that Google is now fighting for its rights: sorry, but what they will probably do is simply block German IP addresses on their service. If at all.
Content filter for Second Life - given the current picture of LL's technical competence, such an announcement doesn't really inspire confidence.
Schäuble considers online searches "essential" - strangely, I feel far more threatened by the rolling madness in Berlin than by any Islamists. The Berlin Prolethicians, who support this nonsense, however, seem primarily threatened by their own population. Why else would they have such broad powers to investigate and examine any citizen at will? Does what is happening there still have anything to do with democratic order?
XGP - OS X IDE for GNU Prolog (which includes a native code compiler). Hmm.