Archive 28. September 2007

Outrage over EU plans for «web censorship» - latest from Looney Land. We have funny years ahead of us, with crazy politicians with control freak neurosis and the most absurd ideas about reality.

Flying Logic : Software for Visual Planning Support - hmm. Constraint Solver as a graphical tool. Sounds quite interesting.

Netherlands: End for Nedap Voting Computers - and what about us? Everything is still being declared as totally secure. Keeping your head in the sand prevents you from noticing what's happening around you ...

Black money affair: Kanther gets away with a fine - not everyone is equal before the law. Or does anyone believe that as a regular citizen they could have wriggled out of it so easily? Against a clear violation of the law by a federal minister (who, like all officials, has sworn an oath to our constitution - but what is that worth these days)?

Tour: Rasmussen had artificial EPO in his urine - new techniques, already hard at work. Well, we can probably bury cycling for good now, because by the time the associations and anti-doping agencies catch up, the topic will have spread far and wide again. What really gets to me: this silly whining of the caught and suspected, their pathetic media fuss.

What the end of the world looks like - «Approximately 20 million curies, half as much as during the Chernobyl disaster, were released», explains nuclear expert Vladimir Kuznetsov. A radioactive cloud drove a veritable swath of contamination hundreds of kilometers into the Urals. But containment of the accident damage only began ten hours later. The local administration waited for a signal from Moscow.