Also Kohl tested positive - Holy Cow! I'm starting to feel sorry for Holczer. How cycling can become a sporting event again after the recent pharmacy parade is becoming increasingly unclear to me. If even sympathizers like Holczer, who is not from the "old stable" but rather a newcomer, is being completely taken advantage of by his riders, what is left? And how can cycling motivate sponsors like Gerolsteiner - who have always worked with the rather "nice" image of the Holczer team and have not built up a performance pressure like Festina - to stay involved? Ultimately, cyclists are destroying their own livelihood.
Archive 13. October 2008
Government supports banks with up to 400 billion euros - Money for social benefits? Forget it, we need to have a balanced budget! Money for incompetent bankers? Of course, how many hundred billion shall it be?
Buzzaire - Metered Dose Caffeine Inhaler - well, that's pretty crazy: a caffeine inhaler. I guess when you use it, any warranty on your body is void ...
Downloading Hugs - I just have to play with Haskell again (and fail again with this quirky language ...). And there is a quite nice Windows version of the "small" interpreter Hugs - might be something for my Eee-PC.
ECMAScript 4 - Progress - those who want to know why ECMAScript will again be dumber in the next version than it could be, can take a look at which points are all rejected by Apple ...
IM Functionality On Twitter Suspended Indefinitely - somehow Twitter is reducing itself to irrelevance. First, SMS is turned off for almost all relevant regions of the world (except in this strange bilingual North American area and in the largest banana union in the world - oh yes, and also in India), now IM is finally going down the drain at Twitter. What remains? A rather meager web application that you have to painstakingly poll on the go if you want to see what's going on.
.:: NOTEPAD++ ::. - since I'm still setting up my Asus, I've blogged about it - could this be an alternative to Textwrangler on the Mac?
Overclock Your Body With Geek Cuisine - Alternatives to coffee. Although my Nespresso makes such good espresso that I tend to rely on it for my regular caffeine supply.
Shapeways | passionate about creating - 3D print-on-demand. Could be interesting.
Slipstream - Intuition + Money - An Aha Moment - interesting development in silicon wafers. If the 100-fold performance can also be implemented in real products, that would be fantastic news for solar cell-based solar energy.
T-Mobile Board Calls Own Corporation a Mess - "At Vodafone, former Federal Family Minister Renate Schmidt is to serve as an ombudswoman to improve customer data protection and compliance with regulations. The SPD member of parliament will be available as a contact person for employees at Germany's second-largest mobile network operator starting in November if they are confronted with legally or ethically questionable matters or even suspect violations of the law," the company announced in Düsseldorf." - huh? Politician as an ethical advisor? Goat? Gardener?
The ORIGINAL Illustrated Catalog Of ACME Products - no comment.
the world's most bad-ass grotesques and gargoyles - since my character in SL is usually a gargoyle, a very fitting link.
Why 42 ? - for reference.