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Aufzaehlung des Jahres · 31.12.05

Man eh, das hoert gar nich auf heute. Das hier hat frau Merkel gerade in ihrer neujahrsansprache zum besten gegeben: Jeder von uns kann sich engagieren "... mit Kranken, mit Behinderten, mit bei uns lebenden Auslaendern..." Die redenschreiber merken gar nicht, was sie da zusammenzimmern. Das hat doch frau merkel nicht selber ausbaldovert. In diesem sinne ein schoenes neues jahr "... mit Kranken, mit Behinderten, mit bei uns lebenden Auslaendern..."

Sozialgericht Bremen gegen perfiden AnmaÃƒÅ¸er · 31.12.05

Das besonders herzige Sozialgericht aus/in Bremen hat den shopblogger vorgeworfen, dass einer seiner artikel von google unter den ersten zehn treffern platziert wird, wenn man denn "Sozialgericht Bremen" (strittige googleabfrage) eingibt. Im schreiben droht das Sozialgerichts aus/in Bremen, sollte der frevler seinen beitrag nicht bei google weiter hinten einsortierten, gerichtliche schritte an.

Und das, liebe(r) mitarbeiter/In des Sozialgerichts in/aus Bremen, ist gelinde gesagt eine frechheit. In dem beanstandeten artikel ueber das Sozialgericht in/aus Bremen wird in keinster weise versucht, den eindruck zu erwecken, es handle sich um einen beitrag des Sozialgerichts in/aus Bremen.

Ach ja, noch was, liebe(r) mitarbeiter/In des Sozialgerichts in/aus Bremen. Wenn man bei google vorne mitspielen moechte, sollte man zuerst technisch einwandfreie und barrierefreie dokumente, mit sinnvollen titeln und womoeglich sinnvollen internetadressen anbieten, die ein automat, wie google auch lesen, auswerten und dann entsprechend hoch wichten kann. All das scheint das Sozialgericht in/aus Bremen zu unterlassen, obwohl es entsprechende rechtliche vorgaben fuer den deutschen oeffentlichen sektor gibt. Aber mit den gerichtlichen schritten, wegen des berechtigten interesses, da sind sie schnell bei der hand beim Sozialgericht in/aus Bremen.

Die eckdaten des kontaktdokuments des Sozialgerichts sind die folgenden. Man muss sich wundern, dass man damit bei der strittigen suche ueberhaupt stattfindet:

aktuelle adresse: http://www.bremen.de/sixcms/list.php? page=01_visitenkarte_p&sv%5bold_id%5d=117761
aktueller Titel: bremen.online - Freie Hansestadt Bremen -

Der vater eines models aus bergisch gladbach, deren namen man nicht nennen darf, da man sich sonst der namensanmassung schuldig macht, ist zeitgleich auf dem gleichen trip. Hauptsache seine anwaelte verdienen gehoerig. Heidenei, mir klumpt die sosse.

Link Dump · 31.12.05

And again I'm not going to add a lot to internet's white noise today. So, go reading elsewhere. vowe.net found this lovely piece of advice, which I post here as well, hoping the right people will read it: "Petrol is going up. Get a smaller tank."

The pic was taken by Mariano

What else? Hebig.org notices that right now the last shift at Lohberg mine ends. With this, 100 years of coal mining in Dinslaken end.

People who still want more interesting reading and speak german can of course always go to the very respected rabenhorst, who has been busy covering the current situation in the fields of privacy, human- and civil-rights. He found this world map depicting the state of the so called war on terror (Larger Version) from the amnesty international point of view ... and there is more over there at rabehorst's.

3D Haus Vom Nikolaus · 29.12.05

3D haus vom nikolaus, animierte grafik Hier ist das unerreichte 3-dimensionale haus vom Nikolaus. Zweidimensional ueben kann man hier: Die Elf Todeskammern des Haus-Kung-Fu der Shaolin-Nikolaeuse.

... natuerlich kein vergleich zu einem 3d nikolaushaus. Das kann man sich dann, wenn man zweidimensionaler nikolaus-haus-meister ist, mit wickeldraht vom toom basteln. Sozusagen, als machbarkeitsstudie. Am ende nimmt man dann povray oder einen anderen 'raytracer' und dann kann man loslegen.

Blogcounter Suspended · 28.12.05

For the moment I'm suspending blogcounter. This is for the reason given here. I'm not sure whether the accusations are true ... but I'm no risk taker. Of course I won't install Sixtus's recommendation. That'd be way too stampedish.

Update: http://www.technorati.com/search/stadtblogs.de. Man, burntime got them with their undies dropped. I herewith do suspend blogcounter. Thanks for checking this, burntime.

Binary Bible · 28.12.05

Here is evidence that the binary system as means of communication, hence computers have a truly biblical affirmation:

But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil. [Matthew 5:37]

Beside studying the Bible i was busy with penguin matters, which would be the reason for the long lasting silence over here.

Best Blonde Joke Ever · 23.12.05

This blonde joke is freakin funny and yet has a subtile truth. Lovely ...

Frustrating Time-Consuming Fruitless · 23.12.05

The EU wanted Microsoft to publish it's software interface documentations to enable free and healthy competition on the european software marked. To proove Microsoft's compliantness an independent monitor was asked. Professor Neil Barrett, an IT specialist and independent monitor approved by Microsoft, had this to say about Microsoft's interface documentation:

"Using the documentation is an absolutely frustrating, time-consuming and ultimately fruitless task." [via Guardian]

... but hey, I thought Microsofts whole product line was established to be absolutely frustrating, time-consuming and ultimately fruitless. Or wasn't it?

del.icio.us popular sewing · 22.12.05

Look who 's top of the heap at http://del.icio.us/popular/sewing ... Folks, it is high time to join the party and become a free cuddler. Otherwise you won't be called 'early adopter' anymore.

(crosspost free-penguin.org)

Heute Aber Echt · 21.12.05

Und heute nochmal, denn heute passt es eigentlich viel besser als seinerzeit:

"Was ich wollte, liegt zerschlagen,
Herr, ich lasse ja das Klagen,
und das Herz ist still.
Nun aber gib auch Kraft zu tragen,
was ich nicht will!"

...von Eichendorff.

Im Blickpunkt: Open Source · 21.12.05

Sechs bunte seiten aus der staatskanzlei nordrhein westfalen mit dem titel "Im Blickpunkt: Open Source". Die broschuere richtet sich wahrscheinlich an entscheider ohne, sagen wir mal, gewaltigen technischen sachverstand. Fuer interessierte, die an debatten im IT dunstkreis teilnehmen, kann das blaettchen eine brauchbare gehhilfe sein: Im Blickpunkt: Open Source

(entwickler.com)

Healing Hands · 20.12.05

Look, someone is acting as if he was the messiah. I wonder if he just does it subconciously or if he was trained. However, the bible belt telly audience will love it, but still, do not fall for it. Read his latest radio adress, in which he explains why his higher cause gives him permission to sneak after U.S. citizens, hence gives him permission to break the law.

(via vowe, voxenig)

Santas Run Berserk · 19.12.05

AlJazeera.net reports on Sunday 18 December 2005, 10:21 Makka Time, that 40 Santas, many of them apparently drunk, went on a rampage through Auckland, New Zealand's largest city, raiding stores, assaulting security guards and urinating from highway overpasses ...

...read it all

German Expressionism · 18.12.05

archive.org features some great pieces of german expressionism. Right now they offering the following silent movies for download. These movies are real freakkin' classics:

Nosferatu (1922) directed by Friedrich W. Murnau
The Golem (1920) directed by Carl Boese and Paul Wegener
Metropolis (1927) directed by Fritz Lang
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari directed by Robert Wiene

Since those movies are silent one could well watch them during office hours, though I do not recommend it.

(via rabenhorst)

Verbauchertip: Herrmanns Reutlingen · 15.12.05

Mein verbrauchertip, fuer den ich nichts berechne ...

Gut essen in Reutlingen? Einfach. Im 'herrmanns', in der Rathausstrasse 12, gibt es exzellentes mit lokalkollorit zu zivilen preisen im ambiente einer sushi bar. Janz gross is dit.

Breaking Yard · 13.12.05

(via bldgblog)

Birds and Podcasts · 12.12.05

Guardian Unlimited airs (or is it wires?) podcasts by Ricky Gervais. Lovely eccentricity. Almost as eccentric as those dutch people. They not only eat loads of cheese and they do it well below sea level. They, furthermore, have domino days. The recent domino day was sabotaged by a sparrow toppling 24.000 dominoes. The sabotage ended in a fatal shooting. The death sparrow is now to be exhibited in the Natural History Museum of Rotterdam, where it'll have a new neighbour. A mallard duck that was the first ever recorded victim of homosexual necrophilia.

Isn't this a sufficiently weird world, we are populating?

(via ImprobableResearch, Cartoonist)

Google Tyrell & Sons · 10.12.05

Some weeks ago, Googles activities in practically all internet related fields made Dahlman compare Google and Blade Runner's Tyrell Corporation. Just now, I heard a feature about Googles attemps to digitalse the world's books, hence knowledge. In this feature the Google representative told us Google's credo: 'Do No Evil'. This credo made me remember Dahlman's comparison.

(Thanks to Patrick Parnteau for the orig. Blimp)

Noch ein Alphamaennchen · 10.12.05

Was durfte ich da im mit kultur ueberschriebenen teil des Stern vom 30.11. lesen?

... wenn frauen die chance bekommen, an der seite eines hoch gewachsenen alphamaennchens mit vollem haupthaar und unvermurkster libido gluecklich zu werden, ...

Da hab ick jedacht: Is ja nett, wahr und trotzdem von schlichter eleganz, wie hier ueber mich geschrieben wird. Haett ick selber nich schoener anfangen koennen, den satz. Weiter gings mit:

...vermasseln zu kurz gekommene drehbuchautoren das happy end.

Wat? Wieso drehbuchautoren? Ach so. Es ging dann wohl doch um King Kong. Aber wart's nur ab, du ueberschaetzter affe, beim kriterium 'zu kurz gekommener drehbuchautor vermasselt happy end', da hol' ick dir auch noch ein.

Mit diesem beitrag hab ich Peter Jacksons King Kong besprochen, ohne drin gewesen zu sein, toll nech?

State of the Union Parser · 7.12.05

This one is kinda a interesting. Take the transscripts of George w. Bush's state of the union adresses and write a little web interface that lets you mark the occurence of certain words. The result is The State of the Union Parser

(via InformationAesthetics)

Kann ja nichts werden · 6.12.05

Eine sache faellt mir jetzt zum wiederholten mal unangenehm auf: Wie wollen wir denn je wieder deutschland werden, wenn wir unser babyschwimmen bei 32 - 34Ã‚Â°C wassertemperatur veranstalten?

In Finnland klappt das besser, wie man sieht. Den erfolg kann man dann an den PISA ergebnissen sehen.

(picture from balticlifejackets.com)

Welcoming a Visitor · 6.12.05

Who the heck do you think you are? You come here. You eat our cookies. You drink our tea. You kidnap our citizens. You kidnap your citizens. You bribe our government and you still have the guts to tell us, it was for our best? Is it for our best, that you drag freedom, lawfulness and democracy, the very core of the western values, through the ditches of torture, corruption and arbitrariness? Heck, your services behave like columbian death squads. Is this for our best?

At least read the stories of Maher Arar and Khalid El-Masri. Is it for our best to set aside the merest standards? It is not.

Caution - Rabies in Town · 5.12.05

Eptesicus serotinus died from rabies Hi folks, If you live in Berlin-Neukoelln, and recently had contact to the Eptesicus serotinus on the right, go straight to the doctor's. The little fella died from rabies and if it has bitten you, you will as well. Well, unless you do not run for treatment right now. Furthermore, it is not clear whom the little chap got rabies from, so stay away from furry individuals that behave strange in Berlin ... including me.

For further information call +49-(0)30-6809-2717 or -2963 or +49-(0)151-17407763. Be prepared to speak german.

(via schockwellenreiter)

Feed Iraq and Get Rich ... or Die Tryin' · 5.12.05

Now this is something an economist loves to deal with. It is a about patents, feeding and politics. Today we are going to take a closer look at the "Coalition Provisional Authority Order Number 81". This order tackles "Patent, Industrial Design, Undisclosed Information, Integrated Circuits and Plant Variety Law". Who has written it and where is it applied? Well, Order 81 is written by the Coalition Provisional Authority under Paul Bremer, thus it is applied in Iraq.

While dealing with patents, industrial design and integrated circuits they have a neat chapter on breeding new varieties of plants. One obviously can, and this was new for me, file patents for seeds in Iraq. Interesting, Iraq is not really the hot spot in industrial plant enhancement, is it? Filing a patent on a new variety leads to the following legislation:

A. After registration of the variety, the following acts with respect to the propagating material of the protected variety shall require the authorisation of the breeder:

production or reproduction (multiplication);

conditioning for the purpose of propagation;

offering for sale;

selling or otherwise marketing;

exporting;

importing; or

stocking for any of the purposes mentioned cited in this paragraph.

This sounds next to boring, doesn't it? Yet, it isn't. Iraqi agriculture is characterised by small farmers, who would keep, trade and alter seeds with no bureaucracy involved on a everyday basis. This concept, carried out for thousands of years now, is practically banned by Order 81. How can a farmer deal with this legislation? Easy, he from now on, buys seeds, and with it the license to grow, harvest and sell, from a company. I have a sneaking' suspicion about what companies the Coalition Provisional Authority under Paul Bremer had in mind when releasing Order 81.

To rule out last misunderstandings, Order 81 is enforcable law in Iraq. So all the life science companies can just go to the Iraq patent office, if they dare to go from Baghdad Airport to the Green Zone, and file patents on seeds. Of course the filing process consists of 'collecting a fee'. A fee that is next to nothing for a global corporation but might well ruin a small farmer.

The Coalition Provisional Authority does not seem to have a problem with putting the agricultural structures, hence the feeding of Iraq, at stake for future profits of a handful of corporations ... Hey, where to buy stock? ...and why has this issue been widely ignored by our media?

(via Strausberger, Freitag, mindfully.org, grain.org)

Pride & Prejudice · 4.12.05

Pride & Prejudice is a girl's movie. There is no Kung Fu, no firearms, no drug trafficking nor fast cars involved whatsoever. Not even a proper duell. Yet, in this movie they speak with this certain accent. An accent I always try to immitate, I dare say. Furthermore you can experience the neatest duck ponds in the evening sun ever. Now you may say "been there, done that, bought the t-shirt, thank you". Still, go with your beloved, hold her hands and see Donald Sutherland, whom you might know from Dr. Terror's House of Horrors already.

(picture: RetroPosterShop)

Experts Warn (Recycled Content) · 3.12.05

The google experts feature, recently published in German and heavily used at Kantel's, does in fact work in English as well: