Telepolis hat ein Interview mit Andreas Buske geführt. Der fällt am Landgericht Hamburg beeindruckend weltfremde Urteile zum Persönlichkeitsrecht in den Medien, insbesondere im Internet. Und er gibt keine Interviews. In diesem Fall distanziere ich mich von diesem Interview und bestreite, es jemals geführt zu haben. Buske: Das bestreite ich ebenfalls. Ich bezweifle allerdings, dass Ihre Read more »
In Germany, a discussion is raging on whether the police should be allowed to search a suspect’s computer by hacking into it (rather than by confiscating it and reading out the hard drive). Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is the chief advocate of this. The youth organisation of the Social Democrats — a party that shares Read more »
While Stefano relishes his Free Software client for Second Life, BoingBoing brings us this beauty: Get a First Life: "Your World. Sorry about that." The website states that "First Life is a 3D analogue world where server lag does not exist", and encourages us to "Go outside — Membership is free". One of the main Read more »
Steven Hilton has drawn up a map of "the epic struggle of Free Software against Microsoft". While I don’t think that the struggle for Free Software is against Microsoft per se, the map sure is fun to look at.
The Sweden-based Bittorrent tracking site The Pirate Bay is apparently looking to buy the independent Principality of Sealand. This micronation is based on a British naval platform in the North Sea, and is currently on sale for 65 mio. pounds. Running its own nation would presumably give the site a degree of reprieve from the Read more »
Heise.de‘s usually excellent Stefan Krempl, who does most of their articles on copyright and patents, has sweetened my Friday afternoon with a minor slip. In an article about various EU folks crying wolf about how the Chinese will eat our lunch if we don’t introduce tight patents on really, really everything (ok, I’m exaggerating, but Read more »
Though I haven’t been forced to use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer for ages, this is still pretty funny: Microsoft(R) Firefox 2007.it’s better now… like seriously…
More on the hardware side of things: Look what I found on YouTube this morning. It’s a little robot that wheels around the room and is steered by, yes, a cockroach. The little critter is walking on what appears to be a pingpong ball, thereby moving the ball; the principle seems to be similar to Read more »
What happens when geeks and football collide? Roughly, this. Michael Aschauer, a Vienna artist, is streaming the World Cup in ASCII via telnet. Here you go: $telnet ascii-wm.net 2006 (via The Register)
With all the somber stuff I blog about, something funny seems to be in order. BoingBoing pointed me to this video of a Yogi teaching a laughing lesson. Absolutely infectious.