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Konsument oder Urheberrechtsverbrecher?, ein Artikel von Franz Schmidbauer, Richter am Landesgericht Salzburg, ist sehr zu empfehlen.

"[...] Wenn diese Entwicklung in diesem Tempo weitergeht, müssen wir in Kürze damit rechnen, dass bei Autokontrollen auch der MP3-Player und der USB-Stick kontrolliert werden, ob sich darauf allenfalls unlizensierte Musik befindet. Auch könnte es soweit kommen, dass das Abspielgerät zu Hause erst einen Ton von sich gibt, nachdem es in einer Datenbank im Internet nachgefragt hat, ob der User berechtigt ist dazu. Die technischen Voraussetzungen dafür sind schon geschaffen und auch in den diversen Geräten schon integriert, aber man könnte das Ganze vielleicht noch an einen Fingerprint koppeln und Missbräuche gleich online der Verwertungsgesellschaft melden. Der gläserne Hörer lässt grüßen! [...]"

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Something great fun: Build your own hero with the HeroMachine

Learn new vocabulary and end world hunger by doing so!

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So it's 1st of May, you are already done singing The Internationale, and now wondering what to do?
Simple, visit these 3 sites:
The Cutest
The Fairest
The Funniest

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Great site:
Songs To Wear Pants To
People can submit ideas for songs, which Andrew will then create, e.g.

Instructions:
Rap about how great tetris is with the tetris theme song in the background. You can add in percussion if you want.

or

Instructions:
I think you should write a song about a man ordering a burrito and being extremely intimidated by the size of it. The music should be Celtic techno, or any other blend of two genres that would not be caught eating a burrito together.

(both of those resulted in actual songs, which you can download for free! (the last link has nothing to do with "Songs To Wear Pants To", but you might want to check it out anyways...)

There is a new service available from Google:
Google TiSP (free in-home wireless broadband service)

Say goodbye to Microsoft. Now.
Install Debian from a running MS Windows. Love the idea

This has been lying around on my harddisk for quite some time, but now I'm going to post it here, 'cause my little sister will have a BIG laugh
Women, Know Your Limits
on YouTube
local Mirror (in FLV-format)

Esther Schindler wrote an article about
the 5 most important things one should know about fighting spam, mentioning my humble self (on page 2). /me happy

[Edit]
Now that article has been featured on Slashdot IT!
(but nobody there commented on my insightful views and enlightening words.

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Great instructions for building your own WLAN-Antenna:
http://www.pc-magazin.de/praxis/cm/themenseiten/wlan/wlan_antenne_selberbauen/
http://www.in-ulm.de/dienste/connectivity/funk/funk-antenne1/
http://www.ping.de/aktiv/wavelan/wavelan_antennenbau_yagi.html
(all in German)

One of the most useful Wikipedia-pages:
List of films by gory death scene
(another fun one is Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.)

As you can clearly see on Google Maps, a giant insect is attacking Germany.