Old picks

• ... "Mit Verwunderung und mit betroffener Verwunderung habe ich und werden viele Menschen draußen zur Kenntnis genommen haben, daß hier eine Anti-Rassismus-Hotline, ein heißer Draht, nach wie vor gilt ja bei uns der Artikel 8 unserer Bundesverfassung, und hier ist die deutsche Sprache die Staatssprache, also ein heißer Draht eingerichtet werden sollte." ...
  - Aus der Rede des FPÖ Abgeordneten zum steirischen Landtag Paul Tremmel, 16.11.99. [Volltext]

• Abgeordneter Dr. OFNER (F) bemerkte, er habe selbst einmal an den Grundsatz "Therapie statt Strafe" geglaubt, die Praxis habe ihn aber eines Besseren belehrt. ...
  "Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Realität müsse man zur Kenntnis nehmen, dass nur Repressionsmassnahmen bei der Bekämpfung der Drogenkriminalität greifen."
  - PARLAMENTSKORRESPONDENZ/GR/02.04.1997/Nr. 194 Psychotropen-Übereinkommen: Grundsatz "Therapie statt Strafe". Der nächste Feschist Krüger denkt ja gerade wieder laut darüber nach, ändert seine Meinung von Woche zu Woche (Quelle Falter 2000)

• "(Abg. Koppler: Gib eine Ruh’!)"
  Sondersitzung des Nationalrates zum "Fall Omofuma"
  - Stenographisches Protokoll zur 168. Sitzung des Nationalrates der Republik Österreich, 10. Mai 1999

  Kleiner geschichtlicher Exkurs:
  Der Held dieser Geschichte wurde von der FPÖ als Kanzlermacher umworben. "Unser bester Mann in der Regierung" wurde zwei mal geäußert. Gegenüber Löschnak und dann Schlögl. Schlögl wurde auch dann fast Parteivorsitzender (und damit auch der nächste Kanzler) wenn nicht die Wiener SPÖ Jugend im letzten Augenblick gegen ihn mobilisierte. Wenn er in dieser Sitzung seinen Rücktritt angeboten hätte, wäre er es auch sicher geworden. (Quelle Falter, letzte Februar Woche 2000)

• "As the Chinese say, 1001 words is worth more than a picture." - John McCarthy

• "you notice the absurd lack of capitalization in my writing. that is because i am a programmer and not an english teacher." - adie@inetworld.com (David Adie - Code Mill) from acad newsletter #17 One of my all-time favourites

• Die schönsten Dialogboxen bei SWR3.

• "The Cult of Seriousness decreed that everyone had to keep their source code hidden, because other people might laugh at how bad our code is, and make us fix it. Or worse, someone might steal our bad code and make it better. Then we would be out of business, and Life is Serious Business. A peek at the source code for Unix is obviously worth $100,000, because we can get that much for it. Programming for the fun of it? Get real!"
  - Larry Wall about Open Source in "Perl, the first postmodern computer language"

• However, the important thing to remember for the moment, is: when you move through space you are compelled to move through time but, when you move through time (which of course you are always doing) you do not have to move through space.
  When a mass is present in the above space-time it distorts it so that whilst it remains true that travelling through space causes you to travel through time, travelling through time now causes you to move (accelerate) through space. In other words just by existing, you are compelled to move through space - this is gravity.
  - What causes Gravity? by Martin Hogbin, from the [Relativity FAQ]
  I tried to come up with such a simple explanation of the geometric properties of gravity (in contrast to a force) by myself for quite a time, but this is perfect. Current Quantum Field Theory should also use more such "simple geometric" than than "energetic" terms. But I may be wrong.

• "the fifth postulate about platonic solids, atomism and how geometry deals with the term "infinite" (in german - for users of netscape 4.6 with java and javascript enabled)
  - bei gernot. Endlich einmal ein paar architektonische Grundlagen

• "Seit einigen Jahren beunruhigt mich der unübersehbare Niedergang der intellektuellen Standards in bestimmten Kreisen der amerikanischen Geisteswissenschaften."
  - Die Sokal Affäre in deutscher Übersetzung. Eine schöne Kritik der "Postmoderne", im speziellen der französischen Poststrukturalisten.

• "The essay you have probably just seen is completely meaningless and was randomly generated by the Postmodernism Generator. To generate another essay, follow this link."
  -The Postmodernism Generator by Andrew C. Bulhak, using the Dada Engine, a system for generating random text from recursive grammars.

• a cool sex site

• "As most of you are aware, congress has recently passed as law to allow copyright to be applied to individual works of fire, both in terms of actual fires and in terms of manufactured oxidation potential like matches and lighters."
  - Fire, Work With Me by L. Fitzgerald Sjöberg.

• "In view of the terrible damage freely circulated ideas can do to a society, and particularly to innocent children, I beg my government to works all thoughts which might be dangerous. I want the help of our elected leaders in bringing my thoughts into harmony with their own and thus into harmony with the thoughts of those who elected them. That is democracy."
  -Vintage Vonnegut

• HTCPCP/1.0: Enough? Say WHEN.
  - RFC 2324 by Larry Masinter , see also: emacs package to submit a BREW request to an RFC2324-compliant coffee

• "So, nu muss ich aber auch aufhören, Werbung fängt an"
  [de.alt.fan.konsumterror] Boese Werbung

• "I have Win95, but I hate it. Please, never give LParser a Graphical User Interface. I like programs that aren't user friendly, because to me, user friendly is idiot friendly." was found here, in a feedback page for a nice commandline utility which would cry for a GUI.
• Autodesk founder John Walker: "Microsoft at Apogee" about ActiveX: ...But this is complete bullshit, and it will never work, at least not very well or for very long. Why? Because the underlying architecture lacks even the most rudimentary security and configuration control mechanisms required for a distributed system of such complexity...
• "Professors often come from an earlier school before significant thought had gone into the problem of writing readable and understandable code. Too early an exposure to the BASIC language or to `machine language' can cause irreversable brain damage. Sufferers are constantly fighting the `ghosts' of dead machines and compilers; their programs show thick accents from the `old country' of dead computer languages." - Garbage In/Garbage Out: When Bad Programs Happen to Good People" Henry Baker
• "alle Tage sind gleich lang aber nicht alle Tage sind gleich breit" - Graf Hadik
• "Wissen Sie was schlimm ist? Daß heute die Frauen wieder Sexualobjekte geworden sind.
  ...
  Mich erinnern die Girls von heute an die 50er Jahre, als ich ein Teenager war. Das war eine schreckliche Zeit. Aber nicht der Konservatismus war das Schlimmste, nicht die Kommunistenhatz und nicht die Atombombenexperimente, sondern die Tatsache, daß alle Frauen Girls waren. Dieselben Girls haben sich in den 60er Jahren dann emanzipiert, sind erwachsen geworden, haben sich berfreit, die BH's abgeschafft und uns Männer wie Brüder behandelt, nicht wie ihre Herren. Und wir haben uns an sie angeglichen, indem wir uns die Haare wachsen ließen. Auch politisch ist damals etwas weitergegangen. Es gab Hoffnung. ..." - Nick Nolte in Skip, Feb 98.
• my friend gernot stangl finally set up his webpage where you find information about form finding problems: form finding, structural analysis, ...
• Our new xarch random url selector (best of xarch, 20 secs each)
• W's latest graphical web attack. he gets cooler and cooler with the years. Stay on with this, he told me that it runs for at least 30 minutes or so. Though we will NOT get any web design award with more examples like this. Or do we? (aiih, we actually did get one!)
• Larry Walls Irrationalities
• Plottegg: ARCHITEKTUR-ALGORITHMEN in deutsch, riesiges file!
• "It's become clear that the plague called the 8086 architecture has sufficiently entrenched itself that it's not going to go away." John Walker, 1982

  "I have never encountered a machine so hard to understand, one where the most basic decisions in designing a program are made so unnecessarily difficult, where the memory architecture seems deliberately designed to obstruct the programmer, where the instruction set seems contrived to induce the maximum confusion, and where the assembler is so bizarre and baroque that once you've decided what bits you want in memory you can't figure out how to get the assembler to put them there. But I digress."

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