The Sturgeon

Tue, 09 Nov 2004 20:32:09 GMT

Germany's Day of Destiny. Tuesday marks the 15th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, but Nov. 9 had been an important date in German history long before. Since 1848, at least four other significant events took place on that day. [DW-WORLD.DE Top Stories]

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:05:57 GMT

DW-WORLD.DE: The Americans are Coming -- And Wearing Silly Hats. After several years in absentia, foreign visitors -- chief among them Americans -- have made a triumphal return to that annual beer-guzzling, pretzel-eating Autumn rite: Munich's Oktoberfest.

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:04:11 GMT

DW-WORLD.DE: What's on at Europe's Museums. The Flick Collection finally opens, Frankfurt hosts an Yves Klein retrospective and Berlin flexes its artistic muscle.

Mon, 31 May 2004 20:59:05 GMT

Deutsche Welle: Germany's parliament rejected a plan to put the draft of the EU Constitution up for a public referendum, sending a strong message to other countries two weeks before EU leaders are to adopt the treaty.
I don't know exactly what this strong message should be, but I don't think it's a good one. Europe and democracy doesn't seem to match.

Tue, 25 May 2004 15:13:38 GMT

I just read Loretta Napoleonis "Modern Jihad: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks". This is an excellent economic analysis of the Global Terrorism and shows the developing Economy of Terror, that is starting to undermine the regular economy.

Tue, 25 May 2004 14:43:00 GMT

James Lovelock: Nuclear power is the only green solution. "We have no time to experiment with visionary energy sources; civilisation is in imminent danger". Jomes Lovelock is an independent scientist and the creator of the Gaia hypothesis of the Earth as a self-regulating organism.

Tue, 25 May 2004 14:38:11 GMT

The writings of Charles Darwin: "The most complete collection of Darwin's work ever published-with original page numbers, illustrations etc."Lots of links, lots of information. Especially for the poor people who are not allowed to read this in school anymore. Via Kosmonautentraum.

Tue, 25 May 2004 10:47:23 GMT

David Shea: What is RSS/XML/ATOM/Syndication?

Tue, 25 May 2004 10:05:17 GMT

I got some email and comments regarding the german RSS-feeds. I have added some new links and put a permanent link to the list on the right side.

Wed, 19 May 2004 21:32:50 GMT

Curious About Astronmy? Ask an Astronomer. Nicely done astronomy site to ask questions and get answers about space. [Fundsachen]

Wed, 19 May 2004 21:29:57 GMT

New Scientist: First amateur rocket blasts into space. »An amateur rocket called GoFast has made history by becoming the first such rocket to reach 100 kilometres altitude - the official edge of space.
The seven-metre-tall rocket was launched from Nevada's Black Rock Desert on Monday carrying a ham radio avionics package which broadcasted position and altitude data during its ascent.«

Toll Collection that works

Sun, 16 May 2004 21:39:40 GMT

You have propably heard about the desaster with the german Toll Collect system. A consortium lead by Deutsche Telekom and Daimler-Chrysler spend approximately 2 billion Euro to develop a highly sofisticated toll-collection system for heavy goods vehicles that use our Autobahn network. It uses GPS, GPRS, GSM, OBUs and all kinds of other Three Letter Abbreviations. The problem: It does not work.
Now three 18-year old students from Bremen (André Kreis, Tim Gosche and Helge Stobrawe) developed a toll-collection system that is cheap and works. It uses wifi technology. Access points will be installed along the Autobahnen and a special black-box will be installed in every truck. The fee that has to be paid for a truck depends on the number of access points it has passed along it's course. They even got invited to the Toll Collect headquarters in Berlin, but their system will not be used, because "we already spend so much money".

Sun, 16 May 2004 20:59:55 GMT

Fundsachen: The Bibliography of Dendrochronology celebrates 10000 references.

RSS gains ground in Germany

Fri, 14 May 2004 10:24:38 GMT

More and more traditional news media offer their news and articles as RSS-Feeds. Especially in the English-speaking part of the world almost all major news resources can be syndicated using RSS. In Germany the situation is far less comfortable. Most of the major german newspapers e.g. do not offer their services via RSS. But the situation is improving. A growing number of news sources have started providing RSS-Feeds, some even in different languages. Unfortunately the RSS-Feeds are often very well hidden. I have compiled a list of german news media with RSS-Feeds. Deutsche Welle has feeds in different languages, the others are in german.

Die Zeit (weekly newspaper)
Financial Times Deutschland (daily newspaper)
Spiegel (weekly magazine)
Stern (weekly magazine)
heise (computer magazine publisher)
PC-Welt (monthly magazine)
Presseportal (news agency)
Tagesschau (newscast)
N24 (news network)
Deutsche Welle (broadcast station)

If anyone has more, please keep me informed.

Thu, 13 May 2004 18:26:19 GMT

Search Engine Watch: »Google has added new mailing list creation functionality to its Google Groups service, giving it a capability that competes directly with the Yahoo Groups service.«

Wed, 12 May 2004 21:33:56 GMT

German president Johannes Rau: »Egoism, greed and a demanding mentality among parts of the so-called elite weaken trust in the institutions, when their representatives apparently lose all standards«

Wed, 12 May 2004 21:07:32 GMT

SHELDUS (Spatial Hazard Events and Losses Database for the United States) »is a county-level hazard data set for the U.S. for 18 different natural hazard events types such thunderstorms, hurricanes, floods, wildfires, and tornados. The database covers the period from 1960-2000.«

Tue, 11 May 2004 22:28:46 GMT

science.gov is an excellent search engine for scientific information.