Chaos Computer Club ruft zur Demonstration “Freiheit statt Angst” auf, am 11. September 2010 in Berlin.

Social Steganography: Learning to Hide in Plain Sight, by danah boyd.

What’s in your Simplenote?, I use Simplenote together with nb and mNote. I keep there: a to-do list, some mail templates/boilerplate, a few addresses, and a list of movies I saw.

Is the Gamma function misdefined?, Hadamard versus Euler – Who found the better Gamma function?

Elementary Number Theory: Primes, Congruences, and Secrets, by William Stein. Full text available online. Includes SAGE examples.

Fermat’s Last Theorem: The TV Documentary, by Simon Singh. Full version at Google Video.

Crocheting the Lorenz manifold, by Hinke Osinga and Bernd Krauskopf. With pictures.

sshuttle, where transparent proxy meets VPN meets ssh. Looks promising. TCP/IPv4 only, and you just need python on the server side.

Free42 is a re-implementation of the HP-42S calculator and the HP-82240 printer. It is a complete rewrite, and doesn’t use any HP code.

How can I get setuid shell scripts to work?, and why you don’t.

The Palettenpavillon, by Matthias Loebermann, is a structure made entirely from shipping pallets, ground anchors, and tie rods.

Dowling Duncan redesign the US bank notes, worth a look.

Manifesto for Half-Arsed Agile Software Development

Icons of the Web, a map of 288945 favicons.

Tron-a-Sutra, NSFW.

Christoph Schlingensief ist tot.

Solutions to three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations for incompressible fluids, by Jorma Jormakka. Electon. J. Diff. Equ. Vol 2010(2010), No. 93, pp. 1-14. (PDF). “The article proves the Statement D in the official problem statement of the Clay Math. Institute.” He wrote me: “If somebody poses a million dollar problem, he should first think that he has posed the problem correctly. I have answered the problem that was asked, and I think what was asked was indeed what they were wanting to ask. They did not know that an existing theorem was wrong.” (background)

Doug Engelbart and Ted Nelson over at Howard Rheingold, video.

ferm is a tool to maintain complex iptables firewalls, without having the trouble to rewrite the complex rules over and over again. Has a pf-like syntax.

Tcpcrypt is a protocol that attempts to encrypt (almost) all of your network traffic.

mhthread, sort an MH folder into ‘threaded’ order.

The World’s Population by Latitude and Longitude

What different sorting algorithms sound like

Doramad Radioactive Toothpaste

Carlton’s Mac Mail

A Proof That P Is Not Equal To NP?, Vinay Deolalikar of HP Labs says yes. more and more….

God’s Number is 20, that is, the amount of moves you need to solve any Rubik’s Cube constellation.

Life without a CA, worth thinking about. Also, also (PDF).

Xv6, a simple Unix-like teaching operating system. Fits in a single head and is well readable.

reconnect.pl, an irssi script to really reconnect a server. “/reconnect -full all” also works. I can’t believe this took me five years to find.

noam is a shell scripting tool, with a similar usage pattern to that of awk but using context-free grammars.

Constraining Types with Regular Expressions, nice.

How To Have Sex At Work and How To Poop At Work.

The Pac-Man Dossier, all about Pac-Man.

All my friends are dead

Got some time to kill

Chaos Computer Club macht Hausfassade zum überdimensionalen Bildschirm, Einweihung am 10. August.

Gumstix Overo, a tiny 17mm by 58mm ARM board running Linux. (e.g. for a wearable.)

mfsBSD, finally a sane way to install FreeBSD (with ZFS root too).

032c archive with full texts of all issues but the latest. Awesome.

Das Linux Anwenderhandbuch und Leitfaden für die Systemverwaltung, 7. Auflage (1997) und PDF, 5. Auflage. Das waren noch Zeiten.

125-piece puzzle in 6 different metals with hidden “Golden Gun”

Wikipedia’s Lamest Edit Wars

Amazing Amazon Box (YouTube)

Rotated Google

Bookshelf Porn