RaSchi’s Valhalla

It seems that someone cut a subtantial deal in EVE Online, a massive multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) with a deep space discovery/settlement storyline.

I really like Google Earth. And I think there are numerous ways to create useful applications based on it. But maybe I have to put the quality of the service into perspective. Using this piece of information from Google Analytics in a navigation system certainly would screw up your appointment in Wil.

If I were on South Park, I’d probably look a little like this:
[via Parcival]

Robert from BasicThinking has an ingenious idea (in German). It’s almost like a social science experiment. It works like this:
Everyday a volunteer wire transfers a predefined sum of money into a notary account. The amount is increased every day. Robert has the choice to directly wire the money back to the donor. Or to keep […]

Good thing we have the German news from Tagesschau.de. Otherwise we wouldn’t know that terrorists also use Microsoft Windows. In their article Experte: ”Auch Terroristen arbeiten mit Windows” (sorry, only in German) a terrorism and security expert is interviewed. Among other things, he explains that even if we could switch off the internet easily, terrorists […]

In their Google Apps for Your Domain program Google offers their stable applications for a hosting service. What was previously available for GMail (a.k.a. GoogleMail) is now being extended to include the calendar and GoogleTalk as well. It’s not so much a surprise, it has been predicted before (and probably also in many other postings […]

Expecting a Candian equivalent to the U.S. Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA), Michale Geist has started an initiative called 30 Days of DRM, in which he points out open issues with DRM legislation, one aspect per day. Dr. Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa.
So far, […]

It seems as if a research team at Shandong University in China Institute for Applied Information Processing and Communications has found a way to break the SHA-1 hasing algorithm. The team has published a paper describing collision searches on SHA-1 hashes at the Crpyto 2006 conference and a very short slideshow on the results can […]

Over the weekend, I have played a little with the freenigma service. I have a couple of contacts now with whom I can send and receive encrypted GoogleMails. In general, I must say I like the tool, but it still has some limitations. Well, it’s a beta… Here’s a brief summary of my impressions:
Advantages:

simple, smooth […]

I might be hooked. While browsing through the widgets at WidgetBox I stumbled upon a Sudoku widget. Since I’ve been watching some people solve these riddles on the commuter bus more and more often, I thought I might give it a try and hit the “Try Out Widget” button.
And not without a little bit of […]