Fancy new „slimline“ buttons seem to take over the current taste for graphically expressing all kinds of stuff: steal these buttons.

TWiki is a very flexible wiki system and many people have projects running integrating it with almost anything. Now Jason Trommeter has created a Movable Type plug-in for TWiki.

On the other hand, I certainly do NOT agree with his political views.

de:bug, a german magazine on electronic lifestyle – has published an article on the upcoming Chaos Communication Camp.

Whoosh. The new Camp teasers have arrived. Select the pictures for higher resolutions.

For those like to prefer to read documentation in a web browser, manserver might be a helpful little tool. It is a simple CGI that you can install on your UNIX system to read display command line „man“ pages in HTML. Added benefit: hyperlinked manual pages.

There is an additional notes on how to customize the script for Mac OS X at Mac OS X Hints.

Frank reports on a cool new standard called HomePlug that does Ethernet over power.

NASA ISS Science Officer Ed Lu of the International Space Station is maintaining a diary on the NASA web site. He shares his views from above in a more direct way than press releases ever will.

We don‘t have a real kitchen up here, but we do have a kitchen table. You might wonder of what use a table is if you can‘t set anything down on it, but we have bungee straps and Velcro on the tabletop so you can keep your food containers, spoon, napkins, etc. from floating away.

Hope he is going to share his experience with the specially modified toilets some day.

The Fink project is one of the more popular and useful package porting projects bringing the wealth of UNIX tools to Mac OS X. They now provide a RSS 1.0 feed for updates on their stable tree and the unstable tree of their package database.

1. Mac OS X: Make the AddressBook autodetect your Bluetooth phone
2.  Mac OS X:Send SMS messages to mobile phones from iChat
3.  Internet: Messaging over IPv6 Destination Options
4.  Algorithms: LZW Data Compression (it‘s free now!)
5.  Processors: History of PowerPC architecture
6.  Internet: Distributed Reflection Denial of Service (DRDoS)
7.  Programming: Introduction to Reverse Engineering Software

Did you know that? If you didn‘t, this web site tells you all about it [via Ben].