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Convert Almost Anything

Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Cool tool which enables one to convert almost anything, SVG to image, Image to SVG, Music formats, …. Great!

Upload Your Screenshot

Friday, February 1st, 2013

Looking for a place to upload a screenshot in order to share it within a forum? And no interest in creating a (free) account? Or downloading a software to achieve it? Here is a simple website (in german) which does it.

TED: Ernesto Sirolli: Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!

Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
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Great, passionate talk, with lots of wisdom, fun parts, a clear message. Bravo. Really, really fascinating to watch!

UNEP’s budget

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Yep, pretty small, if one compares it to other UN agencies… This shows what domain is important, and which one not. Development scores top, environment (before) last…

TED: Nancy Duarte on How to Change the World

Friday, August 31st, 2012

Great talk about what makes a good story, and how to present it in a way that attracts peoples’ attention. And thus, how to get your ideas out there, which could change the world. Really interesting, fascinating talk with insights into Jobs’ and M.L. King’s speeches.

New Permaculture Site

Thursday, August 16th, 2012


I’ve created a new site, though in german, about permaculture. It’s still a bit under development, but especially the blog part gets constant updates concerning all subjects related to permaculture!

Land Grab

Monday, June 25th, 2012

Interesting source, and nice presentation as well as infographic on land grabbing.

Software Alternatives

Monday, June 25th, 2012

Very interesting website, where one can search for alternatives for specific software products. Type in ArcGIS, and one gets a full load of alternative software packages.

Rio+20: “May You One Day Forgive Us”

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

… something like this Ban said to a group of young people. “For too long we have we have behaved as though we could indefinitely burn and consume our way to prosperity,” Ban told delegates at the UN’s Rio+20 Conference on Sustainable Development today. “Now is the time to rise beyond narrow national interest. It is time to act with a broader, long-term vision. We are running out of time.” via

Write Together Online

Thursday, June 21st, 2012

MixedInk‘s collaborative writing platform allows groups of any size to weave their best ideas and language into a single text. Cutting-edge government agencies, news organizations, advocacy groups, and businesses use MixedInk to gather meaningful input and give their communities a voice.

Linux: Count the Number of Lines

Monday, June 4th, 2012

( find ./ -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 cat ) | wc -l

Count’s the number of lines in any PHP files of a directory and it’s subdirectories. Via.

Only Few Brands

Friday, April 27th, 2012

Thinking buying somebody else’s stuff? A large part of our daily products goes back to only a few companies.

Animated Graph: How-to

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

In order to use the “dygraphs“, do the following:

  1. Prepare your values (for example, divide by 1.000.000; add “Date” to the right field, concatenate(Field-with-year,”-01-01″))
  2. Copy from Mac to Windows, insert into Excel, change date again to right format
  3. Save as CSV
  4. Replace “;” with “,”

TED: Diana Nyad: Extreme swimming with the world’s most dangerous jellyfish – Diana Nyad

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
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Animierte Infografiken zur Schuldenkrise

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012
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SVG and Environmental Statistics

Monday, January 16th, 2012

I’ve build a neat SVG application. It uses data (via a direct database connection) from the UNEP Environmental Data Explorer (ex-GEO Data Portal). Lots of possibilities to play around with the data, for each variable some 40.000 data points.

The Story of Stuff

Thursday, January 5th, 2012

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PopTech 2008: Saul Griffith on Energy Use

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2012

Which Font Is It?

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Seen a font in use and want to know what it is? Submit an image to WhatTheFont to find the closest matches in our database.

Speech: Guy Kawasaki

Friday, November 18th, 2011

Great speech of Guy Kawasaki.