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

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.

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

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…

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.

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!

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

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.

… 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

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( 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.

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

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 “,”

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.

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Great speech of Guy Kawasaki.