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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.

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.

Great speech of Guy Kawasaki.

Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead …)

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Really useful and nicely designed website to convert between different units.

To get from here as WMS service.

Show a “timeline” for words appearing in books. Interesting.

History of search results. Interesting.

High-resolution aerial photos taken over Brisbane last week have revealed the scale of devastation across dozens of suburbs and tens of thousands of homes and businesses.