Tag: Link Dump

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It’s again time for a massive link-dump. It’s a bit difficult to navigate around if a browser window has thirty-two tabs in it and time doesn’t allow to check them regullary. So, there we go.

Cool Stuff:

• Yogurt Making Illustrated shows you how to produce yogurt on your own in a few hours
• PortableApps.com has produced a convenient package of applications which are able to run directly off an USB memory stick or other portable memory devices (Win only)
• The Four Mile Island Ice Box is a non-electric refridgerator build by someone to freeze in winter and stay cool all summer
• A Thermite Reaction is something I’d really to try out sometime
• The Wookieepedia is a great ressource for any Star Wars fan and a good read for all other fiction-fans
• The Science section of RMCybernetics has quite some articles around cool science, physics, high voltage, etc. stuff
• MIT is offering all their Physics lessions as downloadable videos for everyone, for free
• MIT OpenCourseware offers even more education ressources from the MIT
• Some Myths Busted around LED tells what advantages and disadvantages LED lighting really has
• C64s.com offers you many of those old C64 classic games as online playing experience, nostalgy alert
• Wikimapia is a Wiki for Google Maps where everyone can mark places and spots and give comments or insight, my personal take on Chernobyl reactor tourism
• AOJ Outdoors Tip #50 describes an easy and nontoxic way to get rid of annoying yellow jackets

Personal Development:

• Mycoted attempts to be a central repository for innovation, ideas and problem-solving
• How to Take Perfect Lecture Notes is pretty self-explanatory
• Tricks to Improve Your Memory lists some common problems with forgetfulness and suggestions on how to avoid them
• Geek’s guide to working out has some tips on how to physically work out and get into better shape
• Geek to Live, The Usable Home has tips on how to organize your after-work-life at home for more efficiency

Management/Work:

• Bare Bones Project Hacks lists some project basics and a few helpful tips
• Organizing the daily workflow is a cruical activity for everyone working on something
  • Five-Minute-Motivators keep your head above water all day long
  • Five-Minute-Organizer helps you order your goals, time and schedule
  • [Five-Minute-Flowcharts](http://successbeginstoday.org/wordpress/2006/05/five-minute-flowchart/ "Success Begins Today – Five Minute Flowchart") can also help a bit to visualize workflows
  • The Five-Year-Personal-Development-Plan is another little pointer to think about
• 10 more things in 360 days has tips on how to be successful in offering freelancer services
• Geek to Live: Take great notes lists some methods on how to take notes effectively, be it for meetings or elsewhere
• Finding flow in everyday life is not an easy task, look there for some tips
• The Art of Work discusses also some topics and reviews a book around flow

Computer Technology:

• Altiris Software Virtualization Solution allows you to try out software on your computer without causing real changes to HDD, OS and any other settings
• Reducing your memory usage in Firefox by avoiding leaking extensions and tweaking some settings
• [10 things every Microsoft Word user should know](http://generaldisarray.wordpress.com/2006/04/14/ten-things-every-microsoft-word-user-should-know/ "General Disarrangement: Ten things every Microsoft Word user should know"), really
• CSS Filters has a comparison table on what browser supports which CSS features and constructs, useful for web developers and designers Update 2017-08-20: broken, see next items for alternatives
• Update 2017-08-20 Can I use? allows to search for browser capabilities. You enter a certain HTML/CSS/… construct and it shows you which browsers support it to which extend.
• Update 2017-08-20 CSS Tricks – filters lists current filters defined by CSS.
• Update 2017-08-20 CSS3 Intro, Examples, Resources contains useful information to get started with CSS.
• 24 ways has also some tricks and tips for web developers, Javascript artists and CSS designers

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• Belphegor comic from Mookie’s Journal,
  • Hack its try to hack your way through
  • independend MP3 Stream list from Lifehacker

Had you ever have a bad feeling about genetically modified food and wanted to know more? Well, there is not that much research data available, because research is mostly suppressed by Biotech companies.

Anyway, I found this half-official publication.

Want to know what the US really wants to do in our world? What really happened in Afghanistan and Iraq? At John Pilgers page the work of this Australian journalist and military correspondent reveals some dark corners in the American leadership.