• SweetFM – switches seamlessly between Last.fm and iTunes. Tune to any station and you can control Last.fm with SweetFM's interface – stop the stream and you can use it as an iTunes controller!
• killer spiele werte. zur komplexität einer verbotsdebatte und ihres spielgegenstandes – allgemein geht es um das thema der gewalthaltigen computerspiele (oder, wie es so gerne heisst, “killerspiele”), den kulturhistorische kontext, in dem man die moral-panic debatte sehen muss, zensur und werte, medienwirkungsforschung und die rechtliche situation in deutschland.
• Fauna – Very clean theme for wordpress…
• The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide To AppleScript –
• Karmetasploit – KARMA + Metasploit 3 == Karmetasploit

• Cucumber – lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid – all rolled into one format.
• ClueMapper – is a web-based application for managing software and software-based consulting projects. Currently it uses Trac to handle individual projects but adds the ability to create new trac instances, svn configurations, etc.
• Sequential 2 – is an image viewer for Mac OS X. It was originally designed for opening a folder of images and displaying them in order. It works well for viewing comics and manga.
• Mac als Mail-Server und Spamfilter –
• Bringing up baby bilingually | Twice blessed | The Economist –
• Telehouse to Heat Homes at Docklands – Datecenter excess heat used in nearby homes and offices…
• Testing SMTP servers with SWAKS – The swaks package contains a tool which allows you to watch an SMTP conversation, feeding it pretty flexible commands.
• Green-IT – BITKOM – Massig Material zu Green IT

• qlcolorcode – A Quick Look plugin for source code with syntax highlighting
• Checkfilenames – a little perl script to find file names that are longer than a certain number of characters. Very handy…
• Wissenswerkstatt | Ist die Wikipedia zitierfähig? » Der Umgang mit wissenschaftlichen Quellen –
• corkscrew – Corkscrew is a tool for tunneling SSH through HTTP proxies.
• WinMerge – is an Open Source (GPL) visual text file differencing and merging tool for Windows. It is highly useful for determining what has changed between project versions, and then merging changes between versions.
• Small Basic – is a project that's aimed at bringing "fun" back to programming. By providing a small and easy to learn programming language in a friendly and inviting development environment, Small Basic makes programming a breeze. Ideal for kids and adults alike, Small Basic helps beginners take the first step into the wonderful world of programming.
• Helvetica and Alternatives to Helvetica –
• SQLite Tutorial – This article explores the power and simplicity of sqlite3, starting with common commands and triggers.
• JuicePhone – is a Mac application that extracts your iTunes iPhone/iPod touch backups and puts the extracted backup into a chosen folder, which represents the device’s home folder.
• Google SketchUp – Mit Google SketchUp können Sie 3D-Modelle erstellen, ändern und mit anderen gemeinsam verwenden. Und das Programm ist einfacher zu erlernen, als andere 3D Modellierprogramme
• Communote – Hosted Twitter-Clone, targeted at professional users… Maybe worth a look…
• Introducing Prologue – Turning WordPress into some kind of internal Twitter with comments. Interesting…
• MacRuby – is a version of Ruby 1.9, ported to run directly on top of Mac OS X core technologies such as the Objective-C common runtime and garbage collector, and the CoreFoundation framework.
• macam – is a driver for USB webcams on Mac OS X. It allows hundreds of USB webcams to be used by many Mac OS X video-aware applications.
• How to make a presentation with Latex – Using the Beamer package for presentations
• seam-carving-gui – A GUI for Content Aware Image Resizing (Retargeting, Seam Carving). Binaries available for OS X and Windows.
• Kuchen 2.0 oder "5 Minuten Schoko-Kuchen" –
• ISS Now – Utterly amazing live tracking of the ISS in orbit…

• Dead Man's Switch – Shit happens. Sometimes, it happens to you. If it does happen, you might wish there was something you had told the people around you. How you feel, what you regret, where the money is stashed. For this, you need a dead man's switch.
• Textverarbeitungen: Dumm und Ineffizient. – Ein Textverarbeitungsprogramm ist ein dummes und äußerst ine?ektives Werkzeug, um Texte für die Kommunikation mit anderen aufzubereiten. Das ist die Behauptung, die ich im Folgenden darlegen werde.
• iSyncIt – is a small menu bar application that allows you to sync your devices more easily and quickly than just using iSync alone. iSyncIt has the ability to automatically turn your bluetooth on and off, saving you power if you are using a laptop. It also has a built in scheduler to allow you to set up automatic syncing of your devices.
• History of the browser user-agent string – Essential reading…
• A re-introduction to JavaScript –
• Snarl – is a notification system for Windows. It displays notifications on-screen for applications which support it. Heavily inspired by growl.
• SendEmail – is a lightweight, command line SMTP email client. If you have the need to send email from a command line, this free program is perfect: simple to use and feature rich. It was designed to be used in bash scripts, batch files, Perl programs and web sites, but is quite adaptable and will likely meet your requirements.
• Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet? – NO
• Git Guide – This page will document git usage making use of newer concepts introduced in git 1.5
• EXIT MUNDI – , a collection of end of world scenarios

• 8 Powerful Features of Safari That Few People Know About – I love the Notetaking Tip…
• Dockdrop – is a Mac OS X application that lets you share files fast.
• The iPhone SDK: APIs Apple Didn’t Want You to Know About –
• The Good Friday Experiment – The goal was to see if in religiously predisposed subjects, psilocybin (the active principle in psilocybin mushrooms) would act as reliable entheogen.
• Punk 1.1 – Very sleek IMDB-Widget
• Google Visualization API – lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations
• Die Kunst des Faltens – Die Kunst einen Milchkarton zu falten.
• Photo Grabbr – Download Photos or whole Albums from Flickr
• Twitterholic – WE R IN UR TWTTR PAGES, READN UR STATZ
• UI-patterns.com – Design Patterns sorted by areas of websites.
• The 21 Steps by Charles Cumming – Utterly brilliant story told by Google-Maps Views…

• 100 Weird Facts About the Human Body –
• The Red Baron Screensaver – is a 3D OpenGL Mac OS X screensaver showing the Red Baron flying around in his Foker DR-1 tri-plane.
• Mtp Target – is a free (as freedom and as free beer) multi-players online action game working on Windows, GNU/Linux and Mac where you fight with and against players. It is a mix of action, dexterity and strategy game. After rolling down a giant ramp, you must delic
• Down for everyone or just me? – Some kind of offsite visual ping to a site of your choice.
• From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems – Why we care about file systems and why they matter to you.
• Justincaseidie.com – in just a few clicks, you can save a message that will only be sent to its intended recipient if you die. Well…almost. It will actually only be sent if you fail to log back in to the system within the timeframe that you set…
• electric sheep – is a free, open source screen saver run by thousands of people all over the world.
• IRCCat – does 2 things: 1. Listens on a specific ip:port and writes incoming data to an IRC channel. 2. Hands off commands issued on irc to a handler program (eg: shell script) and responds to irc with the output of the handler script.
• googleDrive – Drive a tiny yellow car around your favourite city on google maps…

Als inoffiziellen sechsten Punkt gibt der Macher der Liste noch Health an.

Diese Fähigkeiten, liebe Kinder, werden euch im echten Leben nach der Schule vermutlich ein ganzes Stück weiterhelfen.

(via: 43 Folders)

Website zum Video.

Ob das alles so kommt sei mal dahingestellt, aber interessant ist es auf jeden Fall.

(via: Nerdcore)

(via: Michael Heilemanns Flickr-Stream)

Gar keine schlechte Idee Dinge in den Weltraum zu kriegen, ein mördergroßer Ring in der Wüste mit angeflanschter Rampe…

The satellite, encased in an aerodynamic, cone-shaped shell that would protect it from the intense heat of launch, would be attached to a sled designed to respond to the forces from the superconducting magnets. When the sled had been accelerated to its top speed of 10 kilometres per second, laser and pyrotechnic devices would be used to separate the cone from the sled. Then, the cone would skid into a side tunnel, losing some speed due to friction with the tunnel’s walls. The tunnel would direct the cone to a ramp angled at 30° to the horizon, where the cone would launch towards space at about 8 kilometres per second, or more than 23 times the speed of sound. A rocket at the back end of the cone would be used to adjust its trajectory and place it in a proper orbit.

Ich persönlich finde ja immer noch ein Aufzug an einem 35.786 Kilometer langen Kabel wäre eine der großartigsten Sachen die die Menschheit schaffen könnte. Der wäre allerdings sicher etwas langsamer, was dem ganzen Unterfangen irgendwie den Space Cowboy Thrill nehmen würde…

Schade ist bei der Sache eigentlich nur, dass die USA den Rest der Welt nicht mitspielen lassen wollen.

(via: bldgblog)