Archive for December, 2007

Merry X-mas

Since I won’t be around(within the intarweb, that is) for Christmas this year, Merry Christmas to everybody !

The best projects from Adobe Design Contest.
Digital Illustration: Winner

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Mapping out routes for its drivers, drastically reducing the number of left-hand turns they make helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced CO2 emissions by 31,000 metric tons.
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SZ: Die sinnloseste Erfindung der Welt

Forscher in Regensburg haben einen Adventskalender gebastelt, der eine Milliarde Mal kleiner ist als normale Kalender.

»Rekordjäger aufgepasst! Die besinnlichste Zeit des Jahres ist zum Abschuss freigegeben, rückt an …«

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The least used page on microsoft.com

a guide no one has or should ever use.
»This article explains how to remove the Linux operating system from your computer and install Windows XP. This article assumes that Linux is already installed on your computer’s hard disk, that Linux native and Linux swap partitions are in use (which are incompatible with Windows XP), and [...]

“Climate disaster” has received the annual honor reserved for the term that has captured the spirit or dominated the headlines and public discussion this year.
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New York

I just found a nice site called “New York City Daily Photo”, the concept of one photo per day isn’t the newest one, but still there are some nice photos on there. The pics reflect the diversity and contrast of impressions that you get when you walk through NYC pretty good. Every photo gets a [...]

For better or worse, these are 70 of the ideas that helped make 2007 what it was.

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Google Charts API

I can’t really utilize it right now, but this seems as it could come in quite handy.
This new API lets you dynamically create all kinds of charts (Line, Bar, Pie charts, …)

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