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• Home of the Geotag Icon Project
  The Geotag Icon is intended as a web "standard" icon for identifying geotagged content to humans.
• Open Share Icons and Buttons
  The Open Share Icon is designed to help users easily identify shareable content. 100% open, free to use, community-driven goodness.
• Rock Music Quality vs. US Oil Production
  article link: http://www.overthinkingit.com/2008/09/23/the-hubbert-peak-theory-of-rock-or-why-were-all-out-of-good-songs/
• Boston Review — Evgeny Morozov: Edit This Page
  Some might disagree. As long as the information is available online, Wikipedia, they say, will eventually organize it according to the dictates of good judgment. But despite all of the notoriety guidelines clogging the site, judgment is lacking in the world of Wikipedia. There is virtually no sense of relative importance: improving an article about a prominent historical figure is as important as writing the biography of a soap opera character, as long as both are deemed notable. One does not have to be a natural-born elitist to see that relying on this simplistic binary will inevitably keep the focus on the frivolous, which is never in short supply.
• You live, you learn – the PHP way | Reinhold Weber
  Sometimes, reflecting on mistakes from the past – you wish you knew then what you know now. Here are a few of my PHP developer truths, learned the hard way by being young, stubborn and most of the times an arrogant prick, refusing to accept that others may actually know better.
• PHP programmer’s evolution scribble | Reinhold Weber
  The various stages you go through in your [PHP] development career.
• Particletree » PHP Quick Profiler
  we invested some time creating something we’ve called the PHP Quick Profiler—we call it PQP for short. It’s a small tool (think Firebug for PHP) to provide profiling and debugging related information to developers without needing them to add a lot of programmatic overhead to their code. Now, we only need to toggle one config setting to true and our reviewers have access to an automated tool to help create a faster and more consistent review experience. Since anyone can use it, PQP also gives the initial developer an idea of where their code stands before the review.
• esfri_roadmap_2008_update_20090123.pdf (application/pdf-Objekt)
  ESFRI, the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures, acts on issues related to the development of high scientific quality European research infrastructures. ESFRI gives national authorities the opportunity to exchange news and to explore common and integrated initiatives for the best development and use of research infrastructures of European relevance. As such, ESFRI contributes to the implementation of the Lisbon agenda by integrating national policies and thus providing Europe with the most up-to-date research infrastructures. This responds to the need of the scientific community to address the rapidly evolving science frontiers.
• Academic software for research papers | Mendeley
  Mendeley Desktop is academic software that indexes and organizes all of your PDF documents and research papers into your own personal digital bibliography. It gathers document details from your PDFs allowing you to effortlessly search, organize and cite. It also looks up PubMed, CrossRef, DOIs and other related document details automatically. Drag and drop functionality makes populating the library quick and easy. The bookmarklet allows you to quickly and easily import papers from resources such as Google Scholar, ACM, IEEE and many more at the click of a button.
• Google Begins Fixing Usenet Archive | Epicenter | Wired.com
  Google was widely hailed as heroic in late 2001 when it rescued two decades of orphaned Usenet posts and put them in Google Groups. But in the years since, meaningful access to the archive became all but impossible as search and indexing bugs proliferated on the site, a situation that was only passingly acknowledged by Google until Wednesday night. Searching or browsing a range of dates is still broken, but the company says it has begun working in earnest on making Google Groups usable again. “We’re aware of the larger issues with Groups search, and we’ll continue to work on improving the product,” said spokesman Jason Freidenfelds, in a follow-up e-mail.
• Google’s Abandoned Library of 700 Million Titles (UPDATED) | Epicenter | Wired.com
  Google’s search engine and other tools are the company’s strongest, if unstated, argument in favor of the Google Books Settlement, which would give the internet the largest and most comprehensive library in history, at the cost of granting Google a de facto monopoly. It’s hard to imagine any company better equipped to scan, catalog and index millions of books than Google. But a few geeks with long memories remember the last time Google assembled a giant library that promised to rescue orphaned content for future generations. And the tattered remnants of that online archive are a cautionary tale in what happens when Google simply loses interest. In the end, then, the rusting shell of Google Groups is a reminder that Google is an advertising company — not a modern-day Library of Alexandria.
• Starke Basis | Beiträge
  Viele Wählerinnen und Wähler sprachen der SPD bei der vergangenen Bundestagswahl kein Vertrauen mehr aus und straften sie hart ab. Das Ergebnis ist das schlechteste Resultat für die SPD seit Bestehen der Bundesrepublik. Um die Partei nun wieder auf einen zukunftsfähigen Kurs zu bringen, ist sie auf Mithilfe angewiesen. Alle, die sich jemals mit der SPD und ihren Inhalten identifizieren konnten sind gefragt! All jene rufen wir dazu auf: Helft uns, die SPD bei diesem grundlegenden Erneuerungsprozess zu begleiten! Helft mit Euren Meinungen weiter, diskutiert zusammen darüber und stimmt über die Meinungen ab! Gemeinsam werden wir so wieder zu einer starken Basis mit einer Stimme! Wir werden das hier entstehende Meinungsbild auf dem Bundesparteitag im November präsentieren.
• Textarea Scrolling - Sheep Wiki
  When I read a long page in a wiki, and I want to correct something in it, I have scroll to the bottom, click "edit", find the right spot in the editor, correct it, save, then find the place again and continue reading. Please, make it so that I can click anywhere on the page, and the editor will come up scrolled to that spot. Thank you. Sounds pretty basic, doesn't it? Unfortunately, the canonical response to such a request is "this is not possible". Why not? Thousands of wiki users are doing it each time they edit a page, if they can do it, why can't the computer do it? There is a number of difficult problems…
• Data-Liberation: Google befreit Nutzerdaten | Digital | ZEIT ONLINE
  Wer zur Konkurrenz wechseln will, kann seine Daten künftig problemlos mitnehmen. Google hilft sogar dabei. Fragt sich nur, ob mehr dahinter steckt als ein guter PR-Trick
• HandBrake
  HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded video transcoder, available for MacOS X, Linux and Windows.