robot_dave: August 2007 Archives

• TED | Talks | Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? (video)
  Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it.
  (tags: culture learning presentation video)
• Coffee Drinks Illustrated | Lokesh Dhakar
  I ‘m new to the world of fancy coffee drinks. With the vast number of ordering options and new words with accented characters to pronounce; the coffee shop ordering experience can be intimidating. I’ve created a few small illustrations to help myself
  (tags: illustrations graphics recipes coffee)

• How to Change the World: Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn
  (tags: lifehacks social business interesting)

• Beer runners' trail a recipe for trouble -
  ”You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,„ she said. ”It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We’re thankful it wasn’t, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out.„
  (tags: security_theatre stupid usa news humour)
• try on eyeglasses
  (via tribe-dgny.blogspot.com)
  (tags: flash simulation fashion)
• Countries of The World
  (tags: games geography svg)
• The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
  The White House's plans to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards corps as a terrorist organization are intended to give the Bush administration cover if it launches military strikes on the Islamic republic, according to a prominent former CIA officer.
  (tags: politics usa news)
• Can you believe everything you are told when it comes to your health? | Health and wellbeing | Life and Health
  When it comes to your health, everyone seems to have some friendly advice to offer. But can you believe everything you are told? Anahad O'Connor investigates
  (tags: health)
• White House Manual Details How to Deal With Protesters - washingtonpost.com
  A White House manual that came to light recently gives presidential advance staffers extensive instructions in the art of "deterring potential protestors" from President Bush's public appearances around the country
  (tags: news politics usa fascism)
• The Official Ringo Starr Site
  Ringo Starr's official web site.
  (tags: fab music people)

• BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush ally Gonzales resigns post
  US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, embroiled in a row over the sacking of eight US attorneys, has formally announced his resignation. Rats, sinking ships, etc
  (tags: politics usa news)

• Euromyths - Keyword index
  The European Commission's Press Office in London monitors the British press's highly distorted coverage of the European Union. Euromyths are scare stories based on hearsay, rumours and half-truths, many of which have been repeated so often that they have
  (tags: europe news interesting bias)
• What the papers didn't say
  Press coverage in the UK of the European Union is often trivial, misleading or just plain wrong. It is little wonder that many people in this country are unsure what to believe about Britain's membership of the EU. Large amounts of space are often devoted
  (tags: news europe bias)

(Via Waider.)

• Alpine Information Center
  new version of pine
  (tags: email linux text)
• Making fun of Objectivism
  Objectivism Mockery Page
  (tags: humour politics)

• Flickr Photo Download: medieval sex flow chart
  A handy flowchart for determining if it's ok to make love in the Middle Ages
  (tags: humour graphics howto)

• [drasolt]weblog » #Libérate de la esclavitud laboral
  Coping with work stress
  (tags: pamphlet graphics instructions howto)
• dans.blog: Disabling Windows' native Zip folder support
  To prevent Windows XP from treating compressed Zip files as a folder, go to "Start > Run" and type the following:
  (tags: windows howto tips hacks)

• Data @ NASA GISS: GISS Surface Temperature Analysis: Graphs
  (tags: climate temperature science global)
• Hong Kong Blogs Review.
  The usual racism from a HK Chinese who has a one-dimensional view of all expats.
  (tags: racism hongkong hk reviews)
• Dread...ful
  (tags: hongkong hk blogs)
• clouded Bunny grounded in Denim
  (tags: honkgong blogs hk)

• Choose Climate: Flying Off to a Warmer Climate
  Calculate your carbon footprint from flights
  (tags: carbon environment travel aviation)
• Mark Lynas: It's carbon judgment day | Environment | The Guardian
  (tags: environment news carbon footprint lifestyle)
• OpenProj | Projity
  (tags: opensource software tools project planning)
• Featured Download: Automatically download new TV shows over BitTorrent with ted - Lifehacker
  (tags: bittorrent downloads tv)

• Carbon Calculator
  (tags: environment energy climate carbon green)
• The Man in Seat Sixty-One...
  (tags: rail travel guide europe)

• Free Stock Photos at freerangestock.com - Totally Free Stock Photography and Textures!
  (tags: art photography stock images)
• everystockphoto.com - your source for free photos
  (tags: photography stock images photo)
• Plugins iMovie - Apple iMovie - Plugins Apple iMovie
  (tags: apple movies plugins software video imovie)
• Stupendous Software iMovie Plugins Products
  (tags: imovie plugins apple)

• The Best 80 Photoshop Text Effects on the Web
  To some these may be not the best tutorials on the web, but certainly they are some of the best around. I had to eliminate those that looked nice but had very little preview images. This guide includes 78 Photoshop tutorials and 2 impressive collections..
  (tags: art design effects photoshop tutorial typography)
• Household: Design your home with Floorplanner - Lifehacker
  Web site Floorplanner is a web-based floor planning application that creates complex layouts to help you design the layout of any room in your home.
  (tags: apps design lifehacks house layout home)
• How To: Create a custom Windows XP installation disc - Lifehacker
  Burn your own customized Windows XP installation disc using the previously mentioned nLite and step-by-step instructions over at the Xtreme-Source forums.
  (tags: lifehacks software windows xp install custom howto)
• Personal Finance: Determine your crossover point with the Investment Spreadsheet 2.0 - Lifehacker
  he Hackszine weblog has shared an investment spreadsheet on Google Docs and Spreadsheets that helps you calculate your crossover point
  (tags: lifehacks money planning investments finance)
• The Sound of Young America: Awesome movies at Archive.org
  In the ephemeral section, you’ll find dancing ladies making an omelette, a soldier who doesn’t want to take a bath, and a paean to the patriotic power of electricity. And, oh boy: cautionary nuclear tales? Not a problem.
  (tags: movies video history archive)

• Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project, Inc.
  Children's Books Online: the Rosetta Project the largest collection of illustrated antique books on line... we think.
  (tags: books children kids literature e-books illustrations library)

• David Seah : The Printable CEO™ VI.1: Emergent Task Planning
  (tags: gtd hacks productivity download)

• DXF to Shapefile Converter
  This is a tool for converting AutoCad DXF (Data eXchange Format) files into ESRI Shapefiles, the format used by ArcMap and MapWindow. This software is open source under the GPL and was created using two other open-source tools: dxflib and MapWinGIS,
  (tags: tools transport modelling gis gpl opensource)