• breaking: nesting sea turtle escorted from private beach. #theonion #fb #
• Open Sesame: A Safer Way to Log In To Your Google Accounts http://t.co/HjeD0CZ3 #
• the future according to films. http://t.co/N3uY1bbQ #fb #
• carlos vives – el amor de mi tierra http://t.co/WD2TC6EK #
• RT @zefrank: a group of monkeys is called a "quarrel". antarctica is is made out of the tears of a frozen giant #FactsWithoutWikipedia #
• it turns out not everybody can see the rainbow effect with home projectors. can you? http://t.co/kLdVCmLO #fb #
• eyebombing: googly eyes everywhere! http://t.co/qhRnw5jH #
• BLIZZARD! #fb #
• it says 'theoretical physicists', but i'd like to use this as a greeting to all physicists. ;) http://t.co/tXF4eITU #
• "this is the first day of my life. i'm glad i didn't die before i met you!" http://t.co/Ysn9ZW5R #
• gallo pinto lunch. just in time for costa rican lunch time. :) #fb #

• "can i ask you two a question?" http://t.co/lbF1nd2x #
• the cat is planning something evil. http://t.co/H3UXVbAA #youtube #
• ukulele orchestra of great britain – good, bad & ugly. it's like this was never meant to be played in any other version http://t.co/4wSxAJtb #
• youtube: "people are awesome". holy sh!t… http://t.co/5wlqbusv #
• good morning! http://t.co/sHbkZ9t7 #
• youtube stop motion: organizing the bookcase http://t.co/Q0kUhAWZ #
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this picture was taken in the rooiberg mountains near eksteenfontein (south africa), just south of the namibian border and close to richtersveld world heritage site. we visited the region while on a botanical field trip.
ammie, miri, christian and i did a quick evening hike up to one of the peaks (this specific one, to be exact), and arrived there just before darkness moved in across the land.

i also remember re-reading douglas adam’s “hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy” during that trip, and finding the number 42 here – in the middle of nowhere – painted in big white digits on a rock wall next to the road.

you can find more information about the trip in our field trip report: namibia and south africa.

check it out: a section of my time-lapse video of tadpole development was used (with permission) in the following music video for joe reilly’s “amphibians”.

i think this is the most unusual use of anything i have ever made. :)

the problem:
i have a folder with lots of files in them, and need a list of filenames that can be edited using a text editor, excel or word.

the solution:
this is pretty simple in windows: just open notepad or your favourite text editor, copy&paste the following code:

dir /a /b /-p /o:gen >filelist.txt
…and “save as” a .bat file, e.g. filelist.bat (make sure it’s not .bat.txt!).
now, if you execute that file (double-click or enter), it creates a textfile named “filelist.txt” in the same directory.

code via theeldergeek

• verkehrsinfo für vorarlberg: stau von mellau bis (ge) schoppenau. weckt erinnerungen. :) #
• Eddie Izzard – Cake Or Death? http://t.co/4fT8vHxG #
• the weather is quite mild today …for a siberian snow storm. #fb #

these panoramas were recorded one (recent) icy winter morning. you can see the towns of absam (church on the far right), hall in tirol (approx. image center) and heiligkreuz (church on the far right) in the background of a snowy winter landscape.

the second picture shows how much of a difference it makes when the point of view is modified to exclude the power poles: [more...]