Some interesting links for you:
A way to monitor your competitors website for changes using Page2rss.
A commentary on Google’s investment in a genetic mapping company and the possible implications.
A home ethanol system (by the guy who invented the Wii fit system) which reduces the cost of fueling you car to around 50 cents per gallon.
And, finally, a way to instantly print your digital photos
Some useful links I’ve found in the past few weeks:
Zamzar is a free online file conversion tool, no need to download or install software, and it converts a huge range of image, video, document file formats.
If you ever lamented the number of cars on the road with one person in them, then you’ll like TripShare. It’s an Aussie service to get more people sharing their car travel and sharing the costs.
Work on your photos online using Picnik, another service where you don’t need to buy or download any software.
With the crazy amount of content up on the net at the moment, Popurls is a great way to quickly find the most popular Urls at the moment
MailFreezr is a service that lets you create an email to someone, and then store it for as many years as you want, when it is then sent to the person. You’d want to make sure the recipient’s email address stays the same over the next 10 years..
We need this service in Australia - BookSwim is a netflix style service but for books..pay a monthly fee, get the books posted to you, and then post them back when you’re finished.
Zazz sells on thing, one day at a time, at a discount price.
This is awesome - a way to convert your own document into a magazine
Yummy, vegetarian fast food places seem to be popping up all over the place, Yellow Sunshine in Germany has been around for years, and there’s also V.G Burgers in the US who use organic ingredients, biodegradable packaging materials, and wind power energy.
Ecolect is a website for sustainable building materials, their mission statement sums it up well - “to be the largest, freely accessible sustainable materials library in the world”
On the Olympic Dam
Register your environmentally friendly club or business here at EcoVoice
Find out the biggest carbon emitting plants around the world, and in your neighbourhood, using Carma
An Italian company has created an initiative whereby inmates of a jail will produce eco-friendly ice-cream using local produce.
This is an excellent talk, given by Wade Davis, about cultures at the far edges of the world, and the alarming rates at which they are disappearing:
If you love mowing lawns, why not create a lawn on the rooftop of your home or office? Green roofs is another urban agriculture idea.
Not that mowing is a problem in Brisbane at the moment with the drought..