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Independent app stores (with their own repository of apps)
- F-Droid. The gold standard of FOSS app stores.
- UpToDown, mostly Google Play's apps it seems, but also accepts submissions from developers. Run by Spanish company, not FOSS, but can be used without user registration.
Alternative front-end clients to F-Droid
Simply front-ends to the Google Play store
- https://fontawesome.com
- https://forkaweso.me NO LONGER MAINTAINED
- https://jpswalsh.github.io/academicons
- Heroicons, SVG icons, MIT license. Via mediakollen.
- Noun Project: Free Icons & Stock Photos for Everything, free tier at 1 MP resolution with CC BY-NC-ND license.
I like to think of this as the whole sky always being "there", but the Earth blocks about half of it ALL THE TIME! Alternately, if we look straight "up", we're always pointed towards a different part of same sky. I made these reprocessed spherical timelapses to hopefully communicate these perspectives. I think it's pretty incredible how the sky acts like an ever-changing window on our universe.
Search for journals where you can publish Open Access.
Search engine built on SciFree, funded by Vinnova.
Free and open source PDF readers. A list by the FSFE.
An orrery is a mechanical model of the Solar System that illustrates or predicts the relative positions and motions of the planets and moons, usually according to the heliocentric model.
This simulated view of our solar system runs on real data. The positions of the planets, moons and spacecraft are shown where they are right now.
Runs better in Chromium-based browser (didn't work in my Firefox).
Web-based book. Looks really interesting. By Matthew Butterick, 2014.
Via Amolith.
The NIST Uncertainty Machine is a web-based software application produced by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to evaluate the measurement uncertainty associated with a scalar or vectorial output quantity that is a known and explicit function of a set of scalar input quantities for which estimates and evaluations of measurement uncertainty are available.
Via 3quarksdaily
There's also a Youtube playlist.
- ITA Matrix (aggregator, how-to and background)
- Skiplagged (aggregator, also searches for throwaway tickets) prices in USD
- Skyscanner (aggregator)
- Kayak (aggregator, part of Booking Holdings Inc.)
- Google Flights (aggregator)
- Momondo (aggregator, danskt bolag, sköts av Kayak som är en del av Booking Holdings Inc.)
- Expedia (aggregator/OTA) primarily for charter trips, enforces weird booking rules
- CheapOAir (OTA) prices in USD
- Booking.com (aggregator)
- Agoda (aggregator/OTA, part of Booking Holdings Inc.)
- Orbitz (OTA)
- Sembo (OTA, Helsingborg, Stena Line Travel Group AB) [SRF ✔]
- Allaflygbiljetter.se (aggregator)
- Flygresor.se (aggregator, Flightmate AB, part of Etraveli Group AB) [SRF ✔]
- SuperSaver (aggregator, Svenska Resegruppen AB, part of Etraveli Group AB) [SRF ✔]
- Travelstart (aggregator, Svenska Resegruppen AB, part of Etraveli Group AB) [SRF ✔]
- MyTrip (aggregator, Svenska Resegruppen AB, part of Etraveli Group AB) [SRF ✔]
- Seat24 (aggregator, Svenska Resegruppen AB, part of Etraveli Group AB) [SRF ✔]
- Ticket.se (OTA, ägs av Braganza) [SRF ✔]
- Travellink (OTA, ägs av https://edreams.com)
- JetRadar (aggregator) prices in USD/EUR
- Hotwire (OTA) prices in USD
- Travelocity (OTA) priser i USD
- SecretFlying
- BilligaFlygbiljetter.se (aggregator, ägs av Vuelos Baratos Ltd.) unusally poor UX website
- CitizenPlane (a sort of aggregator, not an OTA) ägs av franskt bolag, en société par actions simplifiée. Should probably be avoided.
You can also book tickets directly from many airlines.
Airlines
- Pegasus, Turkish airline, based in Istanbul SAW
- WizzAir, based in Hungary (but their app is horrible, 118 MB, also requests superuser rights?!)
Review articles
https://upgradedpoints.com/best-websites-for-booking-cheap-flights
https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848046-the-10-best-and-worst-airfare-search-sites
https://www.topfivebuzz.com/20-best-flight-search-engines-for-international-flights-to-find-cheapest-airfares
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnnyjet/2017/10/04/5-best-online-tools-for-searching-flights
An aggregator is only as good as the OTAs (online travel agencies) it canvasses. There are booking engines that find prices themselves (Expedia, Priceline, Hotwire). And then there are aggregators—sites that do not book tickets but instead search dozens of booking engines, airfare sites, and OTAs and compile the results in one place; you then click through to the one of your choice to make the actual purchase.
https://www.frommers.com/slideshows/848046-the-10-best-and-worst-airfare-search-sites
More links
- Svenska Resebyrå- och arrangörsföreningen (SRF), medlemsförteckning
- SVT artikel om Etraveli Group AB
- Life of an Airline Flight: What Systems Get You From Here to There via the Air, youtube video of talk by Adam Fletcher (2019)
With an eye towards travel agencies that could be useful for our family travel.
Also see my note on OTAs and aggregators.
- Tripp resebyrå Jönköping
- Nygren & Lind resebyrå Surbrunnsgatan 6, Stockholm
- Lingmerths resebyrå (Uppsala universitet använder Lingmerths)
- Resia Vi skräddarsyr resan efter dina behov och erbjuder allt från weekendresor och paketresor med flyg och hotell till sista minuten.
- BigTravel, fullservice resebyrå med 35 års erfarenhet av affärs-, grupp- och konferensresor. Hjälper många små och medelstora företag med deras affärs- och konferensresor.
UD:s "Svensklistan": här kan du lämna uppgifter om var du befinner dig och hur du kan kontaktas under din utlandsvistelse. Uppgifterna kan vid behov användas av UD eller ambassaden för att kontakta dig om en konsulär krissituation skulle inträffa.
A Javascript tool to model tandem photocatalytic devices, by Brian Seger, assoc. prof. at DTU.
I first heard about it in a talk by Ib Chorkendorff (PECSYS, 201105).
Fantastic little tool. I used it on Baahubali 2, whose subtitles were drifting more and more with time, and it corrected it without any user intervention. Very nice!
It is even integrated into Bazarr (automatic subtitle synchronisation can be enabled in Bazarr's settings).
For 20 years, astronauts have been shooting photos of Earth from the space station. Like everything the astronauts do, they are trained for this job. And like everything they do, there is purpose and intention behind it.
By the NASA Earth Observatory. Link to video itself (6m45s).
Allemansrätten är en unik möjlighet för oss alla att röra oss fritt i naturen. Men vi behöver också ta ansvar för natur och djurliv och visa hänsyn mot markägare och andra besökare.
Korta filmer om allemansrätten från Svenskt Friluftsliv
I liked some quotes in this article:
If you are going to teach science, you must give it in a historical context: you must stress how our current knowledge is the accumulation of course corrections. You must stress how it is a work in progress.
Given that science is fundamentally subversive, how could it emerge and survive? I believe that scientific thinking is part of a broader ideology that gives its bearers an evolutionary edge. Simply put, societies that make room for science have an edge. They build and deploy better technology. They adapt more quickly to change.
Genom ett nytt samråd har byggprojektet Samsö, som var på samråd 2013, åter blivit aktuellt. Projektet innebär att Hökarängen och Farsta byggs ihop genom en förlängning av Lingvägen. I den nya planen föreslås tre bostadshus och en förskola samt en utbyggnad av Kvickenstorpsskolan.
Se även
- https://vaxer.stockholm/aktuellt/2020/08/samrad-om-samso2/
- https://etjanster.stockholm.se/byggochplantjansten/pagaende-planarbete/planarende/2011-16053
- Lokaltidningen Mitti:s artikel i saken
- Cyklistbloggens (något ironiska) inlägg om förslaget
- Cyklistbloggens andra, mer ingående inlägg, beskriver de troliga konsekvenserna för cykeltrafik
- Ett tredje inlägg från Cyklistbloggen, apropå att biltrafiken ska begränsas något