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author: Chris Hodapp
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date: 2008-08-04
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slug: 20080804-20080821-more-technical-blah
title: 2008.08.04 - 2008.08.21, more technical blah
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categories:
- Scratch
tags:
- flamewars
- food
- mind
- Music
- politics
- sleep
---

**Ideas ranging between "unconventional" and "BS"
**



	
  * [Uberman's Sleep Schedule](http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/4/15/103358/720) if you are insane enough and need the extra time

	
  * [Live Longer: The One Anti-Aging Trick that Works](http://www.livescience.com/health/080708-fountain-of-youth.html) (no, "live longer" is not the trick, it's caloric restriction)

	
  * [How Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter](http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080806/sc_livescience/howyourinnerathletemakesyousmarter)

	
  * [Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind](http://www.livescience.com/health/top10_mysteriesofthemind-1.html)

	
  * [Collected Writing of Don DeGracia](http://www.geocities.com/ddegraci/) - pertains to lucid dreams & astral projection. I originally found his writings on a BBS in about 1999, and the files I found were from Compuserve in 1994. Wow.

	
  * Software for binaural beating: [binaural](http://sourceforge.net/projects/binaural), [sbagen](http://sourceforge.net/projects/sbagen), [AutoZen](http://freshmeat.net/projects/autozen/)


**Political stuff**



	
  * [Corporate Swine](http://corporateswine.net/) - certain companies, and why they suck.

	
  * [They Rule](http://www.theyrule.net/) - "They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class." The page is almost all Flash-based, but given its interface I don't see how else it could have been done. Check it out.

	
  * [SaveNetRadio](http://www.savenetradio.org/)


**Food**



	
  * [The cottage cheese page](http://www.stumptuous.com/cms/displayarticle.php?aid=23) - more things to make with cottage cheese than I thought was possible

	
  * [Kalyn's Kitchen](http://kalynskitchen.blogspot.com/) - a blog with lots of colorful pictures... oh, and recipes


**Music**



	
  * [Netlabels collection](http://www.archive.org/details/netlabels) at Internet Archive; "This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of 'virtual record labels'."

	
  * [Discogs](http://www.discogs.com/) - lots of information on music from obscure labels and artists

	
  * [Tangerine Dream](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangerine_Dream) - I wrote this band down in 2005 and I haven't listened to them yet

	
  * ["My Freedom" by Beat Foundation](http://www.imeem.com/groups/rGPu33gx/music/f-kqrsX2/beat_foundation_my_freedom/) - yet another ambient (or chillout?) track I liked, from Cafe Del Mar: Ibiza vol. 3 ([Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Caf%C3%A9-del-Mar-Ibiza-Vol/dp/B00000JWQ1))


**Literature and Other Stuff With Words**



	
  * ["Mysterious Stranger"](http://www.shsu.edu/~eng_wpf/authors/Twain/Mysterious-Stranger.htm) by Mark Twain

	
  * and a very creepy claymation version [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PodRqjeUBjw)

	
  * ["The War Prayer"](http://www.ntua.gr/lurk/making/warprayer.html) also by Mark Twain


**Technical Stuff**



	
  * [SynDEx](http://www-rocq.inria.fr/syndex/) from INRIA - "a system level CAD software based on the "algorithm- architecture adequation" (AAA) methodology, for rapid prototyping and optimizing the implementation of distributed real-time embedded applications onto "multicomponent" architectures."

	
  * [Data visualization tools for Linux](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-datavistools/) - covers [GnuPlot](http://www.gnuplot.info/), [Octave](http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/), [Scilab](http://www.scilab.org/), [MayaVi](http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/), [Maxima](http://maxima.sourceforge.net/), [OpenDX](http://www.opendx.org/)

	
  * [gnuplot tips](http://t16web.lanl.gov/Kawano/gnuplot/index-e.html) & not so frequently asked questions

	
  * [memcached](http://www.danga.com/memcached/) - "a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load."

	
  * [BeOS bootdisk collection](http://bootdisks.beuser.de/) which I have no idea if I'll ever use but here it is

	
  * [Thesis paper](http://www.erights.org/talks/thesis/index.html) from Mark Samuel Miller (Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control)

	
  * Another [thesis paper](http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/specpub.php?id=773), by D. P. Reed (Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System)

	
  * [P2P-Radio](http://p2p-radio.sourceforge.net/) - Internet radio distributed via peer-to-peer means

	
  * [PGP Digital Timestamping Service](http://www.itconsult.co.uk/stamper.htm)

	
  * [Manent](http://freshmeat.net/projects/manent) - algorithmically strong backup and archival program

	
  * [DSPACE](http://www.dspace.org/) - an open source solution for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works


**Shiny Technical Stuff**



	
  * [Project Looking Glass](http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/) from Sun Microsystems

	
  * [Videos](http://www.croquetconsortium.org/index.php/Screenshots/Videos) of Croquet from Croquet Consortium

	
  * [LaTeX Beamer Class](http://latex-beamer.sourceforge.net/) - something for making presentations in LaTeX

	
  * [http://www.visualcube.org/](http://www.visualcube.org/) - 3D volumetric display with 6x6x6 voxels


**Electronics/Programming/Lower-level**



	
  * More FPGA stuff - [Xilinx USB/Parallel JTAG cables on Linux without proprietary kernel modules](http://rmdir.de/~michael/xilinx/)

	
  * [OpenOCD](http://openocd.berlios.de/web/) - Open on-chip debugger, ISP, boundary scan

	
  * [Objective C & programming musics](http://jaortega.wordpress.com/category/objective-c/) at another wordpress blog

	
  * [GNUstep mini tutorials](http://www.gnustep.it/nicola/Tutorials/index.html)

	
  * [Implementing an Interpreter; or, Going Fast Without Writing Code](http://www.sidhe.org/~dan/presentations/Parrot_Implementation.pdf) - good presentation on the [Parrot Virtual Machine](http://www.parrotcode.org/)

	
  * [Perl 6 and the Parrot Virtual Machine](http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/pohjalai/k05/okk/seminar/Fagerholm-Parrot.pdf)

	
  * Ken Silverman's [voxel engine](http://advsys.net/ken/voxlap.htm) with source code available


**Flame Wars about technical stuff
**



	
  * [On the Thesis that X is Big/Bloated/Obsolete and Should Be Replaced ](http://linuxfinances.info/info/xbloat.html)because I've heard that too many times

	
  * [BSD vs. Linux](http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php)

	
  * ["He Who Controls the Bootloader"](http://www.birdhouse.org/beos/byte/30-bootloader/) by Scot Hacker (it's from 2001)

	
  * [Essay](http://lists.essential.org/info-policy-notes/msg00005.html) by Jean-Louis Gassee (of BeOS fame) on why PC makers don't sell non-MS stuff

	
  * [Article](http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/08/31/jean_louis_gass_233_e/) on a similar matter


**Games**



	
  * [Interview with Wendell Hicken](http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/scorched.ars), creator of [Scorched Earth](http://scorch.classicgaming.gamespy.com/) which is only one of my favorite games ever

	
  * [Outcast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outcast_(game)#Technology) - some voxel-based engine that was very well-done, apparently


