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author: Chris Hodapp
comments: true
date: 2008-07-10
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slug: 20080710-20080726-debris
title: 2008.07.10 - 2008.07.26 debris
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categories:
- Scratch
tags:
- Hardware
- Music
---

**Food-related
**



	
  * [Chai recipe I tried](http://www.odie.org/chai/rec/rec104.html)

	
  * [Using fresh and ground ginger](http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/ginger.html) - which I looked up because I had a lot of ginger root left over than just the 1/4" that I used for the chai

	
  * [Wikibooks cookbook](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook) - I don't know much of what else is on it, but my recipe for hardtack came from here.

	
  * [Stuff to do with cloves](http://herbal-skin-care-products.blogspot.com/2008/05/clove.html) which doesn't really belong here because these are mostly medicinal uses


**Music**



	
  * [The Future Freaks Me Out](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_Freaks_Me_Out) - album from a band my friend Shannon likes

	
  * [Jamglue](http://www.jamglue.com/) - remixing for the masses... I haven't looked at it in much detail. but Corina uses it

	
  * [John Walsh](http://www.myspace.com/americasmostpositive) - local (as in Cincinnati) punk/hardcore band that Joc likes

	
  * [The Seedy Seeds](http://www.theseedyseeds.com/) (and also [here](http://www.myspace.com/theseedyseeds) on Myspace) - another local band (electronica?) that Joc likes


**Shiny stuff**



	
  * [Dafont ](http://www.dafont.com/)- site full of categorized fonts for download (free for personal use)


**Books/Authors/Literature**



	
  * [Paul Ekman](http://www.paulekman.com/), "cutting edge  behavorial science for real world applications" with some downloadable articles

	
  * [The Silent Language](http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Language-Edward-T-Hall/dp/0385055498) and [The Hidden Dimension](http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Dimension-Edward-Twitchell-Hall/dp/0844665525/) by Edward T. Hall . . . pertains to non-verbal communication and emotions

	
  * Mentioned by Meredith and probably directed to a female audience but maybe still worth a look: [Memory Keeper's Daughter](http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Keepers-Daughter-Kim-Edwards/dp/0143037145) and [The Fall of a Sparrow](http://www.amazon.com/FALL-SPARROW-NOVEL-Robert-Hellenga/dp/0684850273) and [The Picture of Dorian Grey](http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/dgray10h.htm) and some books by an "up and author" Emily Giffin: [Something Blue](http://www.amazon.com/Something-Blue-Emily-Giffin/dp/0312323859), [Something Borrowed](http://www.amazon.com/Something-Borrowed-Emily-Giffin/dp/031232118X), and [Love the One You're With](http://www.amazon.com/Love-One-Youre-Emily-Giffin/dp/0312348673)

	
  * [Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583940790/)

	
  * Like [this one](http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=470) about how Science should find a way to make farts smell better.


**Hippie & Political Stuff**



	
  * Joc showed me this: [Freecycle](http://www.freecycle.org/) - "It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills."

	
  * [The Problem with Music](http://www.negativland.com/albini.html) by Steve Albini

	
  * [Courtney Love's](http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html) commentary on record label profits, Napster, music, and piracy

	
  * [Order of Death](http://youtube.com/watch?v=rdi8R3vXV-I) on Youtube - someone told me I should watch it. I haven't yet. There's a high chance it's complete BS.


**Software stuff**



	
  * [Bart's way to create bootable CDs](http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/) -  very handy

	
  * [Squeak](http://www.squeak.org/) - VM (open source) implementing Smalltalk  (this [FLOSS Weekly](http://twit.tv/floss29) talks about it)

	
  * [Seaside](http://www.seaside.st/) - "framework for developing sophisticated web applications in Smalltalk"  (this [FLOSS Weekly](http://twit.tv/floss21) talks about it as well)

	
  * [Squeak by Example](http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/SBE/) - pretty good book (available as a PDF for free, or as a printed copy from lulu.com for $20.10)

	
  * [Early History of Smalltalk](http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html) by Alan Kay - it is from 1993, but is still a very in-depth paper

	
  * [Smalltalk: Getting the Message](http://www.chronos-st.org/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html) - article more focused on the "why" and "how" of Smalltalk than its history

	
  * [SliTaz](http://www.linux.com/feature/140573) - a Linux distro designed to run out of RAM and still have a usable desktop; current version is only about 25 MB

	
  * [Rocks Clusters](http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/) - a CentOS-based Linux distro designed to make building and managing clusters a lot easier (mentioned in this [FLOSS Weekly](http://twit.tv/floss30))

	
  * [Webconverger](http://webconverger.com/) - "open source web kiosk", or basically a Linux distro designed to boot quickly into Firefox

	
  * [VR Juggler Suite](http://www.vrjuggler.org/) - some sort of open source virtual reality suite

	
  * [Englab](http://englab.sourceforge.net/) - open source mathematical platform, similar to MATLAB, in very early versions right now

	
  * [Quotes about C and C++](http://www.sysprog.net/quotec.html) and [Programming Quotes](http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesProgramming.html) which are mostly good for being funny rather than useful, or for pissing people off


**Hardware stuff (DIYish)**



	
  * [Making a solar baker from an abandoned satellite dish](http://www.backyardnature.net/j/solardsh.htm)

	
  * [LyngSat](http://www.lyngsat.com/) - free satellite channels to receive, in case you wanted something else to do with that satellite dish

	
  * [Journal](http://slashdot.org/~evilviper/journal/189083) from evilviper on Slashdot, also about FTA satellite reception

	
  * [Atmel AVR ATmega16 / ATmega32 programmer](http://www.captain.at/electronics/atmel-programmer/) - needs parallel port and ATmega16

	
  * [Really simple AVR ISP programmer for ATmega128](http://www.scienceprog.com/simplest-128-atmega-programmer/) - uses just parallel port and a few resistors


**Hardware stuff (non-DIY-unless-you-have-a-fab-or-a-CNC)**



	
  * [Loongson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson) - general-purpose CPU made at Chinese Academy of Sciences; MIPS-compatible and used in some small devices like [this](http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8003782690.html)


**Research**



	
  * [3D holographic display](http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/06/usc-lab-creates.html) at USC (uses projector + rapidly rotating mirror)

	
  * [Lest We Remember:](http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/) Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys  -  research from Princeton about how information can be recovered from memory after a system is powered off, and how to utilize this to defeat most encryption systems because they leave their keys in memory.


**Video game-related**



	
  * [FIFE engine](http://www.fifengine.de/) - open source 2D engine designed for isometric and top-down views

	
  * [XGameStation](http://www.xgamestation.com/) video game development kit - looks like they have various kits for programming games, old-school style, and a lot of user-submitted programs

	
  * 

