---
author: Chris Hodapp
comments: true
date: 2008-05-26
layout: post
slug: semi-organized-scrap-notes-20080526-20080601
title: Semi-organized scrap notes, 2008.05.26-2008.06.01
wordpress_id: 87
categories:
- Scratch
tags:
- crackpots
- linux
- politics
- science
---

**Political/otherwise controversial**


	
  * Seen on a bumper sticker on a semi truck: [http://www.headsneedtoroll.org/](http://www.headsneedtoroll.org/) . . . looks to have a pretty good stated mission[
](http://www.headsneedtoroll.org/)

	
  * [Vote Apathy Party 08](http://www.apathyparty08.com/) because at least I'm honest.

	
  * Just discovered [Utah Phillips](http://www.utahphillips.org/) upon hearing an interview with him after his death on May 23

	
  * "Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine On Trial" by Simon Singh ([Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Trick-Treatment-Alternative-Medicine-Trial/dp/0593059042))


**Technical blah**



	
  * For some "brilliant" explanations of why most science is completely wrong, [Louis Savain's site](http://www.rebelscience.org/Crackpots/notorious.htm) is a good reference

	
  * You can score the site on [The crackpot index](http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html) by John Baez ("A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics")

	
  * [The Join-Calculus](http://moscova.inria.fr/join/index.shtml) from [INRIA](http://www.inria.fr) in France - "...a process calculus. It provides a simple support for distributed programming."

	
  * [JoCaml](http://jocaml.inria.fr/) from the same place; basically [Objective Caml](http://caml.inria.fr/ocaml/) plus Join-Calculus

	
  * INRIA also made [SciLab](http://www.scilab.org/) which is quite useful as a free tool for numerical computation, particularly if you hate MATLAB.

	
  * [uClinux](http://www.uclinux.org/) - embedded Linux/Microcontroller project, for MMU-less systems... website is very slow as of late for some reason

	
  * [ELKS](http://elks.sourceforge.net/) (Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset) - in case you really want to run a subset of Linux on an Intel 8086, 8088, 80186, 80188, 80286, 386 in V86 mode, or Psion SIBO

	
  * [JLime](http://www.jlime.com/) - Jornada Linux Mobility Edition, which runs quite well on some HP Jornadas, like the 680, which is good in cases like mine when the included WinCE is one giant pile of fail


