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author: Chris Hodapp
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date: 2008-04-18 00:56:59+00:00
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title: Post-its and scrap notes, starting 2008.04.03
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- politics
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So, my bag now has a big stack of scrap notes in it, just from things I jotted down at work... these should probably go online...

**2008.04.03**



	
  * [http://www.ucsusa.org](http://www.ucsusa.org) - Union of Concerned Scientists

	
  * [Study: Unskilled and Unaware of It](http://www.apa.org/journals/features/psp7761121.pdf) - some notable paper

	
  * [Ig Nobel Prize](http://www.improbable.com/category/ig-nobel/) - "Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK"

	
  * [Talking Points Memo](http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/) - I don't know why I wrote this

	
  * [Analog Devices - Blackfin](http://www.analog.com/processors/blackfin/) - 16/32-bit embedded core, 10-stage RISC MCU/DSP pipeline, full SIMD support

	
  * [Analog Devices - SHARC](http://www.analog.com/processors/sharc/index.html) - floating-point DSP

	
  * [Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations](http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/04/administration-asserts-no-fourth-amendment-domestic-military-operations) - some article from EFF


**2008.04.04**



	
  * "Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn From the Past" - Lloyd Gardner, Marilyn Young ([Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Iraq-Lessons-Vietnam-Learn-Past/dp/1595581499))

	
  * [Open Media Now! foundation](http://www.openmedianow.org/) - has the goal of open media infrastructure; apparently the same guys who made [Gnash](http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/)

	
  * [Ohio InfoSec](http://ohioinfosec.org/)

	
  * "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" - Eric Hoffer; published in 1951, discusses the psychological causes of fanaticism ([Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/True-Believer-Thoughts-Movements-Perennial/dp/0060505915))

	
  * [IBM Power6 at 4.7 GHz benchmarks](http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/239162-28-power6-7ghz-benchmarks)




**2008.04.09**








	
  * [David Allen, Getting Things Done and GTD](http://www.davidco.com/) - some sorta organizational system that NPR's podcast from 2008.02.20 mentioned




**2008.04.11**








	
  * [Ken Miller](http://www.millerandlevine.com/km/evol/) - biology professor, notable for combining evolution with belief in God and rejecting creationism and intelligent design; wrote "Finding Darwin's God: A Scientist's Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution" ([Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Finding-Darwins-God-Scientists-Evolution/dp/0060930497/ref=sr_11_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1208479139&sr=11-1))




**2008.04.16**








	
  * "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" - Bertrand Russell ([e-text here](http://www.solstice.us/russell/intellectual_rubbish.html))

	
  * "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" - Naomi Klein ([personal site](http://www.naomiklein.org/shock-doctrine), [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Shock-Doctrine-Rise-Disaster-Capitalism/dp/0805079831))

	
  * same author: "No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs " ([Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/No-Logo-Space-Choice-Jobs/dp/0312421435))

	
  * "The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot" - Naomi Wolf... for a bit more apocalyptical point of view ([Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/End-America-Letter-Warning-Patriot/dp/1933392797/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_k2a_3_txt?pf_rd_p=304485601&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-2&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0312421435&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=02T588HAKSC426C3JPNX))

	
  * "War is a Racket" - Major General Smedley D. Butler - booklet/speech from 1930's ([e-text here](http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm))

	
  * [MUCS-PCB](http://intranet.cs.man.ac.uk/apt/projects/tools/mucs-pcb/) - PCB design software (GPLed) from University of Manchester




**2008.04.17**








	
  * [www.linuxcnc.org](http://www.linuxcnc.org) - software to let a PC control a CNC machine; according to archivist in #electronics on Freenode, this can use a parallel port (with some level converters and optoisolators) to control four stepper motors, and the CNC itself can be made from largely a lot of scrap parts