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author: Chris Hodapp
comments: true
date: 2009-07-22 02:22:28+00:00
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slug: '2009-07-21'
title: 2009.07.21
wordpress_id: 188
categories:
- Scratch
tags:
- books
- games
- historical
- links
- lit
- local
- programming
- software
- video
---

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## local,links





	
  * [Queen City Discovery](http://queencitydiscovery.blogspot.com/) - An interesting blog about urban exploration in Cincinnati that some guys in [Hive13](http://www.hive13.org/) told me about

	
  * Amidst a pile of other new-age and holistic bullshit in some free magazine, I miraculously discovered an ad for the "Uptown Farmer’s Market" at Garden Park - 3581 W. Galbraith Road, Fridays 12-7, Saturdays 10-2, 513-238-6616

	
    * In trying to find a record that this existed, I came across the [Central Ohio River Valley Local Foods Guide](http://www.eatlocalcorv.org/) (which does indeed acknowledge that this market exists).







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## programming





	
  * [MapReduce](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MapReduce) - I don’t care what your opinion of MapReduce is or how much it might suck, I am just putting this here so I will encounter it later and remember that it exists.

	
  * [Epigrams on Programming from Alan Perlis](http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/klaeren/epigrams.html) - Written in 1982 but still pretty true.




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## software





	
  * [Vanish: Self-Destructing Digital Data](http://vanish.cs.washington.edu/) - Pretty clever.




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## video,books





	
  * [Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?](http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_ariely_asks_are_we_in_control_of_our_own_decisions.html) - A video of a talk from this guy, who’s also the author of the book Predictably Irrational ([here?](http://www.amazon.com/Predictably-Irrational-Hidden-Forces-Decisions/dp/006135323X) the [official website](www.predictablyirrational.com) looks gone)

	
  * [Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness](http://www.amazon.com/Nudge-Improving-Decisions-Health-Happiness/dp/0300122233) ** Not sure why I wrote this down. I haven’t read it.

	
  * [the deliberate dumbing down of america](http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/) by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt - I have not yet read this but it looks good. PDF is available [here](http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf).




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## games





	
  * [Balance of Power](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Power_%28video_game%29) - A geopolitics game by Chris Crawford (also with his interesting essay/article [here](http://www.erasmatazz.com/library/Balance%20of%20Power.txt)).




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## lit,historical





	
  * [We the People Network](http://www.wtpnet.org/library) - I was searching for an image of the Declaration of Independence here and discovered they have rather high-resolution scans (like, the Declaration is 63 megapixels) of that and many other historical documents too.