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author: Chris Hodapp
comments: true
date: 2009-08-14 02:31:59+00:00
layout: post
slug: '2009-08-12'
title: 2009.08.12
wordpress_id: 190
categories:
- Scratch
tags:
- books
- food
- games
- hippie
- linux
- paranoia
- programming
- software
- videos
- web
---

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## videos,paranoia





	
  * [Here](http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-4097602514885833865) and [here](http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6014022229458915912) - videos from Prof. James Duane and Officer George Bruch about why talking to the police is almost never a good idea.




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## software





	
  * [omploader](http://omploader.org/) - A place to upload files. It can also be done with a firefox extension or in a script.

	
  * [Paperback](http://ollydbg.de/Paperbak/), from the [OllyDbg](http://www.ollydbg.de/) guy. This lets you store data on paper (about 500 KB for A4 at 600 DPI).




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## web





	
  * [HTML5 Canvas Experiment](http://9elements.com/io/?p=153) - Perhaps good for comparing different Javascript engines. It chokes on Firefox 3.5 on my Atom 330, but works well on 3.6.

	
  * [drop.io](http://drop.io/) - A file sharing site which Wired mentioned because of its ability to set an expiration date on any file you upload. It also appears to have a collection of other, much cooler features for collaboration.




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## programming,linux





	
  * [Bash cures cancer](http://bashcurescancer.com) - Some helpful stuff for commandline Unix/Linux. It seems to have not been updated in about a year though.

	
  * [Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!](http://learnyouahaskell.com/) - My friend Lincoln showed me this. It’s a decent Haskell tutorial with some very oddball illustrations.

	
  * [How to Design Programs](http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/) - A book, freely available online, which teaches software design using Scheme (or is it [DrScheme](http://www.drscheme.org/)?)

	
    * [How to Design Worlds](http://world.cs.brown.edu/): Interactive Programming in DrScheme - Another freely available book from the same guys that made HtDP, but this one is about writing interactive applications using pure functional programming.







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## games





	
  * [Kongregate](http://www.kongregate.com/) - A large collection of rather addictive online Flash games.




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## books





	
  * [The Underground History of American Education](http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/underground/) by John Taylor Gatto; the full text is readable for free online. I haven’t read it, I just noted the link, so I can neither agree nor disagree with the contents of it.

	
  * [Wishcraft](http://www.wishcraft.com/) by Barbara Sher; I came across this motivational book from [Havi Brooks](http://www.fluentself.com). I haven’t read this either, but I should at some point. It’s free as a series of PDFs.




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## food





	
  * [Basic Beef Stew with Carrots and Mushrooms](http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=displayRecipe&recipe_id=1142004) - made this last week and I’m noting it here so I can find it later. No, I don’t use bookmarks.




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## hippie





	
  * [Living on NST - Nomadic Standard Time](http://www.technomadia.com/2009/08/nst-nomadic-standard-time/) - Some post from "Tales from Technomadia".




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## something





	
  * [Seth Godin’s Blog](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/) - I can’t remember why I saved this, but it looks like it’s full of thought-provoking articles.

	
    * [The bandwidth-sync correlation…](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/08/the-bandwidth-sync-correlation-thats-worth-thinking-about.html) is worth looking at.