--- author: Chris Hodapp comments: true date: 2008-06-07 layout: post slug: 20080607-20080617-yay-notes title: 2008.06.07 - 2008.06.17, yay notes wordpress_id: 89 categories: - Scratch tags: - political - programming --- **Potentially political** * [Meetup](http://www.meetup.com/) - find groups of a given topic or interest, near whatever location you give... or "Get on the Internet to get off the Internet * [Legal Rights of Photographers](http://www.kantor.com/blog/2005/12/legal-rights-of-photographers/) by Andrew Kantor  (or [this PDF](http://www.kantor.com/blog/Legal-Rights-of-Photographers.pdf)) - very informative and helpful to know * [The Photographer's Right](http://www.krages.com/phoright.htm) flyer by Bert P. Krages II, which is actually what I was trying to find when I found the link from Andrew Kanto * "The Sum of Our Days: A Memoir" by Isabel Allende ([Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Sum-Our-Days-Memoir/dp/006155183X)) * Local indie band, "[Bad Veins](http://www.myspace.com/badveins)" - my friend Carolyn wrote their name down a few years ago and told me to check the band out, and I stuck the piece of paper in a folder and forgot about it... then coincidentally when I finally looked them up online, realized I had already read an article about them months prior in Citybeat **Pretty obviously political** * [The Ruckus Society](http://www.ruckus.org/) - "provides environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals." * [Free Press](http://www.freepress.net/) - nonpartisan organization working for media reform * "The New Media Monopoly" by Ben H. Bagdikian ([Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/New-Media-Monopoly-Ben-Bagdikian/dp/0807061875)) * [Daily Kos](http://dailykos.com/) - "State of the Nation", **Technology/electronics** * [Arduino](http://www.arduino.cc/) - "an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software." Can be purchased pre-assembled or built by hand; software and CAD files are available at the site. * [FreeIO](http://freeio.org/) - "Free Hardware Design Resources for the Free Software Community" though looks slightly dead * [Gallium3D](http://www.tungstengraphics.com/wiki/index.php/Gallium3D) - "Tungsten Graphics' new architecture for building 3D graphics drivers."; only interesting to me because it might mean better Linux drivers for 3D graphics cards. * [BAZIX One Chip MSX](http://www.bazix.nl/onechipmsx.html) - apparently implements some computer called the MSX, and does it using an Altera FPGA... I don't know * [Hypercomputing HC-62](http://www.starbridgesystems.com/hypercomputing/HC-62/) - just some ridiculously fast computer with 36 GB of RAM and eleven FPGAs * [Holografika](http://holografika.com/) - true 3D holographic display, visible with naked eye, so the site claims (and has videos to show) * [Astak Mentor](http://www.astak.com/e-book.html) ebook reader - epaper-based, claimed to get 8000 pages per charge, support TXT, PDF, RTF, HTML, on a WinCE-based OS, with SD expansion card and wireless; there is a 5" version (800x600) should be $200, 9.7" (1280x825) for $350. Should be available Real Soon Now(tm). * [iRex iLiad](http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad) looks to have better specs and it is Linux-based, however it's also $600-$700 (but it's actually for sale) * [Graphics Gems](http://www.glassner.com/andrew/writing/books/gems.htm) by Andrew Glassner - a set of books I should probably read eventually so I stop reinventing the wheel every time I program anything **Software** * [serdisplib](http://serdisplib.sourceforge.net/) - library to drive serial displays with built-in controllers (like the Optrex LCDs I messed around with at work) * [ACML (AMD Core Math Library)](http://developer.amd.com/cpu/libraries/acml/Pages/default.aspx) - heavily optimized routines for [LAPACK](http://www.netlib.org/lapack/), [BLAS](http://www.netlib.org/blas/), FFT, transcendental & random number generation, utilizing SIMD instructions available on AMD CPU * Similar - [SIMDx86](http://simdx86.sourceforge.net/) - optimized SIMD library for x86 (I don't think it does x86-64) * [FBReader](http://fbreader.org/) - ebook reader for Linux/Windows, intended for portable devices. Handles [Plucker](http://www.plkr.org/) which I found really useful on Palm * [sdtcon](http://sdtcon.sourceforge.net/) - "Simple and secure remote access over SSH... provides easy to configure, easy to use, secure remote and out of band access to systems and devices inside a private LAN or management network."; works via SSH and Java on Linux/Windows * [FreeRTOS](http://www.freertos.org/) - free, portable, open source, mini realtime kernel for embedded systems, like ARM7, ARM9, Cortex-M3, MSP430, MicroBlaze * [DjVu](http://djvu.org/) - digital document format with very high compression and quality for scanned documents or photographs... too bad it's not nearly as well-supported as JPEG and other raster formats, lossy or otherwise * [C optimisation tutorial](http://www.abarnett.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html) - from 1998 but still pretty relevant * [DSP DesignLine](http://www.dspdesignline.com/) - lots of useful articles and technical papers about programming for DSPs (such as [this one](http://www.dspdesignline.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=N1PJTSHS1PDP2QSNDLPSKHSCJUNN2JVN?articleID=197006981&queryText=c+code) about Programming and Optimizing C Code)