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author: Chris Hodapp
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date: 2008-05-24 04:06:44+00:00
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title: 20 pages of scrap notes, 2008.05.19-05.23
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- Scratch
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- politics
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I astound myself by how many pages of scrap notes I accumulate over 5 days, just during my down time at work.

**2008.05.19**



	
  * "Exposing the Modern Racist Paradigm," extremely long page [here
](http://www.opposingdigits.com/racistparadigm/)

	
  * Someone's opinions on why the Amiga is awesome, [here](http://www.basden.demon.co.uk/amiga/amigade/features.html) . . . meaningful to me because I haven't used an Amiga

	
  * [Simputer](http://www.simputer.org/) - "self-contained, open hardware handheld computer, designed for use in environments where computing devices such as personal computers are deemed inappropriate." (quoth [wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simputer))... this looks like a project that didn't do as well as expected and is rather old right now, but it looks interesting anyhow.

	
  * Someone's [blog](http://thomaskraemer.blogspot.com/2008/05/hp-memristor-math-visualization.html) about the memristor, and why it's the 4th circuit element, and why he thinks it's useful/revolutionary.

	
  * [Reversible computing](http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/reversible.html) . . . worthy of consideration


**2008.05.20**



	
  * Intel Atom D945GCLF motherboard from [Tranquil PC Ltd.](http://www.tranquilpc-shop.co.uk/acatalog/Motherboards.html) - $82 for motherboard with 1.60 GHz Atom 230; looks like a pretty good deal

	
  * [OLPC XO 2.0](http://www.xconomy.com/2008/05/20/negroponte-unveils-2nd-generation-olpc-laptop-its-an-e-book/) - new version of the XO, which "isn’t really a laptop at all but a double-screened, fold-up electronic book", and which Negroponte has a goal of being producing for $75 each.

	
  * [Pen Computing](http://pencomputing.com/) - good resource on mobile/handheld/rugged computing products


**2008.05.21**



	
  * [Lulu](http://www.lulu.com/) - Self publishing service; allows you to publish (as in, actual physical books that can be purchased online) with no setup fees. You keep 80% of creator revenue on sales, and you keep the copyrights to the material.

	
  * [Adam Smith's Lost Legacy](http://adamsmithslostlegacy.com/) - because someone's pissed about how people constantly mangle what Adam Smith said


**2008.05.22**



	
  * [Digilent Inc.](http://www.digilentinc.com/) - Offers some inexpensive starter boards with Xilinx Spartan FPGAs or Atmel AVR microcontrollers

	
  * [Xtreme Data, Inc.](http://www.xtremedatainc.com/) - "Database Analytics Appliance able to sustain 1TB/min of SQL processing"... well, that's kinda boring, but I suppose it does live up to the name, and somehow accomplishes this with FPGAs.

	
  * [DRC Computer Corporation](http://drccomputer.com/) - offers Reconfigurable Processor Unit which fits into an AMD Opteron socket on a multiway board, allowing it to directly connect to its bus and access memory, and offload CPU-intensive software routines to hardware; they use Xilinx FPGAs for this.

	
  * [Project VGA](http://wacco.mveas.com/) - "Low Budget, Open Source, VGA Compatible video card"

	
  * [FPGA Central](http://www.fpgacentral.com/) - Good resource for FPGA links


**2008.05.23**



	
  * [Llamasoft Blog](http://www.llamasoft.co.uk/blog/) - From the maker of one of my favorite games, Llamatron. He has written some interesting software.

	
  * [JavaSpaces](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space#JavaSpaces) - distributed shared memory in Java, along with other stuff, and part of [Jini](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jini) from Sun. This could be neat if I actually used Java.

	
  * [VX32](http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/~baford/vm/) - "virtual extension environment" for x86; one can run x86 apps in this for a secure, isolated environment in which they are limited in what they are allowed to do.

	
  * [ACL2](http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~moore/acl2/) (Applicative Common Lisp) - "both a programming language in which you can model computer systems and a tool to help you prove properties of those models," and part of the Boyer-Moore family of theorem provers