• More beat-oriented; sometimes mysterious

• I listened to these before bed; they had some nice imagery and visualizations

• 1st half: Dreamy, thick, emotional. "Cryogenic Suspension II" is familiar.

• 2nd half: More enigmatic, complex, beat-driven. "Chemical Karmasutra" has a signature sound

• I believe I got this as an album on eMusic, back when I still used it.
• It has five mixes (one a radio edit of another)
• I really like this, particularly the Vogelmann Armageddon Remix and Thomas Nolte Remix
• Heavy beat, varying tempo, a good mix of house and trance

This is Cardamar PARO011. I got this as a promo CD with "Cosmotherapy" by Dream Lab.

• Somewhat normal Cardamar sound (piano, generally gentle)
• #3 is notable (Radioactive Granny) despite the strange name
• Melodic, layered, with some light beats

• Some of this I've heard before (Kahvi #186) and already know I like
• I like the female vocals where I hear them
• A couple different sounds here...
• "I'll Guide You" - dreamy, atmospheric, elevated, delicate
• Stuff from Kahvi #186, and its various sounds
• I don't know, but I like basically the whole album.

This is Thinner thn098. Thinner is a netlabel that I like quite a bit - they have a helpful website and a number of good releases (which look like mostly ambient to me). All the releases I've seen are free under Creative Commons and have funky morphing Flash-animations for album artwork, artist information and links to pages elsewhere for the same artist. Like kahvi, any albums I post to Thinner will probably have a full download available.

• Thinner #098: krill minima - urlaub auf balkonien
• Very ambient and minimal, pretty gentle, not very beat-driven but has some rhythm
• I'm not normally a fan of ambient, but this did give me some visions (mostly geometric)

• Focusing more on percussion, closest to house (progressive?), dance-ish, sorta laid-back
• What's the opposite of abstract and atmospheric?
• This first song is a bit lame with the universe-questions

• Fast-paced, upbeat, driven, almost frantic
• Not house, not techno, not quite trance either

• Solemn, less beat-driven, kinda mysterious?
• Almost like ambient, but not dream or chillout

I think I vaguely remember this track being good and pretty unique. This artist also has no shortage of music on ctgmusic, so I should go check it out again.

• Full of good transitions and layering
• Standard trance, I suppose, but very good

• Where to get it: Here at ctgmusic

• For being drum & bass, this has more of a dream sound
• This reminds me of some kahvi stuff, as it's lighter

• Ambient, slow, controlled
• Beat-oriented but not driven
• Methodical? Melodic?

• Kinda beat-driven; flows pretty well
• Minimalistic

• "Subterreanean" is good... beat is heavy but not fast.
• Atmospheric, layered
• Very good.

People are open. Their groups are open.

It's a difference between being pushed away from people constantly, and being pushed toward them, so one does not constantly need to fight back against the repulsion.

We were repairing Connie's house; this photo has Andy (one of the crew leaders), Connie, and Heather (Connie's daughter)

More progress on the deck

Random cat that would hang around

Crate of Ale-8-One donated by someone whose name I forget

Pastries which Andy took a lot of time preparing for breakfast

Discovered that while both my managers described the intern who had just left as essentially clueless, she had decorated the cubicle in interesting tiny artworks made with post-its and highlighter, like this:

1. Was told I needed to cut my hair, which is true
2. Heard the random Canadian guy comment about all the snake-handling that he thinks goes on in Appalachia (and the venom from those snakes, he claims, is from female brain cells)
3. Was mistaken for someone who cared during some discussion about why baseball and the Cincinnati Enquirer suck
4. Read The Democratization of the Music Industry by Jeff Price
5. Read about TuneCore of which Jeff Price is the CEO... it would be more interesting to me if I actually created any music to sell on it
6. Read about gizmo which my friend described as like Skype, but better.
7. Basically nothing

• I had a song by this artist from 2005.08.13 (from Interconnected MusicMedia, now known as SoundLift) which I never really listened to... but finally got around to listening to, and I found the artist is still around and writing songs.
• His personal site is here. His albums are available online under the Creative Commons. He also has a decent collection of digital pictures, some videos, and slide shows.
• His description of the music: "...electro genre (Instrumental Music) with frequent use of electric guitar and Instrumental Lullabies for kids and adults in electro ambient genre. My music philosophy is that music should be relaxing and not burdening to the listener."    . . . basically lines up with how I'd describe it.
• I've listened to "Moderato" and "May" so far, but a few other albums are there as well.

• http://www.ucsusa.org - Union of Concerned Scientists
• Study: Unskilled and Unaware of It - some notable paper
• Ig Nobel Prize - "Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK"
• Talking Points Memo - I don't know why I wrote this
• Analog Devices - Blackfin - 16/32-bit embedded core, 10-stage RISC MCU/DSP pipeline, full SIMD support
• Analog Devices - SHARC - floating-point DSP
• Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations - some article from EFF

• "Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn From the Past" - Lloyd Gardner, Marilyn Young (Amazon)
• Open Media Now! foundation - has the goal of open media infrastructure; apparently the same guys who made Gnash
• Ohio InfoSec
• "The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements" - Eric Hoffer; published in 1951, discusses the psychological causes of fanaticism (Amazon)
• IBM Power6 at 4.7 GHz benchmarks

• "True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society" - Farhad Manjoo (Amazon) - in a way, a more factual approach to people judging by "truthiness" rather than truth
• "Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think" - George Lakoff (Amazon) - who knows, might be interesting

• People that some guy labeled as "hard left": Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klei
• Artist that I like who appears to have not released any songs in 2 years: John Schmidt (CNet Music Library)
• Some other artist I also marked as liking despite the generic name: Digital Trance (Dance-Industries)
• Artist I don't particularly like, but who has had songs in my collection for 4 years for some reason: Eye Candy (personal site)
• One that I liked for being "ambient, pretty soothing + flowing": Organic Frequencies (CNet Music Library)
• Some artist that I like for similar reasons: Rec.Hat (Myspace, CNet Music Library)

• Glenn Greenwald (Wikipedia entry) - apparently wrote some interesting books, criticized the corporate media, and so on.
• Economic Mobility Project - "The Economic Mobility Project is a unique nonpartisan collaboration...blahblahblah... Our purpose is to provoke a more rigorous discussion about economic mobility in America by presenting new findings and research, and analyzing the effects of social, economic and human capital factors that may impact one’s ability to move up the economic ladder over a generation."
• Another netlabel I like some music on: Rohformat (and I was listening to "flight of birds" by ronin, which I'd link to but the site is down right now)
• Artist which makes me most sad to find he has not released anything in years: LMK (CNet Music Library)

• Decent album by Easily Embarassed: Darkened Emotion EP (free download courtesy of Cardamar Music)... I wrote "electronic, flows pretty well, beat-oriented"
• From the same source, "Another Day in the Clouds" mixed by Cardamar is good; it's available at their mixes page . . . I wrote "gentle, ambient, soothing"

• More artists: Windcheater (Beatpick, Myspace)
• Beatpick, apparently, is a service that offers DRM-free music under the Creative Commons, allows people to license the music, splits profits 50/50 with the artist, allow free non-commercial use, etc.
• Another artist, also of the house genre: Zeropage (personal site, DMusic, and SoundLift for the tracks I originally had from 2005).
• Another artist, this one more of the trance genre: Edzes, or Andreas Bruvoll Skaarung (CTG Music)
• An ambient artist that I think I like: Art of Infinity (personal site, Myspace). The place I originally found him (Interconnected Musicmedia, now SoundLift) no longer has his page, but he appears to be thriving without it.

• arbaro: tree generation for POV-Ray as described in "Creation and Rendering of Realistic Trees"
• Bliss intellivision emulator
• DarkPlaces: modified Quake engine that, for me at least, works a bit better on modern hardware and OSes than the original
• Flock: "the social web browser", or, the browser that I used to use because it allowed me to do bulk uploads to Photobucket. It appears to now support a lot more, with regard to interaction with online social networks.
• knotplot: plots knots... or, visualizes knots from a mathematical perspective.
• Nosefart: Nintendo Music Player which handles NSF files from NES games.
• ScummVM: multiplatform VM to play old adventure games, such as from LucasArts (I am probably completely butchering these terms), provided you have their data files. Beneath a Steel Sky is one such game, now available as freeware, apparently of the cyberpunk genre.
• Namazu: full-text search engine, as in a piece of software that you can install on your own servers if you wish
• Art of Illusion: "Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio. It is written entirely in Java..." . . . I've used it to make 3D meshes for POV-Ray and it works quite well for being written in Java.

• Reaktor diary: might be helpful as I learn to use Reaktor
• Despite that this program is not open source but proprietary, it offers more comprehensible insight into its workings than any of the open source synth software I have tried so far.
• Given, I've only used a couple premade instruments, but their internal structure is out-in-the-open in the form of modules, not as blocks of code that I would have a hard time finding and a harder time comprehending.

• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse: "A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and (about a dozen schools).... Chilling Effects aims to help you understand the protections that the First Amendment and intellectual property laws give to your online activities."
• Linux Softpedia - EDA: looks like a good collection of Electronic Design Automation software for Linux
• Signs (or here): "a tool for logic synthesis and gate level simulation... include synthesis of RTL-style VHDL circuit descriptions and a dynamic graphical netlist viewer..."
• KTechLab: "...an Open Source Intergated Design Environment (IDE) for electronic and PIC microcontroller circuit design and simulation."
• Alliance CAD: "a complete set of free CAD tools and portable libraries for VLSI design... includes a VHDL compiler and simulator, logic synthesis tools, and automatic place and route tools."
• Octeon Plus - some chip, 4 to 16 MIPS64 core, 600-1000 MHz, 15-40W power usage... looks pretty fast (Linuxdevices link)
• Helpful link about silkscreening/screenprinting from nomediakings.org

• "This Film is Not Yet Rated" (IMDB) - some movie my friend Adam recommended; looks like the full version is online, for now, at Google Videos
• Univ. of Manchester, Advanced Processor Tech. Group - good link for some software projects and papers relevant to processors
• "In Defense of Lost Causes" - Slavoj Zizek (Amazon)... maybe an interesting book from a "Slovene sociologist, philosopher, and cultural critic." who describes himself as a Marxist
• "Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe" - Arianna Huffington (Amazon) . . . just in case you needed more anti-conservative propaganda
• Past public lectures from Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics are available here (though videos look like mostly Windows Media Player or Flash).
• SIMH: software from the Computer History Simulation Project, able to simulate (not emulate?) a variety of rather old hardware, like the DEC PDP

• Excerpts from Einstein's letter to Eric Gutkind on 1954-01-03 - expresses some of his views on religion pretty well... apparently lining up a bit with the "Deus sive nature" views of Spinoza
• Reconfigurable computing... worth learning about.
• Microcode... also worth learning about, particularly with x86
• FpgaC: "FpgaC compiles a subset of the C language to net lists which can be imported into an FPGA vendors tool chains... excellent alternative to VHDL/Verilog for algorithmic expression of FPGA reconfigurable computing tasks." . . . like an HLL rather than an HDL.
• Atmel FPSLIC: AVR microcontroller and SRAM-based FPGA combined on one die
• Achronix: FPGAs running up to around 2 GHz
• OpenCores: Designs and publishes core designs (for FPGAs, CPLDs, ASICs in general) under a license based on the LGPL
• OpenFPGA: Promote FPGAs in blahblahblah by trying to have open standards and information and practices
• Pragmatic Marketing: I dunno, but I've read a few useful links here

• "Commonwealth - Economics for a Crowded Planet" - Jeff Sachs (link at marginalrevolution.com)

• "Exposing the Modern Racist Paradigm," extremely long page here
• Someone's opinions on why the Amiga is awesome, here . . . meaningful to me because I haven't used an Amiga
• Simputer - "self-contained, open hardware handheld computer, designed for use in environments where computing devices such as personal computers are deemed inappropriate." (quoth wikipedia)... 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 about the memristor, and why it's the 4th circuit element, and why he thinks it's useful/revolutionary.
• Reversible computing . . . worthy of consideration

• Intel Atom D945GCLF motherboard from Tranquil PC Ltd. - $82 for motherboard with 1.60 GHz Atom 230; looks like a pretty good deal
• OLPC XO 2.0 - 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 - good resource on mobile/handheld/rugged computing products

• Lulu - 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 - because someone's pissed about how people constantly mangle what Adam Smith said

• Digilent Inc. - Offers some inexpensive starter boards with Xilinx Spartan FPGAs or Atmel AVR microcontrollers
• Xtreme Data, Inc. - "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 - 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 - "Low Budget, Open Source, VGA Compatible video card"
• FPGA Central - Good resource for FPGA links

• Llamasoft Blog - From the maker of one of my favorite games, Llamatron. He has written some interesting software.
• JavaSpaces - distributed shared memory in Java, along with other stuff, and part of Jini from Sun. This could be neat if I actually used Java.
• VX32 - "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 (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

• "Common Lisp, Typing, and Mathematics" by Francis Sergereart - good (long) paper about one application of Common Lisp; Postscript here
• "Getting Started With LaTeX", David R. Wilkins - here

• AT&T Graphviz - very very useful program for visualization of directed and undirected graphs

• Croquet (from the Croquet Project, not to be confused with the Croquet Consortium) - by my description, an attempt to extend the original 2-dimensional paradigm for a GUI into 3 dimensions; by their description, "Croquet is a powerful new open source software development environment and software infrastructure for creating and deploying deeply collaborative multi-user online applications and metaverses on and across multiple operating systems and devices."... I think it's an interesting project, anyhow. Check out some of the papers Alan Kay helped write, and look at some of the videos.

• JGraph - some sort of graphing and visualization software, open-source and written in Java
• Ploticus - more graphing and visualization, not as shiny as JGraph, but not Java either; apparently good for on-the-fly graph generation, for websites and such
• TeXmacs - " GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists."... it puts Mathematica's rendering to shame.

• Very useful link for using matrices in POV-Ray
• Media and Particle Systems in POV-Ray, here
• Photons & caustics in POV-Ray, here

• "Weaving the Web", Tim Berners-Lee - "The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web, by its inventor."

• Grasshopper Enterprises, "Borders of science, boundaries of imagination," might be complete and total bullshit, but the page has some interesting things on lucid dreaming and other workings of the mind

• cachegrind - cache profiler, part of the valgrind suite, designed to pinpoint cache misses in code
• I don't know why, but I wrote down "BDI2000 JTAG", maybe because the Abatron BDI-2000 can be used to debug the Linux kernel via JTAG?

• "The Grand Inquisitor" from "The Brothers Karamazov" by Fyodor Dostoevsky  -  I think I'm supposed to read this because I don't know why else I'd have written it down.

• Voyage Linux - Debian-based distro, designed for embedded systems, like Soekris boards; it is suitable as a WAP, firewall, gateway, NAS, etc.
• IPv6 Tunnel Broker - reach IPv6 internet freely by tunneling over existing IPv4 connections, courtesy of Hurricane Electric Internet Services
• The Honeynet Project - goal is to increase the security of the Internet by "learning the tools, tactics, and motives involved in computer and network attacks, and sharing the lessons learned"
• "Links to Tens of Thousands of Legal Music Downloads"
• "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" by Bruce Sterling; available here as "literary freeware"
• "The War on the Unexpected" by Bruce Schneier

• http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/ - helpful web applet for figuring out chords and scales and numerous other things about which I am clueless but trying to learn

• Seen on a bumper sticker on a semi truck: http://www.headsneedtoroll.org/ . . . looks to have a pretty good stated mission
• Vote Apathy Party 08 because at least I'm honest.
• Just discovered Utah Phillips upon hearing an interview with him after his death on May 23
• "Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine On Trial" by Simon Singh (Amazon)

• For some "brilliant" explanations of why most science is completely wrong, Louis Savain's site is a good reference
• You can score the site on The crackpot index by John Baez ("A simple method for rating potentially revolutionary contributions to physics")
• The Join-Calculus from INRIA in France - "...a process calculus. It provides a simple support for distributed programming."
• JoCaml from the same place; basically Objective Caml plus Join-Calculus
• INRIA also made SciLab which is quite useful as a free tool for numerical computation, particularly if you hate MATLAB.
• uClinux - embedded Linux/Microcontroller project, for MMU-less systems... website is very slow as of late for some reason
• ELKS (Embeddable Linux Kernel Subset) - in case you really want to run a subset of Linux on an Intel 8086, 8088, 80186, 80188, 80286, 386 in V86 mode, or Psion SIBO
• JLime - Jornada Linux Mobility Edition, which runs quite well on some HP Jornadas, like the 680, which is good in cases like mine when the included WinCE is one giant pile of fail

• Red Hill Technology - decent articles pertaining a lot to old x86 hardware
• TRIPS (utexas again) - "developing a new class of technology-scalable, power efficient, high-performance microprocessor architectures called EDGE (Explicit Data Graph Execution) architectures." and I've got at least one technical paper that's been on my computer for over a year that I've put off reading somehow

• Xournal - " Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus."; open source, of course, and maybe I can make it run on my Jornada
• OPIE - Open Palmtop Integrated Environment... some sort of interface for smaller devices; I tried it on my Jornada and found it uselessly slow, but kinda neat
• GPE - GPE Palmtop Environment, which might be a better option than OPI
• BlenderCAD - "a Blender script created with the aim of expand the functionality of Blender, so that it could be used for the Computer Aided Drawing." ...haven't tried it but it might be worth it
• GNU Radio - the GNU software radio; can be combined with minimal hardware (like the USRP) "allows the construction of radios where the actual waveforms transmitted and received are defined by software," which is probably a good way to totally piss off the FCC

• "Tainting Evidence: Inside The Scandals At The FBI Crime Lab" by JF Kelly and PK Wearne (Amazon)
• "Confessions of a Record Producer - How to Survive the Scams and Shams of the Music Business" by Moses Avalon (Amazon)
• "Rainbow Painting: A Collection of Miscellaneous Aspects of Development and Completion" by Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche (Amazon) - was recommended very highly by a program I listened to, related to Buddhism and meditation

• The Memory Hole [rescuing knowledge, freeing information] - "The Memory Hole exists to preserve and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not widely known.... The emphasis is on material that exposes things that we're not supposed to know (or that we're supposed to forget)."
• Cryptome - "Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance -- open, secret and classified documents -- but not limited to those."

• Meetup - 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 by Andrew Kantor  (or this PDF) - very informative and helpful to know
• The Photographer's Right 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)
• Local indie band, "Bad Veins" - 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

• The Ruckus Society - "provides environmental, human rights, and social justice organizers with the tools, training, and support needed to achieve their goals."
• Free Press - nonpartisan organization working for media reform
• "The New Media Monopoly" by Ben H. Bagdikian (Amazon)
• Daily Kos - "State of the Nation",

• Arduino - "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 - "Free Hardware Design Resources for the Free Software Community" though looks slightly dead
• 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 - apparently implements some computer called the MSX, and does it using an Altera FPGA... I don't know
• Hypercomputing HC-62 - just some ridiculously fast computer with 36 GB of RAM and eleven FPGAs
• Holografika - true 3D holographic display, visible with naked eye, so the site claims (and has videos to show)
• Astak Mentor 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 looks to have better specs and it is Linux-based, however it's also $600-$700 (but it's actually for sale)
• Graphics Gems by Andrew Glassner - a set of books I should probably read eventually so I stop reinventing the wheel every time I program anything

• serdisplib - library to drive serial displays with built-in controllers (like the Optrex LCDs I messed around with at work)
• ACML (AMD Core Math Library) - heavily optimized routines for LAPACK, BLAS, FFT, transcendental & random number generation, utilizing SIMD instructions available on AMD CPU
• Similar - SIMDx86 - optimized SIMD library for x86 (I don't think it does x86-64)
• FBReader - ebook reader for Linux/Windows, intended for portable devices. Handles Plucker which I found really useful on Palm
• sdtcon - "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 - free, portable, open source, mini realtime kernel for embedded systems, like ARM7, ARM9, Cortex-M3, MSP430, MicroBlaze
• DjVu - 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 - from 1998 but still pretty relevant
• DSP DesignLine - lots of useful articles and technical papers about programming for DSPs (such as this one about Programming and Optimizing C Code)

• http://www.ucapps.de/ - "Non-commercial DIY Projects for MIDI Hardware Geeks"
• http://midibox.org/ - Looks like a blog about various other MIDI-related DIY projects
• Nvidia Tegra -  "features a GPU, media processor, system memory, peripherals and a CPU all in one ultra-low power chip, smaller than a US dime (10-cent piece)."
• Ethernet Mini Board

• An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (William Kahan)
• Numerical Workbenches, pt. III (Christoph Spiel) - plotting in GNU Octave, Scilab, and Tela
• Scilab lecture notes from University of Pune
• Basics of Scilab Control Toolbox
• freemind - "is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java."... I could probably benefit a lot by using this properly.
• Art of Illusion by Peter Eastman - "Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio." . . . looks very powerful and capable; another manual here
• xpra - "persistent remote applications" for X; think like GNU Screen, or like a remote application rather than a remote desktop
• Scale - Scalable Compiler for Analytical Experiments; right now, a research/instructional compiler (open source, Java) used mainly for generating code for the TRIPS architecture
• raw Architecture Workstation - project at MIT for "simple, wire-efficient multicore architecture that scales with increasing VLSI gate densities"... tiled, multicore, highly parallel
• Sun Labs Lively Kernel - positioned as a Flash alternative for the iPhone, for instance (interview with creator Dan Ingalls here)
• The Sentinel - old computer game that was notable for generating its levels procedurally
• .kkrieger - procedural generation taken to an extreme, from .theprodukkt

• MoBo Bicycle Coop - "The MoBo Bicycle Co-op is a non-profit, volunteer-run collective dedicated to providing every member of the Tri-State area access to bicycles, maintenance, and education." (also Myspace site)
• AskWish -
• Hegelian dialectic - remind me to read this in detail and find why it pertains to politics

• Owner-free Filesystem - "distributed filesystem in which everything is stored in reference to randomized data blocks" and bound to be soon pissing off a legal system near you
• What Colour are your bits? - relevant to intellectual property somehow but I haven't read it yet.
• Traffic Waves - "sometimes one driver can vastly improve traffic."
• "Big and Bad" - Malcolm Gladwell's opinions of SUVs and their marketing. (same Malcolm Gladwell who wrote Tipping Point though I didn't make this connection when I read the article)

• http://www.tonychor.com/archive/000443.html . . . I now know that it's better to cook bacon in the oven.
• Jewish Purist's Bagels

• Chai recipe I tried
• Using fresh and ground ginger - which I looked up because I had a lot of ginger root left over than just the 1/4" that I used for the chai
• Wikibooks cookbook - I don't know much of what else is on it, but my recipe for hardtack came from here.
• Stuff to do with cloves which doesn't really belong here because these are mostly medicinal uses

• The Future Freaks Me Out - album from a band my friend Shannon likes
• Jamglue - remixing for the masses... I haven't looked at it in much detail. but Corina uses it
• John Walsh - local (as in Cincinnati) punk/hardcore band that Joc likes
• The Seedy Seeds (and also here on Myspace) - another local band (electronica?) that Joc likes

• Dafont - site full of categorized fonts for download (free for personal use)

• Paul Ekman, "cutting edge behavorial science for real world applications" with some downloadable articles
• The Silent Language and The Hidden Dimension by Edward T. Hall . . . pertains to non-verbal communication and emotions
• Mentioned by Meredith and probably directed to a female audience but maybe still worth a look: Memory Keeper's Daughter and The Fall of a Sparrow and The Picture of Dorian Grey and some books by an "up and author" Emily Giffin: Something Blue, Something Borrowed, and Love the One You're With
• Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
• Like this one about how Science should find a way to make farts smell better.

• Joc showed me this: Freecycle - "It's a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all about reuse and keeping good stuff out of landfills."
• The Problem with Music by Steve Albini
• Courtney Love's commentary on record label profits, Napster, music, and piracy
• Order of Death on Youtube - someone told me I should watch it. I haven't yet. There's a high chance it's complete BS.

• Bart's way to create bootable CDs - very handy
• Squeak - VM (open source) implementing Smalltalk  (this FLOSS Weekly talks about it)
• Seaside - "framework for developing sophisticated web applications in Smalltalk"  (this FLOSS Weekly talks about it as well)
• Squeak by Example - pretty good book (available as a PDF for free, or as a printed copy from lulu.com for $20.10)
• Early History of Smalltalk by Alan Kay - it is from 1993, but is still a very in-depth paper
• Smalltalk: Getting the Message - article more focused on the "why" and "how" of Smalltalk than its history
• SliTaz - a Linux distro designed to run out of RAM and still have a usable desktop; current version is only about 25 MB
• Rocks Clusters - a CentOS-based Linux distro designed to make building and managing clusters a lot easier (mentioned in this FLOSS Weekly)
• Webconverger - "open source web kiosk", or basically a Linux distro designed to boot quickly into Firefox
• VR Juggler Suite - some sort of open source virtual reality suite
• Englab - open source mathematical platform, similar to MATLAB, in very early versions right now
• Quotes about C and C++ and Programming Quotes which are mostly good for being funny rather than useful, or for pissing people off

• Making a solar baker from an abandoned satellite dish
• LyngSat - free satellite channels to receive, in case you wanted something else to do with that satellite dish
• Journal from evilviper on Slashdot, also about FTA satellite reception
• Atmel AVR ATmega16 / ATmega32 programmer - needs parallel port and ATmega16
• Really simple AVR ISP programmer for ATmega128 - uses just parallel port and a few resistors

• Loongson - general-purpose CPU made at Chinese Academy of Sciences; MIPS-compatible and used in some small devices like this

• 3D holographic display at USC (uses projector + rapidly rotating mirror)
• Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys  -  research from Princeton about how information can be recovered from memory after a system is powered off, and how to utilize this to defeat most encryption systems because they leave their keys in memory.

• FIFE engine - open source 2D engine designed for isometric and top-down views
• XGameStation video game development kit - looks like they have various kits for programming games, old-school style, and a lot of user-submitted programs

• Kaskade - House/electronica artist I came across many times on imeem... was good for calming me down while doing homework
• "5th & Avenida" by Afterlife - an ambient track I liked... it's on "Café del Mar, Volumen Cuatro" (Amazon)
• "100 Billion Stars" by Lux - another ambient track I liked, from "Cafe del Mar, Volume 8" (Amazon)
• "Alive" by Mads Arp with Julie Harrington - yet another, from "Cafe del Mar Dreams, Vol. 4"  (Amazon)
• Cafe del Mar, since I didn't realize all those songs came from the same set of albums until I looked them up

• The Black Beast - my friend Jessica made this flourless cake and it's pretty supremely awesome

• "The Limits of Quantum Computers" by Scott Aaronson (draft) - or, why articles professing how quantum computers can do anything are complete bullshit
• Rendering for an Interactive 360-degree Light Field Display
• From RenewableEnergyWorld: More efficient way to convert waste heat to electricity, from research at Ohio State University
• arxiv draft - Funky chemical bonding that happens at very high pressures (officially, "Tetrahedral clustering in molten lithium under pressure")

• "In Debt We Trust" by Danny Schechter - film about the national and personal debt crisis in the US (trailer here)
• "If This Is a Man" by Primo Levi - novel by an Italian author, inspired by his time in Auschwitz during WW2
• "No Tech Hacking" by Johnny Long (Amazon) - "A guide to social engineering, dumpster diving, and shoulder surfing."
• "Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow - novel, available freely online if you so desire

• Papers about Self and OO - I haven't read any of these, but I should
• Bad Mojo - some pretty well-reviewed adventure/puzzle game from 1996 which happens to run on DOS/Windows/Mac
• The not-so-short introduction to LaTeX 2e - PDF about LaTeX
• Kile - integrated LaTeX environment
• XeTeX - a merging of TeX with Unicode and modern font technologies
• Apache FOP - "print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter." from the Apache XML Graphics Project
• Hercules 390 - The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator... incidentally, TRON Guy is in charge of the project
• The LiveCD List from FrozenTech - Table of info about Linux distros available as LiveCDs
• INSERT - the Inside Security Rescue Toolkit, a Linux distro that comes with various tools for rescue and recovery; it's a 60 MB download so it works well as a LiveCD or USB-stick
• Open64 - the Open Research Compiler, used originally on Itanium and now on Nvidia CUDA; it is under GPL
• BrookGPU - "Brook for GPUs is a compiler and runtime implementation of the Brook stream program language for modern graphics hardware."
• OpenCL - "a language for programming heterogeneous data and task parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs."; initial implementation is on LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) and clang

• LM317 - According to Cowclops, this variable linear voltage regulator can be a good way to limit current and voltage for charging an SLA.
• JOP: A Tiny Java Processor - A hardware implementation of the Java Virtual Machine; it can be put onto a low-cost FPGA, so the site claims, with the VHDL source (which is GPLed)
• OpenPCD - Open RFID Reader for 13.56 MHz; site provides the schematic, PCB layout, Gerber files, bill of material, and some software
• OPEX - A "Unique Operating System" for the AVR microcontroller
• Use, Abuse, and Misuse of Amplifiers by Bob Pease - online seminar from National Semiconductor (or "webinar" if you prefer... which I don't); beware, page is quite large
• Operational amplifier usage (also from National Semiconductor)... handy for stuff to do with op amps.

• The Roommate Files - This will put to shame any story you have about bad roommates.

• Uberman's Sleep Schedule if you are insane enough and need the extra time
• Live Longer: The One Anti-Aging Trick that Works (no, "live longer" is not the trick, it's caloric restriction)
• How Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter
• Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind
• Collected Writing of Don DeGracia - pertains to lucid dreams & astral projection. I originally found his writings on a BBS in about 1999, and the files I found were from Compuserve in 1994. Wow.
• Software for binaural beating: binaural, sbagen, AutoZen

• Corporate Swine - certain companies, and why they suck.
• They Rule - "They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class." The page is almost all Flash-based, but given its interface I don't see how else it could have been done. Check it out.
• SaveNetRadio

• The cottage cheese page - more things to make with cottage cheese than I thought was possible
• Kalyn's Kitchen - a blog with lots of colorful pictures... oh, and recipes

• Netlabels collection at Internet Archive; "This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of 'virtual record labels'."
• Discogs - lots of information on music from obscure labels and artists
• Tangerine Dream - I wrote this band down in 2005 and I haven't listened to them yet
• "My Freedom" by Beat Foundation - yet another ambient (or chillout?) track I liked, from Cafe Del Mar: Ibiza vol. 3 (Amazon)

• "Mysterious Stranger" by Mark Twain
• and a very creepy claymation version here
• "The War Prayer" also by Mark Twain

• SynDEx from INRIA - "a system level CAD software based on the "algorithm- architecture adequation" (AAA) methodology, for rapid prototyping and optimizing the implementation of distributed real-time embedded applications onto "multicomponent" architectures."
• Data visualization tools for Linux - covers GnuPlot, Octave, Scilab, MayaVi, Maxima, OpenDX
• gnuplot tips & not so frequently asked questions
• memcached - "a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load."
• BeOS bootdisk collection which I have no idea if I'll ever use but here it is
• Thesis paper from Mark Samuel Miller (Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control)
• Another thesis paper, by D. P. Reed (Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System)
• P2P-Radio - Internet radio distributed via peer-to-peer means
• PGP Digital Timestamping Service
• Manent - algorithmically strong backup and archival program
• DSPACE - an open source solution for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works

• Project Looking Glass from Sun Microsystems
• Videos of Croquet from Croquet Consortium
• LaTeX Beamer Class - something for making presentations in LaTeX
• http://www.visualcube.org/ - 3D volumetric display with 6x6x6 voxels

• More FPGA stuff - Xilinx USB/Parallel JTAG cables on Linux without proprietary kernel modules
• OpenOCD - Open on-chip debugger, ISP, boundary scan
• Objective C & programming musics at another wordpress blog
• GNUstep mini tutorials
• Implementing an Interpreter; or, Going Fast Without Writing Code - good presentation on the Parrot Virtual Machine
• Perl 6 and the Parrot Virtual Machine
• Ken Silverman's voxel engine with source code available

• On the Thesis that X is Big/Bloated/Obsolete and Should Be Replaced because I've heard that too many times
• BSD vs. Linux
• "He Who Controls the Bootloader" by Scot Hacker (it's from 2001)
• Essay by Jean-Louis Gassee (of BeOS fame) on why PC makers don't sell non-MS stuff
• Article on a similar matter

• Interview with Wendell Hicken, creator of Scorched Earth which is only one of my favorite games ever
• Outcast - some voxel-based engine that was very well-done, apparently

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service - good collection of papers and resources from the DOJ
• Secrecy News - "Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy", FAS=Federation of American Scientists
• Stanford Engineering Everywhere - free online courses from Stanford in CS, AI, and Linear Systems & Optimization; includes transcripts and video lectures
• "Life Incorporated" by Doug Rushkoff, or "How We Traded Meaning for Markets, Society for Self Interest, and Citizenship for Customer Service."
• "Fooled by Randomness" by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, or "The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets"

• Creating DjVu documents in Linux howto
• Kicad libraries converted from EAGLE
• pfSense - "free, open source customized distribution of FreeBSD tailored for use as a firewall and router."
• How to apply color curves in ImageMagick - came in handy for optimizing files from massive numbers of scans before DjVu conversion
• Internetworking Technology Handbook from Cisco - lots of freely available guides
• FreeMind - a free mind-mapping program written in Java. I haven't used it much yet, but it looks really useful.
• Mathesaurus - quick reference for switching to open-source mathematical computation environments for computer algebra, numeric processing and data visualisation (e.g. MATLAB to Octave/SciLab/Python+Numpy)
• Advice in Mini-ITX - mailing list conversation
• KolibriOS - OS for x86 written in assembly; runs on one floppy; a fork of MenuetOS. This runs well in VirtualBox.

• Future Crew - Second Reality - very impressive demo from 1993 (actual program for DOS here)
• ChibiTracker - portable Impulse Tracker clone (i.e. "a small, compact music composing application that is easy to learn and powerful enough to sound good"); GPLed and runs on Windows, Linux, MacOS, BSD, and BeOS
• Map of Science - trying to visualize connections between various sciences... Flash-based and interactive and kinda neat

• 10 Steps to Becoming Enlightened (yeah, slightly lofty title)
• List of Fallacious Arguments
• 38 Ways to Win an Argument - from Schopenhauer's "The Art of Controversy" (which can be found here)
• The Happiness Project - read about this in Citybeat; "I recount some of my adventures and insights as I grapple with the challenge of being happier," from an author before the release of her book by the same name in late 2009.
• Intelius - People search, free and apparently pretty good

• Major Writings of Nichiron Daishonin

• http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/powersaving.html - "Saving Energy in Linux" from Spencer Stirling
• PowerTOP - tool to assist with such energy-saving (on Intel boxes at least) by telling how well hardware power-saving is utilized and which software is causing problems
• Improving Boot Time on a General Linux Distro from Frederic Crozat
• Handy One-Liners for sed from Eric Pement... I used the venerable sed extensively at work to un-screw-up CSV files
• MediaTomb - an open source UPnP media server with a web interface; my coworker Uriah said he used this to stream things to his PS3 from his Linux box

• MeshLab - free 3D triangular mesh processing software
• Caustics Mapping from UCF

• A Look at NoMachine NX - I discovered NX performs better for remote access than anything else I've tried (i.e. RDP, X11, VNC, and straight SSH+screen if you happen to need GUI), particularly over slow links. Unfortunately, it doesn't handle links with 93% packet loss very well.
• Quagga Routing Suite - GPLed routing software for IPv4/IPv6 that handles a number of routing-related protocols (a list of them is here)
• Yersinia - network tool designed to take advantage of some weaknesses in different network protocols... I haven't used this but the guys from cinci2600 did a presentation with it
• Etherboot/gPXE booting - an open source network bootloader, providing a direct replacement for many proprietary PXE ROMs. I have yet to try this.
• LTSP, Linux Terminal Server Project - adds thin-client support to Linux servers, so thin clients or dumpster PCs can be used for something useful within a school or business.

• "Roles Before Objects" by Doug Lea - some sort of pattern for software development, particularly for "organizing activities that separate object-independent from object-dependent matters"
• "10 Amazingly Alternative Operating Systems etc." - maybe overly prophetic and lofty, but a good article nonetheless
• Twibright Optar - OPTical ARchiver, a codec for encoding data on paper; it gets about 200 KB per page at 200 DPI which is reliable for most paper, and contains some pretty heavy error correction. This might be neat for long-term archival purposes of smaller data.

• MAgtALo (MultiAgent Argumentation, Logic and Opinion) - a prototype tool for virtual round-table meetings. I don't really know much about this. I just read about it in some IEEE publication I found on the ground.
• LibriVox - free audiobooks from the public domain
• Geographic British Isles - a project aiming to collect geographically representative photographs of every square kilometer of Great Britain and Ireland

• "High Voltage Sparks and Arcs" - My friend Mark found this, and it has a collection of videos and photos of some pretty spectacular incidents at high voltages. The only casualties are machines, if you are worried.
• How Transistors REALLY Work, from William Beaty who is annoyed at the way many textbooks teach transistors to students

• Lunar - an artist Jeremy likes, self-described as "An eclectic blend of electronica, rock, dance, ambient, drum 'n' bass and classical." They have two albums available for free download as of now.

• Money Masters: How International Bankers Gained Control of America (Google Video link)... I don't know what to think of this, but I did watch it.
• Maltego: "Maltego is an open source intelligence and forensics application. It allows for the mining and gathering of information as well as the representation of this information in a meaningful way."

• "Where to put your money if it's just sitting in a checking account"
• ABSEL - Association for Business Simulation and Experiential Learning; "professional association whose purpose is to develop and promote the use of experiential techniques and simulations in the field of business education and development"
• M.U.L.E. - an early video game that was praised for its elements of economic simulation
• The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse, by Gregg Easterbrook (Amazon link)

• Anti-pattern - something that distinguishes itself from a conventional bad idea or bad practice in a particular way; "Some repeated pattern of action, process or structure that initially appears to be beneficial, but ultimately produces more bad consequences than beneficial results."

log

• Here is the first post made to my Wordpress in an automated way…
• I guess here is where I put "Hello, world" and for once it’s actually kind of accurate because the post is going where the world can see it.
• So, uh, Hello, world == log,graphics
• http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview (John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more)

log

• Here is the first post made to my Wordpress in an automated way…
• I guess here is where I put "Hello, world" and for once it’s actually kind of accurate because the post is going where the world can see it.
• So, uh, Hello, world

log,graphics

• http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview (John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more)

log

• Here is the first post made to my Wordpress in an automated way…
• I guess here is where I put "Hello, world" and for once it’s actually kind of accurate because the post is going where the world can see it.
• So, uh, Hello, world
• Well, damn, my program has a bug that makes it impossible to post more than one entry per day. It’s a very obvious bug, too.

log,graphics

• http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview (John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more)

log,graphics,links,blogs

• http://www.tanashabitat.com/ (Tana’s Habitat - a site Jane recommended for useful information about living on your own. It looks far more suited to her gender than to mine, but it still has some good advice.)

log,graphics,links,blogs,notes,technobabble

• Perl 6 has two main interpreters:
  • Rakudo Perl which uses Parrot VM and PGE
  • Pugs which uses Haskell (and Hugs or GHC)
• Stuff about Erlang I should remember:
  • shared-nothing, async message passing
  • single assignment
  • strict or eager evaluation (as compared to lazy evaluation like in Haskell)

log,graphics,links,blogs,notes,technobabble,books

• http://www.truly-free.org/ - The Burgomeister’s Books, a large library of ebooks; you have a borrowing quota but items are downloadable and in open formats

log

• Here is the first post made to my Wordpress in an automated way…
• I guess here is where I put "Hello, world" and for once it’s actually kind of accurate because the post is going where the world can see it.
• So, uh, Hello, world
• Well, damn, my program has a bug that makes it impossible to post more than one entry per day. It’s a very obvious bug, too.

log,graphics

• http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview (John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more)

log,graphics,links,blogs

• http://www.tanashabitat.com/ (Tana’s Habitat - a site Jane recommended for useful information about living on your own. It looks far more suited to her gender than to mine, but it still has some good advice.)

log,graphics,links,blogs,notes,technobabble

• Perl 6 has two main interpreters:
  • Rakudo Perl which uses Parrot VM and PGE
  • Pugs which uses Haskell (and Hugs or GHC)
• Stuff about Erlang I should remember:
  • shared-nothing, async message passing
  • single assignment
  • strict or eager evaluation (as compared to lazy evaluation like in Haskell)

log,graphics,links,blogs,notes,technobabble,books

• http://www.truly-free.org/ - The Burgomeister’s Books, a large library of ebooks; you have a borrowing quota but items are downloadable and in open formats
• http://www.storyofstuff.com - The story of stuff - a flash video Joc sent me; it’s kind of long

log

• Here is the umpteenth post made to my Wordpress in an automated way…
• I guess here is where I put "Hello, world" and for once it’s actually kind of accurate because the post is going where the world can see it.
• So, uh, Hello, world
• Did I fix my idiotic bugs yet?

graphics

• http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview (John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more)

links,blogs

• http://www.tanashabitat.com/ (Tana’s Habitat - a site Jane recommended for useful information about living on your own. It looks far more suited to her gender than to mine, but it still has some good advice.)

notes,technobabble

• Perl 6 has two main interpreters:
  • Rakudo Perl which uses Parrot VM and PGE
  • Pugs which uses Haskell (and Hugs or GHC)
• Stuff about Erlang I should remember:
  • shared-nothing, async message passing
  • single assignment
  • strict or eager evaluation (as compared to lazy evaluation like in Haskell)
• Stuff about Smalltalk I should remember:
  • "Messaging" is more important than "objects"

books

• The Burgomeister’s Books, a large library of ebooks; you have a borrowing quota but items are downloadable and in open formats
• The story of stuff, a flash video Joc sent me; it’s kind of long but worth the watch

comic

• This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow - a webcomic and blog I first came across in Citybeat, but came across by accident later

software

• Finnix, 'Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution ("LiveCD") for system administrators, based on Debian testing"; I came across this while looking at what common distros were out there for PowerPC since I recently acquired an iBook.
• Open64, the Open Research Compiler, "an open source, optimizing compiler for the Intel IA-64 (Itanium), AMD Opteron and Intel IA-32e architecture"
• GCC UPC - extensions to GCC to provide a compilation and execution environment for Unified Parallel C
  • "UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, including those with a common global address space (SMP and NUMA) and those with distributed memory (eg. clusters)."

local

• http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Cincinnati - Hackerspace wiki for the currently-under-heavy-development Cincinnati Hackerspace
  • Also http://cincinnatihackspace.wikispaces.com/

hardware

• Awesome MIPSy stuff:
  • Lemote Fulong miniPC (Linuxdevices story) - powered by a 666 MHz Loongson 2E
  • Rather similar to the $150 YellowSheepRiver "Municator" (Another Linuxdevices story) based on a 500 MHz 64-bit Godson-2
  • Lemote YeeLoong, a laptop with completely free software (including BIOS and firmware) and a power usage of about 12W, based on an 800 MHz Loongson 2F; Richard Stallman supposedly uses one of these

software,education

• Scratch: "Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills."

video

• Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog - I don’t know what this is but my friend Patrick tells me I should watch it.

log

• Well, after my computer exploded and my hard drive became an orphan, I finally built a working computer again and fixed up my scripts so they didn’t suck. Now I shall attempt to post the giant piles of stuff that have accumulated.

diy,links

• The Repair Manifesto from Platform 21 - worth thinking about.

motivational,practical

• Twelve Steps to Practical Problem Solving by Paul Polak
• No Nonsense Self-Defense - This is a helpful site. The author gives a vast collection of useful, well-informed articles about self-defense - and why too much of martial arts completely misses the point of it.

food,photography

• http://www.tastespotting.com/ - My friend Cassie sent me this link. In its own words: "Think of TasteSpotting as a highly visual potluck of recipes, references, experiences, stories, articles, products, and anything else that inspires exquisite taste."

game,geometry

• The eyeballing game - Another link from Cassie… it’s a Flash game that’s sort of interesting, related to one’s ability to eyeball something and tell if it’s straight
• Nomic Game - A paperwork table game that looks a bit complex to actually play. The object of the game is to change the rules of the game.

article

• The Score: How childbirth went industrial - An article in The New Yorker giving a (critical) opinion of why C-section is used so often. Interesting read.
• Perils of pop philosophy
  • Probably related to Dunning-Kruger effect - "…people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it"
• The Zen of Drinking Alone from Modern Drunkard Magazine. I can’t say I’ve ever heard of Modern Drunkard before, but this is a surprisingly cogent article about the value of… drinking alcohol alone, or "using alcohol to find your inner monkey".
• Well, more of an essay than an article… On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is something I should probably read at some point

music

• Jake Speed and the Freddies - just saw them at the Southgate House and was extremely impressed, despite that ordinarily I’d never listen to "folk blues" voluntarily.
• StumbleAudio - I don’t really know what this is. but I wrote it down, so maybe it’s good. "Guide to discovering music and sharing great new music."

technobabble,links

• http://www.cbkihong.com/index.pl?op=perltut - A tutorial on Perl from Bernard Chan that I found helpful

apps,linux

• http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/116353 - Article on Siag Office for those who don’t feel like using any remotely mainstream office applications

editor,cheatsheet

• http://www.viemu.com/vi-vim-cheat-sheet.gif - A Vim cheat sheet that is essential to me.

programming,scheme

• Is Scheme Faster than C? - An oldish article about some interesting performance benefits found in Scheme

hack,wii

• http://www.smoothboard.net/ - Interesting thing from my friend Lincoln. It uses a Wii remote, IR transmitter, and PC (with Bluetooth) to "Transform your screen into a user-friendly interactive whiteboard with Smoothboard."

video,apps

• MediaCoder - "a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution." Only natively works on Windows, but came in handy trying to re-encode some video at work after I found that fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/[Avidemux] liked to either crash or screw up the encode (on Windows at least as I know I’ve used it without problems on Linux)
• CamStudio - An open source screen recorder (screencast?) application. Only works on Windows, but works pretty well.

photography,apps

• http://www.linux.com/archive/feature/58887

music

• Saw these two at Rohs Street Cafe and was very impressed:
  • http://www.myspace.com/hickoryrobot
  • www.myspace.com/thehappymaladies

photography,rant

• http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/notcamera.htm - A page from Ken Rockwell, a photographer my uncle likes, called "Your Camera Doesn’t Matter"
• http://www.wikihow.com/Get-Up-and-Start-Taking-Photos

apps,photography

• So, I’m on a quest to find a photo organization tool for Linux (or, on a later note, for any OS) that does some things like…
  • Allow me to apply metadata to images, like comments and groups and tags (preferably hierarchical)
  • Store the metadata IN THE ACTUAL IMAGE, IN A STANDARD FORMAT. This also means it will probably need to support IPTC or XMP, preferably XMP. (No, shut up about GQview, it doesn’t cut it.)
  • Allow me to set metadata as a batch operation. I am thoroughly uninterested in having to manually go through the process of setting metadata for each individual image. And when I say "batch operation", "batch" really needs to be more generic than "all files in a directory." (No, shut up about scripting it with ExifTool or Exempi or Exiv2. Yes, they can edit XMP data on groups of files, but scripting doesn’t cut it as a solution unless someone can show me how to make this integrate with a GUI.)
• Here are the apps recommended thus far:
  • digiKam
  • F-Spot
  • imgSeek
  • Picasa
  • GQview
  • KPhotoAlbum
  • gThumb
  • GwenView
  • Mapivi
  • LightZone
  • Razuna
  • Lightroom
  • PicaJet FX
• And my responses thus far:
  • digiKam:
    • Has a pretty nice UI (though overdone sometimes)
    • The built-in editing features and plugins are handy and quick. I’m kind of cheating here because I’m already pretty familiar with digiKam.
    • Searching capabilities are pretty good.
    • Only wants to edit IPTC/XMP metadata one image at a time.
    • All its metadata (besides IPTC/XMP that you do one image at a time) is stored in an SQLite database, not in the image
    • Interface can get pretty slow sometimes.
  • imgSeek:
    • The interface works okay but it’s a little clumsy, and sometimes things are slow (I loaded about 10K pictures).
    • Finding pictures based on similarity to other pictures or to a hand-drawn image is an interesting feature.
    • The grouping/batching features are powerful, but a bit slow.
    • I am unsure if imgSeek lets me add IPTC or XMP data easily.
    • There is no easy way I can see to search based on date.
  • F-Spot:
    • I’m told the IPTC/XMP support in this isn’t that great.
    • I have yet to try this program.
  • LightZone:
    • This is proprietary, but they have a 30-day trial.
    • "Linux users will especially enjoy access to the new LightZone Relight Tool l which can achieve HDR effects from a single negative revealing hidden HDR detail in both the highlights and the shadows, using just a single exposure. For instance, you’ll see both saturated colors of a sunset and bright detail in the face of a back lit subject that was formerly lost. Achieving such stunning results from a single exposure without LightZone would require multiple flashes, reflectors and shades at the time the photograph — if it could be possible at all." . . . sorry, but if you honestly believe this, you don’t have the slightest understanding what HDR is. Oh well, it’s all marketing.
    • Having tried this software, I cannot see any batch metadata editing capability, or any reason why I’d want to pay for this.
  • PicaJet FX:
    • This is proprietary with a 15-day trial.
    • I tried this software and could not find any batch-editing features for XMP.
  • Lightroom
    • This is the expensive stuff from Adobe ($300, but there’s a 30-day trial). Some people in #photogeeks on Freenode recommended it.
    • This is a "workflow app designed for professional photographers" and it’s from Adobe. If anything at al supports XMP batch-editing, and a billion other features, this would have to be it.
  • Razuna
    • I don’t know. This is an open source, web-based Digital Asset Management application.
    • It looks very nice (check out the videos there), but I don’t think it’s whatI need for this task.
  • Any application I failed to mention: I either ignored it on the basis of provided specifications, or I ignored it because I’m just too lazy.

local,links

• Queen City Discovery - An interesting blog about urban exploration in Cincinnati that some guys in Hive13 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 (which does indeed acknowledge that this market exists).

programming

• 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 - Written in 1982 but still pretty true.

software

• Vanish: Self-Destructing Digital Data - Pretty clever.

video,books

• Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions? - A video of a talk from this guy, who’s also the author of the book Predictably Irrational (here? the www.predictablyirrational.com[offical website] looks gone)
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness ** Not sure why I wrote this down. I haven’t read it.
• the deliberate dumbing down of america by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt - I have not yet read this but it looks good. PDF is available here.

games

• Balance of Power - A geopolitics game by Chris Crawford (also with his interesting essay/article here).

lit,historical

• We the People Network - 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.

videos,paranoia

• Here and here - videos from Prof. James Duane and Officer George Bruch about why talking to the police is almost never a good idea.

software

• omploader - A place to upload files. It can also be done with a firefox extension or in a script.
• Paperback, from the OllyDbg guy. This lets you store data on paper (about 500 KB for A4 at 600 DPI).

web

• HTML5 Canvas Experiment - 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 - 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.

programming,linux

• Bash cures cancer - 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! - My friend Lincoln showed me this. It’s a decent Haskell tutorial with some very oddball illustrations.
• How to Design Programs - A book, freely available online, which teaches software design using Scheme (or is it DrScheme?)
  • How to Design Worlds: 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.

games

• Kongregate - A large collection of rather addictive online Flash games.

books

• The Underground History of American Education 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 by Barbara Sher; I came across this motivational book from Havi Brooks. I haven’t read this either, but I should at some point. It’s free as a series of PDFs.

food

• Basic Beef Stew with Carrots and Mushrooms - made this last week and I’m noting it here so I can find it later. No, I don’t use bookmarks.

hippie

• Living on NST - Nomadic Standard Time - Some post from "Tales from Technomadia".

something

• Seth Godin’s Blog - I can’t remember why I saved this, but it looks like it’s full of thought-provoking articles.
  • The bandwidth-sync correlation… is worth looking at.

1. Install all of the dependencies it says. ALL OF THEM!
2. Follow the other instructions in "INSTALL".
3. Go to /usr/local/lib/neatx and run ./nxserver-login If it looks like this, you're probably good: [hodapp@idiotbox neatx]$ ./nxserver-login HELLO NXSERVER - Version 3.3.0 - GPL NX> 105 If not, you may need to install some dependencies or check paths of some things. If it complains about not being able to import neatx.app, add something like this to the top of nxserver-login: import sys sys.path.append("/usr/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages") Replace that path with your own if it's different, of course.
4. Set up password-less login for user 'nx' using something like 'ssh-keygen -t rsa' and putting the private & public keys someplace easy to find. Check that this works properly from another host (i.e. put the public key in the server's authorized_keys file in ~nx/.ssh, copy the private key to the client, and use 'ssh -i blahblahprivatekey nx@server' there to log in. It should look something like this: chris@momentum:~$ ssh -i nx.key nx@10.1.1.40 Last login: Sun Oct 11 13:11:49 2009 from 10.1.1.20 HELLO NXSERVER - Version 3.3.0 - GPL NX> 105 If it asks for a password, something's wrong. If it terminates the connection immediately, SSH is probably okay, but something server-side with neatX is still messed up. SSH logs can sometimes tell things.

#!/bin/sh
FINGERPRINT=$(grep "Found matching RSA key" /var/log/secure |
     tail -n 1 | egrep -o "(..:){15}..")
if [ $FINGERPRINT == "26:dd:67:82:c1:2d:cc:c0:c6:13:ac:d4:49:0e:79:a3" ]; then
    SERVER="/usr/local/lib/neatx/nxserver-login-wrapper"
elif [ $FINGERPRINT == "35:fb:bd:45:c5:71:91:ce:d6:d9:7f:0b:dc:84:f4:b3" ]; then
    SERVER="/usr/NX/bin/nxserver"
elif [ $FINGERPRINT == "b5:d7:a5:18:0d:c4:fa:18:19:58:20:00:1d:3b:3c:84" ]; then
    SERVER="/usr/libexec/nx/nxserver"
fi
$SERVER

chris@momentum:~$ ssh -i freenx-key nx@10.1.1.40
HELLO NXSERVER - Version 3.2.0-74-SVN OS (GPL, using backend: 3.3.0)
NX> 105
chris@momentum:~$ ssh -i neatx-key nx@10.1.1.40
HELLO NXSERVER - Version 3.3.0 - GPL
NX> 105
chris@momentum:~$ ssh -i nomachine-key nx@10.1.1.40
HELLO NXSERVER - Version 3.4.0-8 - LFE
NX> 105