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title: "Old-tattered-notebook-from-1999 notes"
date: "2008-05-27"
---

So, these are probably more useful here than sitting in a dusty binder...

**2003.07**

- "Common Lisp, Typing, and Mathematics" by Francis Sergereart - good (long) paper about one application of Common Lisp; [Postscript here](http://ai.king.net.pl/articles/common-lisp.ps)
- "Getting Started With LaTeX", David R. Wilkins - [here](http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/)

**2004.07**

- [AT&T Graphviz](http://www.graphviz.org/) - very very useful program for visualization of directed and undirected graphs

**2005.04**

- [](http://www.opencroquet.org/)[Croquet](http://croquetconsortium.org/) (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.

**2005.??**

- [JGraph](http://jgraph.com/) - some sort of graphing and visualization software, open-source and written in Java
- [Ploticus](http://ploticus.sourceforge.net/) - 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](http://www.texmacs.org/) - " 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.

**2005.08.23**

- Very useful [link](http://www.geocities.com/evilsnack/matrix.htm) for using matrices in POV-Ray
- Media and Particle Systems in POV-Ray, [here](http://www.willamette.edu/~gorr/classes/GeneralGraphics/Media/)
- Photons & caustics in POV-Ray, [here](http://nathan.kopp.com/photons.htm)

**2006.12.11**

- ["Weaving the Web"](http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/), Tim Berners-Lee - "The original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web, by its inventor."

**2006.12.15**

- [Grasshopper Enterprises](http://www.grasshopper.com/), "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

**2007.04.19**

- [cachegrind](http://valgrind.org/info/tools.html) - 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?

**2007.04.26**

- ["The Grand Inquisitor"](http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/grand.htm) 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.

**2007.11.02**

- [Voyage Linux](http://linux.voyage.hk/) - Debian-based distro, designed for embedded systems, like [Soekris](http://www.soekris.com/) boards; it is suitable as a WAP, firewall, gateway, NAS, etc.
- [IPv6 Tunnel Broker](http://tunnelbroker.net/) - reach IPv6 internet freely by tunneling over existing IPv4 connections, courtesy of Hurricane Electric Internet Services
- [The Honeynet Project](http://www.honeynet.org/) - 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"](http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/9/5/05113/70314)
- "The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier" by Bruce Sterling; available [here](http://www.mit.edu/hacker/hacker.html) as "literary freeware"
- ["The War on the Unexpected" by Bruce Schneier](http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/11/the_war_on_the.html)

**2008.05.26**

- [http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/](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[](http://www.looknohands.com/chordhouse/piano/)