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author: Chris Hodapp
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date: 2008-08-22
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slug: 20080822-20080926-or-something-like-that
title: 2008.08.22 - 2008.09.26 or something like that
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categories:
- Scratch
tags:
- Hardware
---

**Reference stuff**



	
  * [National Criminal Justice Reference Service](http://ncjrs.gov/) - good collection of papers and resources from the DOJ

	
  * [Secrecy News](http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/) - "Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy", [FAS](http://www.fas.org/)=Federation of American Scientists

	
  * [Stanford Engineering Everywhere](http://see.stanford.edu/SEE/Courses.aspx) - free online courses from Stanford in CS, AI, and Linear Systems & Optimization; includes transcripts and video lectures

	
  * ["Life Incorporated"](http://rushkoff.com/books/life-incorporated/) by Doug Rushkoff, or "How We Traded Meaning for Markets, Society for Self Interest, and Citizenship for Customer Service."

	
  * ["Fooled by Randomness"](http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Markets/dp/0812975219/ref=ed_oe_p) by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, or "The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets"


**Technical stuff**



	
  * [Creating DjVu documents in Linux howto](http://www.bcri.ucc.ie/~vk1/djvu-HOWTO.html)

	
  * [Kicad libraries converted from EAGLE](http://library.oshec.org/)

	
  * [pfSense](http://www.pfsense.com/) - "free, open source customized distribution of [FreeBSD](http://www.freebsd.org/) tailored for use as a firewall and router."

	
  * [How to apply color curves in ImageMagick](http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color/#curves) - came in handy for optimizing files from massive numbers of scans before DjVu conversion

	
  * [Internetworking Technology Handbook](http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/internetworking/technology/handbook/ito_doc.html) from Cisco - lots of freely available guides

	
  * [FreeMind](http://freemind.sourceforge.net/) - a free [mind-mapping](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map) program written in Java. I haven't used it much yet, but it looks really useful.

	
  * [Mathesaurus](http://mathesaurus.sourceforge.net/) - 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](http://myreader.co.uk/msg/10238071.aspx) - mailing list conversation

	
  * [KolibriOS](http://www.kolibrios.org/) - OS for x86 written in assembly; runs on one floppy; a fork of MenuetOS. This runs well in VirtualBox.


**Music, demoscene, and other shiny stuff**



	
  * [Future Crew - Second Reality](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G_aUxbbqWU) - very impressive demo from 1993 (actual program for DOS [here](http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=63))

	
  * [ChibiTracker](http://www.chibitracker.com/) - 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](http://mapofscience.com/) - trying to visualize connections between various sciences... Flash-based and interactive and kinda neat


**Miscellaneous**



	
  * [10 Steps to Becoming Enlightened](http://www.ascendedbeings.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3&mode=threaded) (yeah, slightly lofty title)

	
  * [List of Fallacious Arguments](http://www.don-lindsay-archive.org/skeptic/arguments.html)

	
  * [38 Ways to Win an Argument](http://www.searchlores.org/schopeng.htm) - from Schopenhauer's "The Art of Controversy" (which can be found [here](http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/schopenhauer/arthur/controversy/))

	
  * [The Happiness Project](http://happiness-project.com/) - 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](http://www.intelius.com/) - People search, free and apparently pretty good


**Religious**



	
  * [Major Writings of Nichiron Daishonin](http://nichiren.info/gosho.html)