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| Chris Hodapp | true | 2008-07-26 | post | 20080726-20080803-stuff | 2008.07.26 - 2008.08.03 stuff | 95 |
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Music
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Kaskade - House/electronica artist I came across many times on imeem... was good for calming me down while doing homework
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"5th & Avenida" by Afterlife - an ambient track I liked... it's on "Café del Mar, Volumen Cuatro" (Amazon)
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"100 Billion Stars" by Lux - another ambient track I liked, from "Cafe del Mar, Volume 8" (Amazon)
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"Alive" by Mads Arp with Julie Harrington - yet another, from "Cafe del Mar Dreams, Vol. 4" (Amazon)
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Cafe del Mar, since I didn't realize all those songs came from the same set of albums until I looked them up
Food
- The Black Beast - my friend Jessica made this flourless cake and it's pretty supremely awesome
Research
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"The Limits of Quantum Computers" by Scott Aaronson (draft) - or, why articles professing how quantum computers can do anything are complete bullshit
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From RenewableEnergyWorld: More efficient way to convert waste heat to electricity, from research at Ohio State University
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arxiv draft - Funky chemical bonding that happens at very high pressures (officially, "Tetrahedral clustering in molten lithium under pressure")
Political & hippie stuff
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"In Debt We Trust" by Danny Schechter - film about the national and personal debt crisis in the US (trailer here)
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"If This Is a Man" by Primo Levi - novel by an Italian author, inspired by his time in Auschwitz during WW2
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"No Tech Hacking" by Johnny Long (Amazon) - "A guide to social engineering, dumpster diving, and shoulder surfing."
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"Little Brother" by Cory Doctorow - novel, available freely online if you so desire
**Programming & computerish crap **
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Papers about Self and OO - I haven't read any of these, but I should
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Bad Mojo - some pretty well-reviewed adventure/puzzle game from 1996 which happens to run on DOS/Windows/Mac
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The not-so-short introduction to LaTeX 2e - PDF about LaTeX
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Kile - integrated LaTeX environment
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XeTeX - a merging of TeX with Unicode and modern font technologies
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Apache FOP - "print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter." from the Apache XML Graphics Project
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Hercules 390 - The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator... incidentally, TRON Guy is in charge of the project
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The LiveCD List from FrozenTech - Table of info about Linux distros available as LiveCDs
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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
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Open64 - the Open Research Compiler, used originally on Itanium and now on Nvidia CUDA; it is under GPL
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BrookGPU - "Brook for GPUs is a compiler and runtime implementation of the Brook stream program language for modern graphics hardware."
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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
Electronics
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LM317 - According to Cowclops, this variable linear voltage regulator can be a good way to limit current and voltage for charging an SLA.
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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)
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OpenPCD - Open RFID Reader for 13.56 MHz; site provides the schematic, PCB layout, Gerber files, bill of material, and some software
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OPEX - A "Unique Operating System" for the AVR microcontroller
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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
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Operational amplifier usage (also from National Semiconductor)... handy for stuff to do with op amps.
WTF?
- The Roommate Files - This will put to shame any story you have about bad roommates.