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author: Chris Hodapp
comments: true
date: 2008-07-10 03:35:24+00:00
layout: post
slug: 20080618-20080709-really-overdue-notes
title: 2008.06.18 - 2008.07.09, really overdue notes
wordpress_id: 91
categories:
- Scratch
tags:
- Hardware
- hippies
- programming
---
**Hardware**
* [http://www.ucapps.de/](http://www.ucapps.de) - "Non-commercial DIY Projects for MIDI Hardware Geeks"
* [http://midibox.org/](http://midibox.org/) - Looks like a blog about various other MIDI-related DIY projects
* [Nvidia Tegra](http://gizmodo.com/5012159/nvidia-tegra-all+in+one-mobile-processors-aim-to-nuke-intels-atom-promise-30-hours-hd-playback) -  "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](http://futurlec.com/Mini_Ethernet.shtml)
**Geek Articles/Software**
* [An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point](http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754status/754story.html) (William Kahan)
* [Numerical Workbenches, pt. III](http://linuxgazette.net/issue71/spiel.html) (Christoph Spiel) - plotting in [GNU Octave](http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/), [Scilab](http://www.scilab.org/), and [Tela](http://www.ava.fmi.fi/prog/tela.html)
* [Scilab lecture notes](http://math.unipune.ernet.in/free%20maths/scilab-maxima-doc/engr2200_lecture4scilab.txt) from University of Pune
* [Basics of Scilab Control Toolbox](http://www.wolffdata.se/scilab/controltools1.html)
* [freemind](http://freemind.sourceforge.net/) - "is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java."... I could probably benefit a lot by using this properly.
* [Art of Illusion](http://www.artofillusion.org/) by Peter Eastman - "Art of Illusion is a free, open source 3D modelling and rendering studio." . . . looks very powerful and capable; another manual [here](http://www.housepixels.com/aoimanual/contents.html)
* [xpra](http://partiwm.org/wiki/xpra) - "persistent remote applications" for X; think like GNU Screen, or like a remote application rather than a remote desktop
* [Scale](http://www-ali.cs.umass.edu/Scale/) - Scalable Compiler for Analytical Experiments; right now, a research/instructional compiler (open source, Java) used mainly for generating code for the [TRIPS](http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~trips/) architecture
* [raw Architecture Workstation](http://cag.csail.mit.edu/raw/purpose/) - project at MIT for "simple, wire-efficient multicore architecture that scales with increasing VLSI gate densities"... tiled, multicore, highly parallel
* [Sun Labs Lively Kernel](http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/) - positioned as a Flash alternative for the iPhone, for instance (interview with creator Dan Ingalls [here](http://twit.tv/floss29))
* [The Sentinel](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sentinel_%28computer_game%29) - old computer game that was notable for generating its levels procedurally
* [.kkrieger](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger) - procedural generation taken to an extreme, from [.theprodukkt](http://www.theprodukkt.com/kkrieger)
**Hippie Stuff**
* [MoBo Bicycle Coop](http://mobobicyclecoop.org/) - "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](http://www.myspace.com/mobobicyclecoop))
* [AskWish](http://www.askwish.com/) -
* [Hegelian dialectic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic#Hegelian_dialectic) - remind me to read this in detail and find why it pertains to politics
**Hippie Geek Stuff**
* [Owner-free Filesystem](http://wiki.offdev.org/Main_Page) - "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?](http://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/lawpoli/colour/2004061001.php) - relevant to intellectual property somehow but I haven't read it yet.
* [Traffic Waves](http://www.amasci.com/amateur/traffic/traffic1.html) - "sometimes one driver can vastly improve traffic."
* ["Big and Bad"](http://www.gladwell.com/2004/2004_01_12_a_suv.html) - Malcolm Gladwell's opinions of SUVs and their marketing. (same Malcolm Gladwell who wrote [Tipping Point](http://www.gladwell.com/tippingpoint/) though I didn't make this connection when I read the article)
**Food**
* [http://www.tonychor.com/archive/000443.html](http://www.tonychor.com/archive/000443.html) . . . I now know that it's better to cook bacon in the oven.
* [Jewish Purist's Bagels](http://www.masterstech-home.com/The_Kitchen/Recipes/Vegetarian_Recipes/JewishPuristsBagels.html)