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author: Chris Hodapp
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date: 2008-07-26 15:11:54+00:00
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layout: post
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slug: 20080710-20080726-debris
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title: 2008.07.10 - 2008.07.26 debris
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wordpress_id: 92
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categories:
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- Scratch
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tags:
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- Hardware
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- Music
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---
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**Food-related
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* [Chai recipe I tried](http://www.odie.org/chai/rec/rec104.html)
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* [Using fresh and ground ginger](http://www.seedsofknowledge.com/ginger.html) - 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
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* [Wikibooks cookbook](http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook) - I don't know much of what else is on it, but my recipe for hardtack came from here.
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* [Stuff to do with cloves](http://herbal-skin-care-products.blogspot.com/2008/05/clove.html) which doesn't really belong here because these are mostly medicinal uses
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**Music**
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* [The Future Freaks Me Out](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Future_Freaks_Me_Out) - album from a band my friend Shannon likes
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* [Jamglue](http://www.jamglue.com/) - remixing for the masses... I haven't looked at it in much detail. but Corina uses it
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* [John Walsh](http://www.myspace.com/americasmostpositive) - local (as in Cincinnati) punk/hardcore band that Joc likes
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* [The Seedy Seeds](http://www.theseedyseeds.com/) (and also [here](http://www.myspace.com/theseedyseeds) on Myspace) - another local band (electronica?) that Joc likes
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**Shiny stuff**
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* [Dafont ](http://www.dafont.com/)- site full of categorized fonts for download (free for personal use)
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**Books/Authors/Literature**
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* [Paul Ekman](http://www.paulekman.com/), "cutting edge behavorial science for real world applications" with some downloadable articles
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* [The Silent Language](http://www.amazon.com/Silent-Language-Edward-T-Hall/dp/0385055498) and [The Hidden Dimension](http://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Dimension-Edward-Twitchell-Hall/dp/0844665525/) by Edward T. Hall . . . pertains to non-verbal communication and emotions
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* Mentioned by Meredith and probably directed to a female audience but maybe still worth a look: [Memory Keeper's Daughter](http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Keepers-Daughter-Kim-Edwards/dp/0143037145) and [The Fall of a Sparrow](http://www.amazon.com/FALL-SPARROW-NOVEL-Robert-Hellenga/dp/0684850273) and [The Picture of Dorian Grey](http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext94/dgray10h.htm) and some books by an "up and author" Emily Giffin: [Something Blue](http://www.amazon.com/Something-Blue-Emily-Giffin/dp/0312323859), [Something Borrowed](http://www.amazon.com/Something-Borrowed-Emily-Giffin/dp/031232118X), and [Love the One You're With](http://www.amazon.com/Love-One-Youre-Emily-Giffin/dp/0312348673)
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* [Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School](http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1583940790/)
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* Like [this one](http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/index.asp?document=470) about how Science should find a way to make farts smell better.
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**Hippie & Political Stuff**
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* Joc showed me this: [Freecycle](http://www.freecycle.org/) - "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."
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* [The Problem with Music](http://www.negativland.com/albini.html) by Steve Albini
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* [Courtney Love's](http://archive.salon.com/tech/feature/2000/06/14/love/print.html) commentary on record label profits, Napster, music, and piracy
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* [Order of Death](http://youtube.com/watch?v=rdi8R3vXV-I) on Youtube - someone told me I should watch it. I haven't yet. There's a high chance it's complete BS.
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**Software stuff**
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* [Bart's way to create bootable CDs](http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/) - very handy
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* [Squeak](http://www.squeak.org/) - VM (open source) implementing Smalltalk (this [FLOSS Weekly](http://twit.tv/floss29) talks about it)
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* [Seaside](http://www.seaside.st/) - "framework for developing sophisticated web applications in Smalltalk" (this [FLOSS Weekly](http://twit.tv/floss21) talks about it as well)
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* [Squeak by Example](http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/SBE/) - pretty good book (available as a PDF for free, or as a printed copy from lulu.com for $20.10)
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* [Early History of Smalltalk](http://gagne.homedns.org/~tgagne/contrib/EarlyHistoryST.html) by Alan Kay - it is from 1993, but is still a very in-depth paper
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* [Smalltalk: Getting the Message](http://www.chronos-st.org/Smalltalk-Getting-the-Message.html) - article more focused on the "why" and "how" of Smalltalk than its history
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* [SliTaz](http://www.linux.com/feature/140573) - a Linux distro designed to run out of RAM and still have a usable desktop; current version is only about 25 MB
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* [Rocks Clusters](http://www.rocksclusters.org/wordpress/) - a CentOS-based Linux distro designed to make building and managing clusters a lot easier (mentioned in this [FLOSS Weekly](http://twit.tv/floss30))
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* [Webconverger](http://webconverger.com/) - "open source web kiosk", or basically a Linux distro designed to boot quickly into Firefox
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* [VR Juggler Suite](http://www.vrjuggler.org/) - some sort of open source virtual reality suite
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* [Englab](http://englab.sourceforge.net/) - open source mathematical platform, similar to MATLAB, in very early versions right now
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* [Quotes about C and C++](http://www.sysprog.net/quotec.html) and [Programming Quotes](http://www.gdargaud.net/Humor/QuotesProgramming.html) which are mostly good for being funny rather than useful, or for pissing people off
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**Hardware stuff (DIYish)**
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* [Making a solar baker from an abandoned satellite dish](http://www.backyardnature.net/j/solardsh.htm)
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* [LyngSat](http://www.lyngsat.com/) - free satellite channels to receive, in case you wanted something else to do with that satellite dish
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* [Journal](http://slashdot.org/~evilviper/journal/189083) from evilviper on Slashdot, also about FTA satellite reception
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* [Atmel AVR ATmega16 / ATmega32 programmer](http://www.captain.at/electronics/atmel-programmer/) - needs parallel port and ATmega16
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* [Really simple AVR ISP programmer for ATmega128](http://www.scienceprog.com/simplest-128-atmega-programmer/) - uses just parallel port and a few resistors
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**Hardware stuff (non-DIY-unless-you-have-a-fab-or-a-CNC)**
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* [Loongson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson) - general-purpose CPU made at Chinese Academy of Sciences; MIPS-compatible and used in some small devices like [this](http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS8003782690.html)
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**Research**
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* [3D holographic display](http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/06/usc-lab-creates.html) at USC (uses projector + rapidly rotating mirror)
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* [Lest We Remember:](http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/) 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.
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**Video game-related**
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* [FIFE engine](http://www.fifengine.de/) - open source 2D engine designed for isometric and top-down views
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* [XGameStation](http://www.xgamestation.com/) video game development kit - looks like they have various kits for programming games, old-school style, and a lot of user-submitted programs
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