2008.08.22 - 2008.09.26 or something like that

2008-08-22

Reference stuff National Criminal Justice Reference Service - good collection of papers and resources from the DOJ Secrecy News - “Secrecy News from the FAS Project on Government Secrecy”, FAS=Federation of American Scientists Stanford Engineering Everywhere - free online courses from Stanford in CS, AI, and Linear Systems & Optimization; includes transcripts and video lectures “Life Incorporated” by Doug Rushkoff, or “How We Traded Meaning for Markets, Society for Self Interest, and Citizenship for Customer Service.…more

2008.08.04 - 2008.08.21, more technical blah

2008-08-04

**Ideas ranging between “unconventional” and “BS” ** Uberman’s Sleep Schedule if you are insane enough and need the extra time Live Longer: The One Anti-Aging Trick that Works (no, “live longer” is not the trick, it’s caloric restriction) How Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind Collected Writing of Don DeGracia - pertains to lucid dreams & astral projection.…more

2008.07.26 - 2008.08.03 stuff

2008-07-26

Music Kaskade - House/electronica artist I came across many times on imeem… was good for calming me down while doing homework “5th & Avenida” by Afterlife - an ambient track I liked… it’s on “Café del Mar, Volumen Cuatro” (Amazon) “100 Billion Stars” by Lux - another ambient track I liked, from “Cafe del Mar, Volume 8” (Amazon) “Alive” by Mads Arp with Julie Harrington - yet another, from “Cafe del Mar Dreams, Vol.…more

2008.07.10 - 2008.07.26 debris

2008-07-10

**Food-related ** Chai recipe I tried Using fresh and ground ginger - 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 Wikibooks cookbook - I don’t know much of what else is on it, but my recipe for hardtack came from here. Stuff to do with cloves which doesn’t really belong here because these are mostly medicinal uses…more

2008.06.18 - 2008.07.09, really overdue notes

2008-06-18

Hardware http://www.ucapps.de/ - “Non-commercial DIY Projects for MIDI Hardware Geeks” http://midibox.org/ - Looks like a blog about various other MIDI-related DIY projects Nvidia Tegra - “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 Geek Articles/Software An Interview with the Old Man of Floating-Point (William Kahan)…more

Notes 2008.06.01 - 2008.06.07

2008-06-07

Technical stuff Red Hill Technology - decent articles pertaining a lot to old x86 hardware TRIPS (utexas again) - “developing a new class of technology-scalable, power efficient, high-performance microprocessor architectures called EDGE (Explicit Data Graph Execution) architectures.” and I’ve got at least one technical paper that’s been on my computer for over a year that I’ve put off reading somehow Programs and stuff Xournal - " Xournal is an application for notetaking, sketching, keeping a journal using a stylus.…more

2008.06.07 - 2008.06.17, yay notes

2008-06-07

Potentially political Meetup - find groups of a given topic or interest, near whatever location you give… or “Get on the Internet to get off the Internet Legal Rights of Photographers by Andrew Kantor (or this PDF) - very informative and helpful to know The Photographer’s Right flyer by Bert P. Krages II, which is actually what I was trying to find when I found the link from Andrew Kanto…more

Old-tattered-notebook-from-1999 notes

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 “Getting Started With LaTeX”, David R. Wilkins - here 2004.07 AT&T Graphviz - very very useful program for visualization of directed and undirected graphs 2005.04 Croquet (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.…more

Semi-organized scrap notes, 2008.05.26-2008.06.01

2008-05-26

Political/otherwise controversial Seen on a bumper sticker on a semi truck: http://www.headsneedtoroll.org/ . . . looks to have a pretty good stated mission Vote Apathy Party 08 because at least I’m honest. Just discovered Utah Phillips upon hearing an interview with him after his death on May 23 “Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine On Trial” by Simon Singh (Amazon) Technical blah…more

20 pages of scrap notes, 2008.05.19-05.23

2008-05-19

I astound myself by how many pages of scrap notes I accumulate over 5 days, just during my down time at work. 2008.05.19 “Exposing the Modern Racist Paradigm,” extremely long page here Someone’s opinions on why the Amiga is awesome, here . . . meaningful to me because I haven’t used an Amiga Simputer - “self-contained, open hardware handheld computer, designed for use in environments where computing devices such as personal computers are deemed inappropriate.…more