**Food-related **
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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
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Wikibooks 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 which doesn’t really belong here because these are mostly medicinal uses
Music
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The Future Freaks Me Out - album from a band my friend Shannon likes
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Jamglue - remixing for the masses… I haven’t looked at it in much detail. but Corina uses it
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John Walsh - local (as in Cincinnati) punk/hardcore band that Joc likes
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The Seedy Seeds (and also here on Myspace) - another local band (electronica?) that Joc likes
Shiny stuff
- Dafont - site full of categorized fonts for download (free for personal use)
Books/Authors/Literature
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Paul Ekman, “cutting edge behavorial science for real world applications” with some downloadable articles
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The Silent Language and The Hidden Dimension 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 and The Fall of a Sparrow and The Picture of Dorian Grey and some books by an “up and author” Emily Giffin: Something Blue, Something Borrowed, and Love the One You’re With
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Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
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Like this one about how Science should find a way to make farts smell better.
Hippie & Political Stuff
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Joc showed me this: Freecycle - “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 by Steve Albini
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Courtney Love’s commentary on record label profits, Napster, music, and piracy
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Order of Death on Youtube - someone told me I should watch it. I haven’t yet. There’s a high chance it’s complete BS.
Software stuff
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Bart’s way to create bootable CDs - very handy
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Squeak - VM (open source) implementing Smalltalk (this FLOSS Weekly talks about it)
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Seaside - “framework for developing sophisticated web applications in Smalltalk” (this FLOSS Weekly talks about it as well)
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Squeak by Example - 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 by Alan Kay - it is from 1993, but is still a very in-depth paper
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Smalltalk: Getting the Message - article more focused on the “why” and “how” of Smalltalk than its history
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SliTaz - 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 - a CentOS-based Linux distro designed to make building and managing clusters a lot easier (mentioned in this FLOSS Weekly)
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Webconverger - “open source web kiosk”, or basically a Linux distro designed to boot quickly into Firefox
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VR Juggler Suite - some sort of open source virtual reality suite
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Englab - open source mathematical platform, similar to MATLAB, in very early versions right now
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Quotes about C and C++ and Programming Quotes which are mostly good for being funny rather than useful, or for pissing people off
Hardware stuff (DIYish)
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LyngSat - free satellite channels to receive, in case you wanted something else to do with that satellite dish
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Journal from evilviper on Slashdot, also about FTA satellite reception
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Atmel AVR ATmega16 / ATmega32 programmer - needs parallel port and ATmega16
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Really simple AVR ISP programmer for ATmega128 - uses just parallel port and a few resistors
Hardware stuff (non-DIY-unless-you-have-a-fab-or-a-CNC)
- Loongson - general-purpose CPU made at Chinese Academy of Sciences; MIPS-compatible and used in some small devices like this
Research
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3D holographic display at USC (uses projector + rapidly rotating mirror)
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Lest We Remember: 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.
Video game-related
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FIFE engine - open source 2D engine designed for isometric and top-down views
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XGameStation video game development kit - looks like they have various kits for programming games, old-school style, and a lot of user-submitted programs