**Ideas ranging between “unconventional” and “BS” **
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Uberman’s Sleep Schedule if you are insane enough and need the extra time
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Live Longer: The One Anti-Aging Trick that Works (no, “live longer” is not the trick, it’s caloric restriction)
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Collected Writing of Don DeGracia - pertains to lucid dreams & astral projection. I originally found his writings on a BBS in about 1999, and the files I found were from Compuserve in 1994. Wow.
Political stuff
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Corporate Swine - certain companies, and why they suck.
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They Rule - “They Rule aims to provide a glimpse of some of the relationships of the US ruling class.” The page is almost all Flash-based, but given its interface I don’t see how else it could have been done. Check it out.
Food
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The cottage cheese page - more things to make with cottage cheese than I thought was possible
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Kalyn’s Kitchen - a blog with lots of colorful pictures… oh, and recipes
Music
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Netlabels collection at Internet Archive; “This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of ‘virtual record labels’.”
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Discogs - lots of information on music from obscure labels and artists
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Tangerine Dream - I wrote this band down in 2005 and I haven’t listened to them yet
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“My Freedom” by Beat Foundation - yet another ambient (or chillout?) track I liked, from Cafe Del Mar: Ibiza vol. 3 (Amazon)
Literature and Other Stuff With Words
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“Mysterious Stranger” by Mark Twain
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and a very creepy claymation version here
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“The War Prayer” also by Mark Twain
Technical Stuff
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SynDEx from INRIA - “a system level CAD software based on the “algorithm- architecture adequation” (AAA) methodology, for rapid prototyping and optimizing the implementation of distributed real-time embedded applications onto “multicomponent” architectures.”
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Data visualization tools for Linux - covers GnuPlot, Octave, Scilab, MayaVi, Maxima, OpenDX
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gnuplot tips & not so frequently asked questions
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memcached - “a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.”
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BeOS bootdisk collection which I have no idea if I’ll ever use but here it is
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Thesis paper from Mark Samuel Miller (Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control)
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Another thesis paper, by D. P. Reed (Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System)
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P2P-Radio - Internet radio distributed via peer-to-peer means
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Manent - algorithmically strong backup and archival program
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DSPACE - an open source solution for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works
Shiny Technical Stuff
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Project Looking Glass from Sun Microsystems
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Videos of Croquet from Croquet Consortium
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LaTeX Beamer Class - something for making presentations in LaTeX
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http://www.visualcube.org/ - 3D volumetric display with 6x6x6 voxels
Electronics/Programming/Lower-level
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More FPGA stuff - Xilinx USB/Parallel JTAG cables on Linux without proprietary kernel modules
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OpenOCD - Open on-chip debugger, ISP, boundary scan
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Objective C & programming musics at another wordpress blog
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Implementing an Interpreter; or, Going Fast Without Writing Code - good presentation on the Parrot Virtual Machine
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Ken Silverman’s voxel engine with source code available
**Flame Wars about technical stuff **
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On the Thesis that X is Big/Bloated/Obsolete and Should Be Replaced because I’ve heard that too many times
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“He Who Controls the Bootloader” by Scot Hacker (it’s from 2001)
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Essay by Jean-Louis Gassee (of BeOS fame) on why PC makers don’t sell non-MS stuff
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Article on a similar matter
Games
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Interview with Wendell Hicken, creator of Scorched Earth which is only one of my favorite games ever
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Outcast - some voxel-based engine that was very well-done, apparently