So, my bag now has a big stack of scrap notes in it, just from things I jotted down at work… these should probably go online…
2008.04.03
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http://www.ucsusa.org - Union of Concerned Scientists
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Study: Unskilled and Unaware of It - some notable paper
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Ig Nobel Prize - “Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK”
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Talking Points Memo - I don’t know why I wrote this
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Analog Devices - Blackfin - 16/32-bit embedded core, 10-stage RISC MCU/DSP pipeline, full SIMD support
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Analog Devices - SHARC - floating-point DSP
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Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations - some article from EFF
2008.04.04
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“Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn From the Past” - Lloyd Gardner, Marilyn Young (Amazon)
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Open Media Now! foundation - has the goal of open media infrastructure; apparently the same guys who made Gnash
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“The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements” - Eric Hoffer; published in 1951, discusses the psychological causes of fanaticism (Amazon)
2008.04.09
- David Allen, Getting Things Done and GTD - some sorta organizational system that NPR’s podcast from 2008.02.20 mentioned
2008.04.11
- Ken Miller - biology professor, notable for combining evolution with belief in God and rejecting creationism and intelligent design; wrote “Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution” (Amazon)
2008.04.16
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“Outline of Intellectual Rubbish” - Bertrand Russell (e-text here)
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“The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” - Naomi Klein (personal site, Amazon)
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same author: “No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs " (Amazon)
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“The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot” - Naomi Wolf… for a bit more apocalyptical point of view (Amazon)
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“War is a Racket” - Major General Smedley D. Butler - booklet/speech from 1930’s (e-text here)
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MUCS-PCB - PCB design software (GPLed) from University of Manchester
2008.04.17
- www.linuxcnc.org - software to let a PC control a CNC machine; according to archivist in #electronics on Freenode, this can use a parallel port (with some level converters and optoisolators) to control four stepper motors, and the CNC itself can be made from largely a lot of scrap parts