books

2009.08.12

2009-08-14

videos,paranoia Here and here - videos from Prof. James Duane and Officer George Bruch about why talking to the police is almost never a good idea. software omploader - A place to upload files. It can also be done with a firefox extension or in a script. Paperback, from the OllyDbg guy. This lets you store data on paper (about 500 KB for A4 at 600 DPI).…more

2009.07.21

2009-07-22

local,links Queen City Discovery - An interesting blog about urban exploration in Cincinnati that some guys in Hive13 told me about Amidst a pile of other new-age and holistic bullshit in some free magazine, I miraculously discovered an ad for the “Uptown Farmer’s Market” at Garden Park - 3581 W. Galbraith Road, Fridays 12-7, Saturdays 10-2, 513-238-6616 In trying to find a record that this existed, I came across the Central Ohio River Valley Local Foods Guide (which does indeed acknowledge that this market exists).…more

2009.04.30

2009-05-01

log Here is the umpteenth post made to my Wordpress in an automated way… I guess here is where I put “Hello, world” and for once it’s actually kind of accurate because the post is going where the world can see it. So, uh, Hello, world Did I fix my idiotic bugs yet? graphics http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview (John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more) links,blogs http://www.…more

2008.09.26 - 2008.11.09, really overdue stuff

2008-11-09

Linux http://www.spencerstirling.com/computergeek/powersaving.html - “Saving Energy in Linux” from Spencer Stirling PowerTOP - tool to assist with such energy-saving (on Intel boxes at least) by telling how well hardware power-saving is utilized and which software is causing problems Improving Boot Time on a General Linux Distro from Frederic Crozat Handy One-Liners for sed from Eric Pement… I used the venerable sed extensively at work to un-screw-up CSV files…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

More scrap notes, starting 2008-04-18

2008-04-18

2008.04.something “True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society” - Farhad Manjoo (Amazon) - in a way, a more factual approach to people judging by “truthiness” rather than truth “Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think” - George Lakoff (Amazon) - who knows, might be interesting 2008.04.18 People that some guy labeled as “hard left”: Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klei…more

Post-its and scrap notes, starting 2008.04.03

2008-04-03

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 http://www.ucsusa.org - Union of Concerned Scientists Study: Unskilled and Unaware of It - some notable paper Ig Nobel Prize - “Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK” Talking Points Memo - I don’t know why I wrote this…more