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
Music
- The Future Freaks Me Out – album from a band my friend Shannon likes
- Jamglue – remixing for the masses… I haven’t looked at it in much detail. but Corina uses it
- John Walsh – local (as in Cincinnati) punk/hardcore band that Joc likes
- 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
- Paul Ekman, “cutting edge behavorial science for real world applications” with some downloadable articles
- The Silent Language and The Hidden Dimension by Edward T. Hall . . . pertains to non-verbal communication and emotions
- 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
- Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
- Like this one about how Science should find a way to make farts smell better.
Hippie & Political Stuff
- 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.”
- The Problem with Music by Steve Albini
- Courtney Love’s commentary on record label profits, Napster, music, and piracy
- 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
- Bart’s way to create bootable CDs – very handy
- Squeak – VM (open source) implementing Smalltalk (this FLOSS Weekly talks about it)
- Seaside – “framework for developing sophisticated web applications in Smalltalk” (this FLOSS Weekly talks about it as well)
- Squeak by Example – pretty good book (available as a PDF for free, or as a printed copy from lulu.com for $20.10)
- Early History of Smalltalk by Alan Kay – it is from 1993, but is still a very in-depth paper
- Smalltalk: Getting the Message – article more focused on the “why” and “how” of Smalltalk than its history
- SliTaz – a Linux distro designed to run out of RAM and still have a usable desktop; current version is only about 25 MB
- Rocks Clusters – a CentOS-based Linux distro designed to make building and managing clusters a lot easier (mentioned in this FLOSS Weekly)
- Webconverger – “open source web kiosk”, or basically a Linux distro designed to boot quickly into Firefox
- VR Juggler Suite – some sort of open source virtual reality suite
- Englab – open source mathematical platform, similar to MATLAB, in very early versions right now
- 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)
- Making a solar baker from an abandoned satellite dish
- LyngSat – free satellite channels to receive, in case you wanted something else to do with that satellite dish
- Journal from evilviper on Slashdot, also about FTA satellite reception
- Atmel AVR ATmega16 / ATmega32 programmer – needs parallel port and ATmega16
- 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
- 3D holographic display at USC (uses projector + rapidly rotating mirror)
- 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
- FIFE engine – open source 2D engine designed for isometric and top-down views
- XGameStation video game development kit – looks like they have various kits for programming games, old-school style, and a lot of user-submitted programs
