Music
- Kaskade – House/electronica artist I came across many times on imeem… was good for calming me down while doing homework
- “5th & Avenida” by Afterlife – an ambient track I liked… it’s on “Café del Mar, Volumen Cuatro” (Amazon)
- “100 Billion Stars” by Lux – another ambient track I liked, from “Cafe del Mar, Volume 8″ (Amazon)
- “Alive” by Mads Arp with Julie Harrington – yet another, from “Cafe del Mar Dreams, Vol. 4″ (Amazon)
- Cafe del Mar, since I didn’t realize all those songs came from the same set of albums until I looked them up
Food
- The Black Beast – my friend Jessica made this flourless cake and it’s pretty supremely awesome
Research
- “The Limits of Quantum Computers” by Scott Aaronson (draft) – or, why articles professing how quantum computers can do anything are complete bullshit
- Rendering for an Interactive 360-degree Light Field Display
- From RenewableEnergyWorld: More efficient way to convert waste heat to electricity, from research at Ohio State University
- arxiv draft – Funky chemical bonding that happens at very high pressures (officially, “Tetrahedral clustering in molten lithium under pressure”)
Political & hippie stuff
- “In Debt We Trust” by Danny Schechter – film about the national and personal debt crisis in the US (trailer here)
- “If This Is a Man” by Primo Levi – novel by an Italian author, inspired by his time in Auschwitz during WW2
- “No Tech Hacking” by Johnny Long (Amazon) – “A guide to social engineering, dumpster diving, and shoulder surfing.”
- “Little Brother” by Cory Doctorow – novel, available freely online if you so desire
Programming & computerish crap
- Papers about Self and OO – I haven’t read any of these, but I should
- Bad Mojo – some pretty well-reviewed adventure/puzzle game from 1996 which happens to run on DOS/Windows/Mac
- The not-so-short introduction to LaTeX 2e – PDF about LaTeX
- Kile – integrated LaTeX environment
- XeTeX – a merging of TeX with Unicode and modern font technologies
- Apache FOP – “print formatter driven by XSL formatting objects (XSL-FO) and an output independent formatter.” from the Apache XML Graphics Project
- Hercules 390 – The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture Emulator… incidentally, TRON Guy is in charge of the project
- The LiveCD List from FrozenTech – Table of info about Linux distros available as LiveCDs
- INSERT – the Inside Security Rescue Toolkit, a Linux distro that comes with various tools for rescue and recovery; it’s a 60 MB download so it works well as a LiveCD or USB-stick
- Open64 – the Open Research Compiler, used originally on Itanium and now on Nvidia CUDA; it is under GPL
- BrookGPU – “Brook for GPUs is a compiler and runtime implementation of the Brook stream program language for modern graphics hardware.”
- OpenCL – “a language for programming heterogeneous data and task parallel computing across GPUs and CPUs.”; initial implementation is on LLVM (Low Level Virtual Machine) and clang
Electronics
- LM317 – According to Cowclops, this variable linear voltage regulator can be a good way to limit current and voltage for charging an SLA.
- JOP: A Tiny Java Processor – A hardware implementation of the Java Virtual Machine; it can be put onto a low-cost FPGA, so the site claims, with the VHDL source (which is GPLed)
- OpenPCD – Open RFID Reader for 13.56 MHz; site provides the schematic, PCB layout, Gerber files, bill of material, and some software
- OPEX – A “Unique Operating System” for the AVR microcontroller
- Use, Abuse, and Misuse of Amplifiers by Bob Pease – online seminar from National Semiconductor (or “webinar” if you prefer… which I don’t); beware, page is quite large
- Operational amplifier usage (also from National Semiconductor)… handy for stuff to do with op amps.
WTF?
- The Roommate Files – This will put to shame any story you have about bad roommates.
