Ideas ranging between “unconventional” and “BS”
- Uberman’s Sleep Schedule if you are insane enough and need the extra time
- Live Longer: The One Anti-Aging Trick that Works (no, “live longer” is not the trick, it’s caloric restriction)
- How Your Inner Athlete Makes You Smarter
- Top 10 Mysteries of the Mind
- 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.
- Software for binaural beating: binaural, sbagen, AutoZen
Political stuff
- Corporate Swine – certain companies, and why they suck.
- 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.
- SaveNetRadio
Food
- The cottage cheese page – more things to make with cottage cheese than I thought was possible
- Kalyn’s Kitchen – a blog with lots of colorful pictures… oh, and recipes
Music
- Netlabels collection at Internet Archive; “This collection hosts complete, freely downloadable/streamable, often Creative Commons-licensed catalogs of ‘virtual record labels’.”
- Discogs – lots of information on music from obscure labels and artists
- Tangerine Dream – I wrote this band down in 2005 and I haven’t listened to them yet
- “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
- “Mysterious Stranger” by Mark Twain
- and a very creepy claymation version here
- “The War Prayer” also by Mark Twain
Technical Stuff
- 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.”
- Data visualization tools for Linux – covers GnuPlot, Octave, Scilab, MayaVi, Maxima, OpenDX
- gnuplot tips & not so frequently asked questions
- 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.”
- BeOS bootdisk collection which I have no idea if I’ll ever use but here it is
- Thesis paper from Mark Samuel Miller (Robust Composition: Towards a Unified Approach to Access Control and Concurrency Control)
- Another thesis paper, by D. P. Reed (Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System)
- P2P-Radio – Internet radio distributed via peer-to-peer means
- PGP Digital Timestamping Service
- Manent – algorithmically strong backup and archival program
- DSPACE – an open source solution for accessing, managing, and preserving scholarly works
Shiny Technical Stuff
- Project Looking Glass from Sun Microsystems
- Videos of Croquet from Croquet Consortium
- LaTeX Beamer Class – something for making presentations in LaTeX
- http://www.visualcube.org/ – 3D volumetric display with 6×6x6 voxels
Electronics/Programming/Lower-level
- More FPGA stuff – Xilinx USB/Parallel JTAG cables on Linux without proprietary kernel modules
- OpenOCD – Open on-chip debugger, ISP, boundary scan
- Objective C & programming musics at another wordpress blog
- GNUstep mini tutorials
- Implementing an Interpreter; or, Going Fast Without Writing Code – good presentation on the Parrot Virtual Machine
- Perl 6 and the Parrot Virtual Machine
- Ken Silverman’s voxel engine with source code available
Flame Wars about technical stuff
- On the Thesis that X is Big/Bloated/Obsolete and Should Be Replaced because I’ve heard that too many times
- BSD vs. Linux
- “He Who Controls the Bootloader” by Scot Hacker (it’s from 2001)
- Essay by Jean-Louis Gassee (of BeOS fame) on why PC makers don’t sell non-MS stuff
- Article on a similar matter
Games
- Interview with Wendell Hicken, creator of Scorched Earth which is only one of my favorite games ever
- Outcast – some voxel-based engine that was very well-done, apparently
