2009.05.03

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software,education

• Scratch: “Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art — and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills.”

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video

• Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog – I don’t know what this is but my friend Patrick tells me I should watch it.

2009.05.01

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software

• Finnix, ‘Finnix is a self-contained, bootable Linux CD distribution (“LiveCD”) for system administrators, based on Debian testing”; I came across this while looking at what common distros were out there for PowerPC since I recently acquired an iBook.
• Open64, the Open Research Compiler, “an open source, optimizing compiler for the Intel IA-64 (Itanium), AMD Opteron and Intel IA-32e architecture”
• GCC UPC – extensions to GCC to provide a compilation and execution environment for Unified Parallel C
  • “UPC is an extension of the C programming language designed for high-performance computing on large-scale parallel machines, including those with a common global address space (SMP and NUMA) and those with distributed memory (eg. clusters).”

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local

• http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Cincinnati – Hackerspace wiki for the currently-under-heavy-development Cincinnati Hackerspace
  • Also http://cincinnatihackspace.wikispaces.com/

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hardware

• Awesome MIPSy stuff:
  • Lemote Fulong miniPC (Linuxdevices story) – powered by a 666 MHz Loongson 2E
  • Rather similar to the $150 YellowSheepRiver “Municator” (Another Linuxdevices story) based on a 500 MHz 64-bit Godson-2
  • Lemote YeeLoong, a laptop with completely free software (including BIOS and firmware) and a power usage of about 12W, based on an 800 MHz Loongson 2F; Richard Stallman supposedly uses one of these

2009.04.30

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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?

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graphics

• http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=532&type=overview (John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more)

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links,blogs

• http://www.tanashabitat.com/ (Tana’s Habitat – a site Jane recommended for useful information about living on your own. It looks far more suited to her gender than to mine, but it still has some good advice.)

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notes,technobabble

• Perl 6 has two main interpreters:
  • Rakudo Perl which uses Parrot VM and PGE
  • Pugs which uses Haskell (and Hugs or GHC)
• Stuff about Erlang I should remember:
  • shared-nothing, async message passing
  • single assignment
  • strict or eager evaluation (as compared to lazy evaluation like in Haskell)
• Stuff about Smalltalk I should remember:
  • “Messaging” is more important than “objects”

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books

• The Burgomeister’s Books, a large library of ebooks; you have a borrowing quota but items are downloadable and in open formats
• The story of stuff, a flash video Joc sent me; it’s kind of long but worth the watch

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comic

• This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow – a webcomic and blog I first came across in Citybeat, but came across by accident later