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
- Analog Devices – Blackfin – 16/32-bit embedded core, 10-stage RISC MCU/DSP pipeline, full SIMD support
- Analog Devices – SHARC – floating-point DSP
- Administration Asserts No Fourth Amendment for Domestic Military Operations – some article from EFF
2008.04.04
- “Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn From the Past” – Lloyd Gardner, Marilyn Young (Amazon)
- Open Media Now! foundation – has the goal of open media infrastructure; apparently the same guys who made Gnash
- Ohio InfoSec
- “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements” – Eric Hoffer; published in 1951, discusses the psychological causes of fanaticism (Amazon)
- IBM Power6 at 4.7 GHz benchmarks
2008.04.09
- David Allen, Getting Things Done and GTD – some sorta organizational system that NPR’s podcast from 2008.02.20 mentioned
2008.04.11
- Ken Miller – biology professor, notable for combining evolution with belief in God and rejecting creationism and intelligent design; wrote “Finding Darwin’s God: A Scientist’s Search for Common Ground Between God and Evolution” (Amazon)
2008.04.16
- “Outline of Intellectual Rubbish” – Bertrand Russell (e-text here)
- “The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” – Naomi Klein (personal site, Amazon)
- same author: “No Logo: No Space, No Choice, No Jobs ” (Amazon)
- “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot” – Naomi Wolf… for a bit more apocalyptical point of view (Amazon)
- “War is a Racket” – Major General Smedley D. Butler – booklet/speech from 1930’s (e-text here)
- MUCS-PCB – PCB design software (GPLed) from University of Manchester
2008.04.17
- www.linuxcnc.org – software to let a PC control a CNC machine; according to archivist in #electronics on Freenode, this can use a parallel port (with some level converters and optoisolators) to control four stepper motors, and the CNC itself can be made from largely a lot of scrap parts
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