to be filed
from HTYP, the free directory anyone can edit if they can prove to me that they're not a spambot
Deserving web sites which we haven't had time to review yet. Once reviewed, they will be properly catalogued and removed from this page.
Rich Veins
For later mining
- wikiHow: another how-to wiki. Front page of HTYP should have a link to techniques page, which should list all subcategories and have link to other how-to sites such as wikiHow.
- Sites using MediaWiki
- s23 Wiki
Links
- found 2008-08-30:
- 7-Zip: free/open source alternative to WinZip
- The Freehackers Union
- found 2008-07-06: The Solar (Power) System: equipment and stuff for wiring up solar house power
- found 2008-07-05
- 4 Lots: power inverters, backup power, solar power
- Reliance Controls 20-Amp Outdoor Transfer Switch: lets you put entire house power on an inverter
- found 2008-06-04: Monster Venture Partners: venture capital company
- found 2007-11-??
- Open Library: demo
- SpreadShirt: like CafePress
- FreeMind: Java-based thought-organizer software
- found 2007-07-20 www.gull.us: some rather interesting links
- found 2007-07-18 Our Biotech Future by Freeman Dyson: on the coming personalization of biotechnology
- found 2007-07-06 DNS testing tools including email test
- 2007-06-13 Findings Challenge Basic Views on Human Genome
- found 2007-06-11 The Ooze: "Ten million gallons of toxic gunk trapped in the Brooklyn aquifer is starting to creep toward the surface. How scary is that?" For New York, NY, ExxonMobil
- found 2007-05-25 The Age of the Essay by Paul Graham: some good starter material for articles on history, history of education, and probably other topics. From footnotes to another essay: "I could never understand why, for example, Portuguese "explorers" had started to work their way along the coast of Africa. In fact, they were after slaves. Bovill, Edward, The Golden Trade of the Moors, Oxford, 1963."
- found 2007-05-04 (published 2003) CDDB: Feel the Pain by Jamie Zawinski
- 2007-04-26 Why Instant Messaging Beats other Communication Forms: need article on communication forms under communiction; include links to telephone and instant messaging. telephone should include link to phone phobia.
- 2007-02-01 Lycos Deletes All Of Customer's Email, Tells 'Em To Suck It
- found last year: Open Web Design: freely copyable web design templates (for web design or creating web sites page)
- and then FrozenTrout said: OSWD
- found 2007-01-11: Odessa, Ukraine wiki; Solepedia sneaker encyclopedia wiki
- found 2007-01-02: Connexions: environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly (educational) content on the Web; Creative Commons licensed.
- found 2006-12-06 (dated 2003-10-08): The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) By Joel Spolsky: for eventual articles on character sets and unicode; maybe a mention on PHP about lack of character support
- found 2006-12-03: Power Curve technology: continuously-variable shifters and suchlike
- found 2006-11-27: Absolute and relative names: the current Internet page should be two different pages: The Internet, for internet-as-place, and internet, for technical stuff
- found 2006-11-18: wikilaw (somewhat under-populated) and JurisPedia: for eventual section on law
- found 2006-11-15: Vietnam in Pictures
- found 2006-09-18: English Russia, a blog about Russia in English; highlight: pictures of Chernobyl. For eventual Russia page
- found 2006-09-17: gethuman: "advocacy for high quality customer service for consumers"; includes database of how companies handle phone calls
- found 2006-09-16: Dr. Larry D. Rosen: includes studies (in PDF) of teen usage of MySpace (link from parenting, too)
- found 2006-07-31: StartupNation: for (small) business article?
- 2006-07-25: Nice Rats, Nasty Rats: Maybe It’s All in the Genes: Russian experiments in planned domestication (rats, foxes)
- 2006-07-19: Dogs Itching To Try Homeopathic Remedies for eventual homeopathy or alternative medicine article
- 2006-07-12: Would You Eat Lab-Grown Meat? by Traci Hukill, AlterNet
- found 2006-06-29: Dental Amalgams and CFIDS: Harmless Fillings — or Toxic Concern?: for eventual article(s) on Health: Chronic Fatigue; Dental Health
- found 2006-06-20: MachinesLikeUs.com
- 2006-06-05: Drinking coffee makes you more open-minded
- found 2006-05-28: VinOpinions: wine-tasting wiki (for eventual food section)
- found 2006-05-25: Lojban (wiki): for eventual humanities/languages page
- 2006-04-25: hoax-buster.org: perhaps for a page about Just Plain Wacky sites?
- 2006-04-07: students make biodiesel: if it's that easy, then htyp should have an article on how to do it.
- 2006-04-05: a bill Microsoft Corp. helped write ... will open your personal information to warrantless searches
- found 2006-03-21: [1] for Java page
- found 2006-03-20: WikiRecipes: file under food: cooking: recipes
- rediscovered 2006-03-15: New Pants Publishing Inc. and Old Pants Publishing Inc.
- 2006-03-12: The Twists and Turns of History, and of DNA: a bit of background on the history of lactose tolerance, among other things
- found 2006-03-07:
- What Corporate Projects Should Learn from Open Source for Programming page
- gasoline safety: general info on storage & disposal
- found 2006-02-28:
- Deep Ellum: list of bands and list of links for Dallas, TX
- 2006-02-13: The Secret Cause of Flame Wars: psychology section? I would say, however, that the circumstances of the study pretty much removed any context by which the reader might have correctly determined the email's tone, and such context is generally present in most real interactions. The study does explain, however, how email read by an outsider can be drastically misinterpreted.
- found 2006-02-12 (by Tenebram):
- found 2006-01-12 Concordia Station, Antarctica
- 2006-01-06 'Robot agents' to help settle disputes: perhaps for article on dispute settlement
- http://www.cityofmyrtlebeach.com/
- found 2006-01-04
- Personal Telco Project: public WiFi in Portland, OR
- Portland Linux/Unix Group (Portland, OR)
- Will Plain-Text Ads Continue to Rule?: could be useful for explaining HTYP's philosophy about advertising -- i.e. don't advertise; provide information.
- found 2005-12-28
- Greater Toronto Area Business Buzz directory for Toronto, Canada
- Nick Bostrom: lots of essays on generally futuristic/transhumanistic themes
- found 2005-12-23 Kathryn Cramer: She's a blogger! She's an SF writer/anthologist! She's political! Where do I file this?
- 2005-12-21 Afrotecnik: for eventual Africa page
- found 2005-12-18 Arthur Morgan School, Burnsville, NC
- found 2005-12-13 Oil States, Arlington, TX (manufacturer?)
- 2005-12-06 Researchers Show Traditional Chinese Exercises Can Help Combat Diabetes: for eventual page(s) on "alternative" medicine (Tai Chi, Acupuncture, Homeopathy, etc.)?
- found 2005-12-06:
- http://www.lulu.com/ - publish-on-demand service for books and more
- Tesla Technology Research: not so much Electronics as... Electrical Engineering?
- 2005-12-03 http://www.gnn.tv/headlines/6404/Torture_Is_Widespread_in_China for eventual China page
- 2005-11-26 Groove Productions, Nashville, TN
- 2005-11-22:
- http://tchin.org/ for eventual Health section?
- http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/DNS-HOWTO-5.html networking: how to create local pseudo-domains
- 2005-11-20:
- http://althistory.wikicities.com/ alternative history wiki
- http://answers.wikicities.com/ WikiAnswers: ask and answer questions
- http://audioengineering.wikicities.com/ Audio Engineering wiki
- http://audiorecording.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page Audio Recording wiki
- http://australia.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page Australia wiki
- http://bestpractices.wikicities.com/wiki/Main_Page Best Practices wiki - networking
- http://www.risks.org/ Risks Digest: Forum on Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/13/pirates_set_sail/ some possible clues about the future of music-sharing and copyright
- 2005-11-19: http://charo.guam.net/ - for eventual Guam page
- 2005-11-14: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051110084016.htm -- possibly for an article on infant development?
- 2005-11-08: http://www25.brinkster.com/ranmath/pages01/frauds.htm -- bogus debunking
- 2005-11-07:
- 2005-10-25
- Streetlightmanifesto: a band
- What Is Web 2.0
- 2005-10-28: Organic Design - philosophy? interdisciplinary? global solutions? software?
- 2005-09-01 or thereabouts - related to headwear for chemotherapy patients with hair loss (Hats With Heart Contest at http://nchealthywoman.org):
- 2005-05-28 11 steps to a better brain: possible fodder for eventual Health section
