User:Woozle/linkdump

2013

• how to use pkgsrc on linux
• http://www.blockmrecords.org/bach/download.htm - free Bach downloads
• http://puredata.info/downloads - I've already forgotten what PureData is... oh, right, it's "a real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, and graphical processing." Includes packages for Raspberry Pi.
• http://lib-ray.org/reasons.html open-source alternative to Blu-Ray, which contractually requires DRM
  • XION HTPC Series XON-810PCB-RD icro ATX / Mini ITX Slim Desktop Micro ATX Media Center - can this play Lib-Ray?
• http://speckyboy.com/2013/02/04/myths-about-how-blind-people-use-the-internet/
• http://www.howtogeek.com/106526/how-to-resolve-dependencies-while-compiling-software-on-ubuntu/ - for Ubuntu
• http://www.digikey.com/us/en/techzone/wireless/resources/articles/internet-connected-wireless-networks.html?WT.z_sm_link=g+_tz_0124 - for mesh wireless (subset of mesh network)
• Deep Space Industries will compete with Planetary Resources for Asteroid Mining
• Planetary Resources Updates the Arkyd-100 space telescope
• http://sourceforge.net/projects/openupload/ "Open Upload is an open source extensible PHP application for fast file upload and download for big (and small) file sharing, like rapidshare and megaupload."
  • http://openupload.sourceforge.net/
• http://sonic.net/solutions/home/internet/fusion/ - ISP in California
• wikipedia:IEEE 802.11 -- all the wireless protocols
  • http://www.wimax.com/wimax-regulatory/what-is-unlicensed-spectrum-what-frequencies-are-they-in - WiMax
• http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/24/3801102/3d-printing-and-self-assembling-dna-revolutionize-drug-development
• git:
  • http://www.codeschool.com/courses/try-git - learning git
  • http://git-scm.com/book
    • http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Git-Basics
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/315911/git-for-beginners-the-definitive-practical-guide
• http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/msg04642.html - closest thing to "outline view" in LibreOffice
• http://opencores.org/or1k/OR1K:Community_Portal - open hardware (I think)
• https://bitbucket.org/kc5tja/kestrel - can't remember, but related
• http://www.sinatrarb.com/intro - Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort:
• http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Main_Page - OpenSimulator - for creating 3D environments (like Minecraft, but the resolution looks better)
• http://datamapper.org/why.html - a Ruby object relational mapper, which is what when it's at home?
• http://twistedsifter.com/2013/02/urban-exploration-with-chris-luckhardt/ - urban exploration
• https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Repair - Ubuntu - can be run from a liveCD
• http://archive.org/details/opensocietyandit033120mbp - free book: Karl Popper
• http://phys.org/news/2013-03-teen-compact-nuclear-reactor.html
• http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/p2p-money-transfer/2013/02/26
• http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13970_7-57571755-78/ubuntu-touch-firefox-os-and-tizen-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-new-oses/
• http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/03/len_deighton_s_bomber_the_first_book_ever_written_on_a_word_processor.single.html#pagebreak_anchor_2 - first novel written with a word processor
  • https://plus.google.com/115423900555666892711/posts/dqA7jrTKicB - Jim Henson's promotional film for the word processor
• http://www.charterbusiness.com/serviceability-service-area-map.aspx - large ISP, not sure what their service area is but they don't cover the whole US
• Solar DIY:
  • http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/02/28/466075/-Lifecycle-Costs-of-Photovoltaics
  • http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/es071763q
  • http://www.treehugger.com/solar-technology/inexpensive-diy-solar-power-the-600-kit.html
  • http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-20013704-54.html
  • http://www.freesunpower.com/
  • http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/PV/DougEnphase/DougEnphase.htm
  • related: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/02/28/466075/-Lifecycle-Costs-of-Photovoltaics
• http://hackaday.com/2013/03/06/everything-you-need-to-build-a-light-cured-resin-3d-printer/
• http://bjk5.com/post/44698559168/breaking-down-amazons-mega-dropdown - snappy JS menu
• http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/rosetta-stones/2013/03/07/living-and-sometimes-dying-with-karst/
• http://www.gizmag.com/improved-ion-engines-jet-propulsion-laboratory-erosion-lifetime/26323/
• http://www.technologyreview.com/view/512281/chinese-physicists-measure-speed-of-spooky-action-at-a-distance/ - quantum entanglement
• http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2013/03/06/unc-the-vatican-and-sovereign-grace-ministries-when-pr-trumps-concern-for-victims/
• http://www.knitpicks.com/cfBlog/post.cfm/message-from-our-ceo-matt-petkun - how to do an apology correctly
• http://extremelongevity.net/2011/12/08/drug-reverses-aging-in-brain/
• http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/
• http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/03/japanese-researchers-have-improved.html - cloning
• http://www.power2u.org/articles/trauma/ment_cope.html - mental illness is a coping mechanism
• http://fudforum.org/forum/ - another open-source forum
• http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/03/mac-malware-that-infected-facebook-bypassed-os-x-gatekeeper-protection/
• https://plus.google.com/101896915525351208408/posts/3P37apciYQR - video: using a prosthetic robot arm to tie a shoe
• http://www.cultofandroid.com/23724/how-google-could-solve-mobiles-biggest-problem/
• http://grist.org/climate-energy/the-next-big-thing-in-energy-decentralization/
• http://grist.org/climate-energy/energy-democracy-three-ways-to-bring-solar-to-the-masses/
• http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1a4ab0/alert_payattention_a_block_was_mined_that_was_too/
• http://www.reed.com/dpr/locus/OpenSpectrum/
• http://www.engadget.com/2013/03/13/feedly-rss-service-promises-seamless-transition-after-google-r/ - Google Reader replacement
  • http://theoldreader.com/posts/trending - another one
• http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23276-more-hiv-cured-first-a-baby-now-14-adults.html?cmpid=RSS
• http://www.nature.com/news/online-learning-campus-2-0-1.12590 - MOOCs
• http://www.roundagainrecordsri.com/
• http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/16-03/ff_autism?currentPage=all
• http://www.nbcnews.com/id/42460541/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/t/new-engine-sends-shock-waves-through-auto-industry/
  • http://automobileinnovations.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-wave-disk-generator-new-fuel.html
• http://meloukhia.net/2013/03/resources_on_mental_health_and_violence.html
• https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-March/036776.html - Unity development
  • https://plus.google.com/100887841569748798697/posts/4ta7FXrdoQV
  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MirSpec
• http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/03/15/2753491/beloved-duke-professor-dies-at.html James Bonk
• http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/the-future-of-javascript/
• soylent: http://soylent.me/
  • How I Stopped Eating Food
  • What’s In Soylent
  • http://www.geek.com/articles/geek-cetera/man-creates-nutritional-sludge-so-he-never-has-to-eat-again-20130314/
• http://allstreet.org/wiki
• http://www.lightleap.net/site/coverage/ - western NC wireless internet
• http://www.portbridge.com/corp/ - based in Cary; claims to offer DSL (is this current?)
  • http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/mapping-the-emerging-alternative-finance-system/2013/02/27
• http://stirtoaction.com/how-to-start-a-housing-co-op/ - may have implications for InstaGov
• http://altjs.org/ - JavaScript tools and alternatives
• http://www.thrivenc.com/smallbusiness/start-a-new-business
• http://learn.adafruit.com/raspberry-pi-as-a-media-center/
  • http://learn.adafruit.com/using-an-ir-remote-with-a-raspberry-pi-media-center/
• http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/solar-at-home/2013/03/18/should-you-add-backup-batteries-to-your-grid-tied-solar-array/
• FreeNode's parent org shutting down:
  • http://blog.freenode.net/ with a static copy at http://planet.freenode.net/
  • As a P.S. to the last global, no, we're not dying or going away. If the blog is down, you can read details at https://plus.google.com/b/104326727082310562426/104326727082310562426/posts/CMW4Gst657v thanks for flying freenode!
• http://cctrax.com/ - free creative commons music downloads (do they have an API?)
• http://www.brainpickings.org/index.php/2013/03/20/sister-rosetta-tharpe/ - Godmother of rock & roll playing electric guitar at a Manchester train station in 1964
• http://census2012.sourceforge.net/paper.html Internet Census 2012
• http://www.kurzweilai.net/bringing-a-virtual-brain-to-life
  • https://plus.google.com/u/0/105038510786613931591/posts/2JmGj7SBCqM
• http://www.alternet.org/when-women-wanted-sex-much-more-men
• http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html - IRC-to-other-chat-nets gateway
• http://www.technologyreview.com/news/512716/new-3-d-display-could-let-phones-and-tablets-produce-holograms/ - very close to actual digital holography
• http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/03/tech-time-warp-arthur-c-clarke/ - Arthur C. Clarke predicts the internet
• http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2013/03/darpa-machine-learning-2/
• http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/ieverything_i_knowi_42_hours_of_visionary_buckminster_fuller_lectures_1975.html
• http://falkvinge.net/2013/03/23/the-pirate-bay-is-a-trailblazer-in-technical-resilience/
• http://mashable.com/2013/03/23/google-alerts/ -- Google Alerts being shut down too?
• http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2013/03/23/do-big-new-brain-projects-make-sense-when-we-dont-even-know-the-neural-code/
• http://www.weareroli.com/ - new type of musical keyboard interface
• http://carpeaqua.com/2013/03/18/the-future-of-rss-isnt-another-netnewswire/ - I'm skeptical about the lack of need for RSS services
  • http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/24/bees/ - so is this person
• http://sivers.org/learn-js -- learning JavaScript
  • http://eloquentjavascript.net/contents.html - another online book
• https://brianstaskforce.com/ - bounty-based community problem-solver
• https://commotionwireless.net/
  • http://www.democracynow.org/2013/3/5/sharing_the_internet_new_commotion_wireless
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/103984595971776502972/posts/8TyYbp1mqq7 - list of correct predictions made in Stand on Zanzibar
• https://www.casascius.com/ - physical bitcoins
• http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/ Inception -- tool for cracking any computer to which you have physical access
• http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/help-us-turn-people-who-share-files-into-paying-fans - any similarities with GnuMusiq?
• http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729104.100-gene-therapy-cures-leukaemia-in-eight-days.html -- cancer
• http://blog.feedly.com/2013/04/02/announcing-the-new-feedly-mobile-and-welcoming-3-million-reader-refugees/
• http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/04/01/climate-paradox-longer-antarctic-melt-season-less-global-warming/
• http://www.universetoday.com/101093/solar-powered-plane-to-fly-across-the-us/
• http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/191-linux-training/711318-linux-foundation-training-prepares-the-international-space-station-for-linux-migration
• http://schema.org/ - "a collection of schemas, i.e., html tags, that webmasters can use to markup their pages in ways recognized by major search providers."
  • https://developers.google.com/+/web/snippet/
  • http://ogp.me/
• http://www.scribd.com/doc/94336713/Cables-2 - intercontinental internet cables
• New discovery may allow scientists to make fuel from CO2 in the atmosphere
• http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/02/tech/innovation/raspberry-pi-sale/ -- odd that they're claiming it only just became available; we got ours in December.
  • http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/28/tech/raspberry-pi-inventions-mci
• http://codesuppository.blogspot.ca/2013/04/so-your-teenager-tells-you-they-want-to.html - gaming vs. employment
• http://prng.net/blink-faq.html - Google's sneaky Chrome sabotage
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/115434645860634578491/posts/WNvCcr2Jou2 - abandoned places (photos)
• http://hotair.com/archives/2013/04/05/pope-francis-to-vatican-get-tough-on-abusers-immediately/
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/112526208786662512291/posts/bCoXir2HoqC - bipedal walking/crouching robot
• http://autisticadvocacy.org/
• http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/photon-3d-scanner
• http://www.damninteresting.com/outer-space-exposure/ - what actually happens in vacuum exposure
• http://next.inman.com/2013/02/4-reasons-google-beats-out-facebook-for-real-estate/
• http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 - Windows XP support finally to stop for real?
• https://www.advancedfictionwriting.com/articles/snowflake-method/ - fiction writing
• http://www.kurzweilai.net/breakthrough-in-hydrogen-fuel-production-could-revolutionize-alternative-energy-market
• http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/research-firm-pc-sales-plunge-windows-flops-18926235
• http://www.e-ncbroadband.org/ - interactive map of broadband availability in North Carolina
• http://www.slate.com/blogs/how_babies_work/2013/04/10/parental_ethnotheories_and_how_parents_in_america_differ_from_parents_everywhere.html?wpisrc=most_viral - parenting
• Mars in a Month? Hook Up the Fusion Drive
• wikipedia:Depressive realism "Depressive realism is the proposition that people with depression actually have a more accurate perception of reality, specifically that they are less affected by positive illusions of illusory superiority, the locus of control, and optimism bias."
• http://phys.org/news/2013-04-algae-powered-hamburg.html#jCp
• http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2013/0412-how-we-searched-for-mars-3.html
• http://www.seia.org/news/new-federal-report-shows-solar-achieved-history-march
• http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2013/04/plan-your-digital-afterlife-with.html - Google Inactive Account Manager
• http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/this-is-most-detailed-picture-internet-ever
• https://plus.google.com/105038510786613931591/posts/AVVvqMf37ND - progress in transhumanism and other areas
• http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cocktail-party-physics/2013/04/08/meet-the-mandelbulb/ - fractals in 3d
• http://stemcell.stanford.edu/CD47/ - another potential cancer cure
  • https://plus.google.com/117109546349103307995/posts/e5CNzeeCVpW
• Scientists make 'laboratory-grown' kidney
• Ordinary Skin Cells Morphed Into Functional Brain Cells
• http://www.dontfeedtheanimals.net/2013/04/living-with-adhd.html - ADHD
• http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/16/4230166/mars-one-recruiting-volunteers-in-july-one-way-trip-red-planet
• open value network
  • http://multitudeproject.blogspot.com/2013/04/open-source-hardware-meets-p2p-economy.html
  • http://www.valuenetworksandcollaboration.com/
  • http://www.sensorica.co/ -- Sensorica: example
• http://www.nature.com/ncomms/journal/v4/n4/full/ncomms2747.html
  • http://www.extremetech.com/computing/153614-new-lithium-ion-battery-design-thats-2000-times-more-powerful-recharges-1000-times-faster
  • http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22191650
• 'Survival of the Fittest' Now Applies to Computers: Surprising Similarities Found Between Genetic and Computer Codes
• http://dp.la/ - Digital Public Library of America
• http://www.nature.com/news/cancer-researchers-revisit-failed-clinical-trials-1.12835 - certain genomes may benefit from otherwise-useless cancer drugs
• http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-solar-cell-that-turns-1-photon-into-2-electrons
• http://shop.nativeseeds.org/products/ts363
• http://www.blogymate.com/About.aspx BlogyMate -- another blogging service
• http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/losing-your-google-reader-try-tiny-tiny-rss-instead/4245 -- I think I have the official site open in a tab somewhere -- it's an RSS feed server
  • http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki
• Bioengineers Build Open Source Language for Programming Cells
• The $12 Gongkai Phone
• http://www.insidescience.org/content/physicist-proposes-new-way-think-about-intelligence/987 -- artificial intelligence
• The myth of the eight-hour sleep
• http://beyondmeds.com/2011/05/03/stevienicks/ - Klonopin
• http://beagleboard.org/Products - like Raspberry Pi
• Scalable fabrication of high-power graphene micro-supercapacitors for flexible and on-chip energy storage
• http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/march/itsAnOutliner - the javascript outliner thing
• http://friendsplus.me/ - share G+ to FB, Twitter, LinkedIn
• https://rdns.im/the-pirate-bay-north-korean-hosting-no-its-fake
• http://www.celemony.com/cms/index.php?id=products_editor -- app which lets you change the key of an existing recording
• http://googleplusplatform.blogspot.com/2013/02/google-plus-sign-in.html -- sign in with Google+
  • official page
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/29/what-the-internet-looked-like-in-1995/
• http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2013/04/23/three-thoughts-on-the-fisker-debacle/
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/one-giant-leap-for-mankind-13bn-iter-project-makes-breakthrough-in-quest-for-nuclear-fusion-a-solution-to-climate-change-and-an-age-of-clean-unlimited-energy-8590480.html
• http://www.side.cr/faq - SideCar
• http://www.npr.org/2013/04/26/178846158/can-you-hear-me-now-cellphone-satellites-phone-home
• http://mashable.com/2011/12/19/ibm-mind-reading/

2011-11-02

• http://173.17.111.185/photo_album/chron/2011/2011_09_04-thinkpad_600_squeeze/
• http://173.17.111.185/photo_album/chron/2011/2011_09_07-wmbutton_lock_and_switch_desktop/
• http://173.17.111.185/photo_album/chron/2011/2011_09_12-multi_monitors_squeeze_e16/
• http://173.17.111.185/photo_album/chron/2011/2011_08_19-saving_the_right_deskspace/
• http://173.17.111.185/photo_album/chron/2011/2011_07_14-kde3_vm_integration/
• http://173.17.111.185/photo_album/chron/2011/2011_09_12-multi_monitors_squeeze_e16/
• http://iotic.com/averia/ - a nice font, but also a blog post with some interesting technical details about font files
• http://xbmc.org/ - an open-source media center that apparently doesn't suck (and apparently Medibuntu/MythTV kind of does)
• open-source laptop?
  • http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-discuss/2010-02/msg00000.html
  • wikipedia:Lemote
  • http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Projects/Lemote
• http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/xubuntu-1110-and-my-netbook
• http://diydrones.com/profiles/blogs/blutracker-long-range-bluetooth-tracker-on-indiegogo

2011-11-01

• http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2011/10/31/meet-beaglebone-the-new-89-open-source-hardware-platform/