User:Woozle/linkdump

2014-05-23 HogThrob

• https://plus.google.com/u/0/+MichaelDubnik/posts/SV7G3EgW188 - guy relocating to NC, looking for area tips
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/111154983094359759909/posts/9MbTGy4E9Uj - introducing Argumenta.io
• http://www.obamaconspiracy.org/2014/05/fox-news-leads-media-blackout-of-operation-american-spring/
• http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/5/16/5723880/france-uk-run-out-of-fossil-fuels-next-five-years
• http://www.kosmosjournal.org/article/new-global-governance-is-in-the-making-and-it-looks-good/
• ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment
• http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/re-decentralizing-the-internet/2014/05/16
  • redecentralize.org
• http://www.theclimategroup.org/what-we-do/news-and-blogs/worlds-largest-solar-pv-plant-now-online-coincides-with-new-us-commitments-to-solar-expansion/
• http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-red-stateblue-state-divide-deepens - Obamacare
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/+Fairfaxclimatewatch/posts/BcwMgegyCYb - chart: sea level rise estimates
  • http://www.fairfaxclimatewatch.com/blog/2013/12/worst-case-sea-level-rise.html
• http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/verizon-att-forcing-customers-off-landline-phones-complaint-says/
• http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/heres-how-not-to-get-sued-when-reviewing-online-products/
• http://www.skepticalscience.com/water-vapor-greenhouse-gas.htm - how water vapor contributes to global warming
• America’s Oil And Gas Industry Averaged At Least 20 Spills Per Day In 2013
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PamelaZuppo/posts/VD449zxB8C1 - Methane is 120x as potent a greenhouse gas as CO2
• http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681422/robots-can-now-tend-your-garden-for-you
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/116665417191671711571/posts/djop4L1BaK7 - David Brin - NASA launches orbiting carbon observatory
• www.outsideonline.com/fitness/bodywork/performance-plate/Your-Food-Is-Poisoning-You.html
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PamelaZuppo/posts/Uzjtwq3gmNN - "This Is What a Holy Shit Moment for Global Warming Looks Like" - Antarctic ice sheet collapse
• makezine.com/projects/make-38-cameras-and-av/build-a-wireless-ergo-mouse/ - use Sugru to make a custom-shaped wireless mouse
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KeeHinckley/posts/hie6ne6APa4 - Yonatan Zunger - how the USPS killed digital forwarding
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/100797452184452948613/posts/7cEj3gHtHqY - Blueseed - residential ship off the coast of Silicon Valley
• http://aattp.org/yes-we-can-heres-how-activists-took-down-citizens-united-in-two-states-video/ - WolfPAC takes down Citizens United in 2 states
• www.the-vital-edge.com/regenerative-business/
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/+RogueBlack/posts/8rrUst2J94X - the patriarchy at the corporate executive level
• firedoglake.com/2014/04/20/thomas-pikketys-different-approach-to-economics/
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/102282887764745350285/posts/AixXCDGMQx4 - (me) - crowdsourced reputation management

2014-05-10

• AI stuff:
  • http://gigaom.com/2013/08/16/were-on-the-cusp-of-deep-learning-for-the-masses-you-can-thank-google-later/ - open source semantic text parser?
    • http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/08/learning-meaning-behind-words.html
  • 2014-06-08 Turing Test success marks milestone in computing history
    • http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10884839/Computer-passes-Turing-Test-for-the-first-time-after-convincing-users-it-is-human.html
• http://conceptnet5.media.mit.edu/ - database of common-sense knowledge (like Cyc?)
• http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1t21cj/what_would_be_required_for_an_snmlsntp_federated/ - Morbius wants "a [scalable] tool / place to have intelligent conversations with smart people"
• https://gnunet.org/gns-implementation - GNU Name system - distributed DNS?
• http://b.agilob.net/such-address-many-dig-on-linux-wow/ - Dogecoin on Linux
• http://opensource.com/life/14/2/creative-commons-enables-return-glitch - Glitch game open sourced
  • http://elevengiants.com/ - the resurrection team
• https://stripe.com/docs/tutorials/checkout -- Stripe credit card processing integration guide
• https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DanielSchudel/posts/Fh7Lz6JXfb1 - long video segment about the American Tobacco Trail bridge
• http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/sane-devel/2004-February.txt - explanation of color space and color correction in Linux
• http://libertreeproject.org/ - another open-source social netowork. No mention of distributed-ness.
• https://movim.eu/ - distributed social network
• http://threads2.scripting.com/2013/february/goodSoftwareDesignIsAgeless - software design and feature removal
• http://home.opml.org/ - OPML outline editor is open-source, but it seems to be a desktop-only app... with no Linux version
• http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki - open source web-based news feed (RSS/Atom) reader and aggregator - I think I've copied this link before...
• http://www.thrivenc.com/smallbusiness/start-a-new-business - starting a new business in NC
• http://www.breaknenter.org/projects/inception/ - tool for recovering passwords
• http://valueappeal.com/ - property tax appeal service
• http://carolinagrown.org/index.php - local food delivery
• http://www.greenbuttonfarm.com/
• http://www.benefitsapplication.com/program_info/NC/Food%20Stamps/?gclid=m - apply for food stamps in NC
  • http://www.benefits.gov/benefits/benefit-details/1389 - NC food stamp program
• https://plex.tv/features - media client/server app, seems to be open source
• http://dconc.gov/index.aspx?page=244 - Durham County Swap Shop
• http://www.availlang.org/about-avail/learn/index.html - a new programming language
• music fan-artist connection sites:
  • http://www.pledgemusic.com/learn/artists - oriented towards funding projects (album, video...)
  • http://www.patreon.com/ - not just for music
  • http://www.artistsintheplus.com/#!submit-music/cxdk - artists have to friend/circle them, however
• http://wush.net/trac/rangepublic - "OpenBTS is a Unix application that uses a software radio to present a GSM air interface to standard 2G GSM handset and uses a SIP softswitch or PBX to connect calls." Not sure what that means, but it sounds interesting.
• http://btat.wagnerone.com/search.php - Bands That Allow Taping (searchable database)
• LiquidFeedback interactive democracy
• Radically Cheap: The Story of Pat Delany, Open Source Machine Tools Advocate
  • h/t

2014-04-22

• Secret door bookcase

2014-04-17

Emergency tabdump from HogThrob

• https://help.riseup.net/en/about-us/projects#tech-collective-incubation-project - something I should be invovled with, somehow; possible home for Issuepedia & HTYP?
• http://www.politicalears.com/blog/something-huge-just-happened-and-the-mainstream-media-is-ignoring-it/ "Last week Michigan's legislature voted and passed a resolution calling for a Constitutional Convention. They are the 34th state to do so, and this should trigger the Convention of the States."
• http://boilingfrogs.info/2012/11/08/guy-standing-precariat-angry/
• http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/04/10/data-act-passes-senate-presidents-desk-on-the-horizon/#gplus
• http://www.tni.org/briefing/tragedy-private-potential-public - de-privatization
• http://www.cnet.com/news/at-t-poised-to-take-gigabit-fiber-broadband-to-north-carolina/
• https://www.crowdsupply.com/kosagi/novena-open-laptop
• http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/22k71x/us_navy_electricitytofuel_synthesis_papers_and/
• http://www.wikihouse.cc/
• http://www.resilience.org/stories/2011-05-18/review-user%E2%80%99s-guide-crisis-civilization-nafeez-mosaddeq-ahmed
• http://www.resilience.org/stories/2014-03-19/the-global-transition-tipping-point-has-arrived-vive-la-r-volution
• http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/the-rise-of-decentralized-renewable-energy-is-happening-faster-than-anticipated/2014/03/30
• http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/03/20/virginias-behind-the-scenes-transportation-planning-revolution/

2014-04-16

Non-Issuepedia stuff on Gonzo

• http://www.howtogeek.com/51237/setting-up-a-vpn-pptp-server-on-debian
  • https://plus.google.com/u/0/112229754065294902692/posts/c8GFcfGjrPg
• http://gethuman.com/ - unpublicized customer support phone numbers
• http://www.kurzweilai.net/wolfram-research-a-personal-introduction-to-wolfram-language-by-stephen-wolfram-phd
• http://www.streetjelly.com/faq - live performance internet service
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7OEzyEfzgg Feynman on Wave Particle Duality (QED Lecture in New Zealand)]
  • plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-entangle/

2014-03-27

emergency linkdump from HogThrob

• http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/179296-humans-will-be-kept-between-life-and-death-in-the-first-suspended-animation-trials
  • https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PaulaRizzuto/posts/UGDNsBkKTSY
• http://time.com/37055/supreme-court-women-dominate-arguments-on-contraception-coverage/
  • https://plus.google.com/u/0/112789599669554150157/posts/PptUNvnkW8j
• http://www.thismess.net/2014/03/queen-victoria-working-mom.html- the, um, something effect
  • https://plus.google.com/u/0/112789599669554150157/posts/5ePUg7hFQQM
• http://socialistworker.org/2014/03/27/hobby-lobby-makes-choices-for-women
  • https://plus.google.com/u/0/104846484450220527580/posts/DwN7cP5mq81
• http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/03/the-conservative-myth-of-a-social-safety-net-built-on-charity/284552/
  • https://plus.google.com/u/0/+KeeHinckley/posts/cApse8utD36
• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/islamic-law-to-be-enshrined-in-british-law-as-solicitors-get-guidelines-on-sharia-compliant-wills-9210682.html
• http://economyincrisis.org/content/why-do-we-accept-our-failed-political-system-2
  • https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PoliticaldiscussionsforamericaBlogspot/posts/WzG6J425UbC
• http://falkvinge.net/2014/03/24/my-address-to-the-european-pirates/ - covers a lot of interesting ground
  • http://www.worldofends.com/
    • http://www.isen.com/stupid.html
      • http://www.rageboy.com/stupidnet.html
• http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/from-the-communism-of-capital-to-a-capital-for-the-commons/2014/03/22
  • https://plus.google.com/116589201391591303703/posts/857X3JMTPLK
• http://www.thenation.com/article/177614/coming-instant-planetary-emergency# - global warming catastrophism
• http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/mar/19/global-warming-accurate-prediction-1972
• http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/03/how-robots-will-work-with-us-isnt-only-a-technological-question/
  • https://plus.google.com/u/0/+FranklinStonewantspeace/posts/imqN65Hmu9L

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
• 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.alexwg.org/publications/PhysRevLett_110-168702.pdf - artificial intelligence - original paper
  • http://www.insidescience.org/content/physicist-proposes-new-way-think-about-intelligence/987
  • http://io9.com/how-skynet-might-emerge-from-simple-physics-482402911
• 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/
• http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/28/square-updates-its-register-ipad-app-with-kitchen-tickets-ordering-features-to-better-serve-restaurants/
• http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/claiming-freedom-is-worth-it/Content?oid=3623995
• http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/bitcoin-as-a-non-legitmate-investment-vehicle/2013/04/29
• http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2013/04/bitcoin-as-a-publishing-system-from-wikileaks-to-pedophile-links.html
• http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/299-190/17170-no-rich-child-left-behind
• Fargo outliner:
  • http://fargo.io/
  • http://www.gravitropic.net/2013/04/fargo-solves-outline-syncing-and-sharing/

May

• http://scienceblog.com/62678/ucsb-researchers-successfully-treat-autism-in-infants/
• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/opinion/krugman-the-antisocial-network.html?smid=go-share Bitcoin
  • http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2013/04/18/the-fiat-emperor-has-no-clothes/
• http://phys.org/news/2013-04-high-fructose-corn-syrup-tied-worldwide.html - HFCS bad for bees, who knew
• http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/05/css-selectors-as-superpowers.html - JQuery, CSS
• http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/17036427/mum-sad-ashamed-before-shower-deaths/ - depression - just dealing with it is sometimes not the best option
• http://cylance.com/techblog/Googles-Buildings-Hackable.shtml
• http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/breakthrough-in-solar-efficiency-by-unsw-team-ahead-of-its-time-20130505-2j117.html
• http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/05/_tiger_mom_study_shows_the_parenting_method_doesn_t_work.html
• http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/5506/20130312/bioteeth-stemcells-will-regrow-complete-tooth-superior-implants.htm
• http://www.airfuelsynthesis.com/investment-opportunity/projects/1-tonne-a-day-plant-.html
  • http://www.airfuelsynthesis.com/sustainable-transport/motor-sport.html
• http://windfuels.com/ - Columbia, SC
• The copyright term calculator
• http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/155392-international-space-station-switches-from-windows-to-linux-for-improved-reliability
• http://www.techwench.com/scientists-invent-oxygen-particle-that-if-injected-allows-you-to-live-without-breathing/
• http://www.gizmag.com/invelox-wind-generator/27377/
• http://news.yahoo.com/5-ways-motherhood-changed-over-time-201606024.html - parenting
• http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/the-philosophy-of-simcity-an-interview-with-the-games-lead-designer/275724/
• http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2013/04/17/can-caesar-rescue-obamas-energy-legacy/
• http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/science-sushi/2013/05/26/dolphin-assisted-birth-possibly-the-worst-idea-ever/ -- the dark side of dolphins

June

• http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/01/mozilla-readies-major-firefox-redesign-as-it-ponders-what-the-browser-of-the-future-should-look-like/
• http://www.businessinsider.com/mckinsey-disruptive-technology-report-2013-6
• http://phys.org/news/2013-06-all-solid-sulfur-based-battery-outperforms-lithium-ion.html
• http://learn.adafruit.com/how-to-start-a-hackerspace-the-list/
• http://litecoin.org/
• http://www.mobisante.com/ - world's first smartphone-based medical ultrasound system
• http://www.clarianpower.com/solar.html
• http://www.ecoworld.com/energy-fuels/how-much-solar-energy-hits-earth.html
• http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/06/06/technology-schmeat-in-vitro-meat-burger.html
• http://www.kijanigrows.com/ - aquaponics
• http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-quickly-generate-a-large-quantity-of-personalized-nerve-cells
• Internet Radio Linking Project
• http://blog.rmi.org/blog_2013_5_14_As_Solar_PV_Efficiency_Climbs_Costs_Likely_To_Drop
• http://physicsdatabase.com/book-list-by-title/ - free science text books
• http://newscenter.lbl.gov/news-releases/2013/06/04/roman-concrete/
• http://learn.adafruit.com/onion-pi/overview
• H.G. Wells:
  • http://archive.org/details/OutlineOfHistory
  • http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201081.txt
• https://www.consumercellular.com/ - no-contract cellphones. $10/mo. Has a device where you can use regular phones over a cellphone connection.
• http://www.insidescience.org/content/physicist-proposes-new-way-think-about-intelligence/987
  • http://www.alexwg.org/publications/PhysRevLett_110-168702.pdf - original paper
• http://jobs.care2.com/a/all-jobs/list/q-mysql/l-27705 - decent-looking job-search site with filters for social responsibility
• http://www.niskayunaco-op.com/
• http://www.hwfc.com/
• http://organichomegrown.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/all-about-bottle-tower-gardens.html -- bottle tower garden
• http://dirrogate.com/realtime-photorealistic-human-skin-rendering/
• https://www.zidisha.org/ -- p2p microfinance
• http://makezine.com/2013/06/24/how-to-led-photo-lights/
• http://www.mutinee.com/ - indy film-sharing network
• http://ninth-street.blogspot.com/2012/02/is-burying-power-lines-in-durham-pipe.html
• https://www.facebook.com/RosesMeatandSweets?ref=ts
• https://www.facebook.com/bigspoonroasters
• http://www.ncdot.gov/bikeped/planning/walkbikenc/
  • http://www.ncdot.gov/bikeped/download/WalkBikeNC_Summary_Draft.pdf
• http://northstate.net/about-us - NC broadband: "High Point, Thomasville, Archdale, Randleman, Jamestown, Trinity, Greensboro, Kernersville and beyond."

July

• https://plus.google.com/117903011098040166012/posts/RxEXMvrCWGk - this explains part of the "particle" nature of light
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-vienna/latest-parenting-trend-ctfd-method_b_3588031.html?utm_hp_ref=tw - parenting
• 1999-04-09 How NSA access was built into Windows
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2372792/Sure-real-thing-GREEN-Coke-launched-Argentina-natural-sweetener-fully-recyclable-bottle.html
• Women: Know Your Limits! Harry Enfield - BBC comedy - humorous feminism
• https://plus.google.com/116504210958075544714/posts/izYWLjxTnHh -- encounter with Bull City Burger
• http://durhamnewsservicemainfeed.blogspot.com/

August

• http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2013/07/26/mit-proves-inception-is-real-mouse-research-and-other-really-cool-research-coming-out-of-universities/ - editing memories/associations
• http://inthecapital.streetwise.co/2012/08/13/engineering-magic-virginia-tech-students-create-3-d-dreamvendor/ - 3d printing dispenser
• http://www.friendsjournal.org/we-think-he-might-be-a-boy/ - gender identity
• http://thenextweb.com/google/2013/08/02/google-the-freaky-line-and-why-moto-x-is-a-game-changer/
• http://www.spacedevcoop.com/
• http://www.wikihouse.cc/
• http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/08/dating-on-the-autism-spectrum/278340/
• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/05/aspergers-autism-brain-differences_n_3707791.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
• http://jezebel.com/how-not-to-react-to-the-news-that-bradley-manning-is-tr-1182604480
• http://www.zdnet.com/your-perilous-future-on-windows-xp-7000019721/?s_cid=e539&ttag=e539
• http://www.kurzweilai.net/3d-graphene-could-replace-expensive-platinum-in-solar-cells
• http://www.opscode.com/chef/#how-works
• Durham Central Market:
  • http://www.heraldsun.com/news/x177810692/Planning-Commission-endorses-Self-Help-project
  • http://durham.io/2013/06/05/local-jackass-continues-to-oppose-dcm-parking-lot-bid/
  • http://durham.io/2013/08/27/protest-petition-revealed-as-source-of-dcm-self-help-rezoning-delay/

September

• http://www.toolsforgreenliving.com/2013/09/Manufacturing-Solar-Cells-Using-Cheap-And-Accessible-Materials-Spray-On-Application.html
• http://www.flutterwireless.com/ - arduino-based open source wireless hardware platform
• A Theory of Community Formation
• https://github.com/mitechie/Bookie - open source social bookmarking

October

• http://www.open-electronics.org/maker-faire-rome-how-to-remake-the-world-conference-recap/
• https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/web/public/home
• http://pckeyboard.com/ - makers of the original Model M
• http://www.prometheusradio.org/about_us
• http://io9.com/9-ruined-cities-that-remain-a-mystery-to-this-day-1239294825
  • http://abandonednyc.com/2012/06/10/in-gowanus-batcave-teenage-dreams-live-and-die/
• http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090624121706AASg7oh - how to dig a tunnel
• http://www.offgridbox.it/ENG/PURCHASE.html
• https://bitmessage.org/wiki/Main_Page - P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers.

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/