updated 2001-04-18.
This is a typical poorly-maintained overflow link farm. I'm just using this as my personal hot list. See what I find interesting. If I really feel motivated, some of the sections may bud off into their own pages.
Contents:
Related pages:
Off Ramp (weekly updates of Developer Network News):
Making tabs and spaces visible in Microsoft Visual Studio:
The help page claims that "Show white space. Display and hide spaces and tab marks. Hold down CTRL and press RW" "Show or hide spaces and tabs (toggle). Hold down CTRL and press RW" but that doesn't seem to do anything for me.
Eventually I discovered: Alt+e a w (Edit | Advanced | View Whitespace) which indicates the shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+8 .
Here are people that I find interesting, but they don't quite fit in any of my other subject-oriented pages.
http://www.iblowbubbles.com/ part of Operation Positive Energy People (with skip-happy Kim Corbin )a self-proclaimed superhero for social justice ... science teacher ... Captain Density ... Bubble Man ...
You had to be there to understand the humor here.
[FIXME: list songs I have strong opinions on here ? why ?]
"My place in this world"
"Learning how to love this woman: How do I love her ?"
"The smell of the color nine"
I (DAV) have recently been interested in writing haiku. I think it's mostly my interest in compression, plus Douglas Hofstadter's book about poetry and translation book.html#le_ton .
related to lossy text compression data_compression.html#lossy .
Bankrupt WorldCom resists breakup
When people see that
the big companies are worth
little or nothing
2004-01-18:DAV: Hebrews 13:16 adjusted to fit haiku form
2003-04-20:DAV: Luke 12:32 adjusted to fit haiku form
2002-04-03:DAV
2002-12-09:DAV (after hearing Emily Donagan tell about video interviews accidentally erased by airport security equipment)
Here's some high-tech haiku others have written: [FIXME: cat haiku]
Haiku for wrong page landing This page has now moved please wait until the page shifts or click on word leave :-)
Your Windows woes continue
No end in sight
Salvation comes
iMacasbestos suit is donned
cooling fans on full
I calmly wait the flames
-- http://www.cryptonomicon.com/text.htmlThe modern world's hell on haiku writers: ``Electrical generator'' is, what, eight syllables? You couldn't even fit that onto the second line!
The Web site you seek
cannot be located but
endless others exist.
How to make core bits Have less impedance with disk? The question misleads. When disks are not slow, When core is not volatile, Similarity. Iff Properties cohere, then share Representation.-- David Long Tue, 17 Mar 1998 http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/mar98/0276.html [fixme: maybe I need to split out a haiku section ?]
haiku ... What is this American fascination with bludgeoning a formerly elegant Japanese poetic form, suited primarily to the Japanese language, to death? Is it some sort of perverse atonement for overdecisively ending the second world war? haiku is pointless cherry blossoms fall culturally obnoxious cherry blossoms fall and fall complete waste of time cherry blossoms fall [*] [*] four obligatory seasonal references in that one. L.-- Lloyd Wood Tue, 24 Mar 1998 http://www.xent.com/FoRK-archive/mar98/0384.html
DAV really enjoyed reading this.
... It changed the world, it changed our consciousness and lives to have such fast math ... Reader! Think not that technical information ought not be called speech; think not diagrams, schematics, tables, numbers, formulae -- like the terrifying and uniquely moving, though cliche, Einstein equation ... And sometimes we write to machines to teach them how tasks are carried out: and sometimes we write to our friends to show a way tasks are carried out. We write precisely since such is our habit in talking to machines; we say exactly how to do a thing or how every detail works. ... Reader, see how yet technical communicants deserve free speech rights; see how numbers, rules, patterns, languages you don't yourself speak yet, still should in law be protected from suppression, called valuable speech! ...
Fall is in the air But alas, so is pollen I sneeze my head off.
Indian Summer! Autumnal Equinox joy! Hey leaves- come on down!
[FIXME: crosslink : compression; languages]...
Today, it is common in the West to write haiku as a three-line poem. It creates a different space from the Japanese haiku that is written in one vertical line ...
... We wish to openly welcome those poems from all over the world that possess the haiku spirit. ... We feel that in all languages, including English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Korean, Arabic and Spanish, we can find ways to condense diction for the purpose of poetic expression. We also believe that an understanding of the value of silence will greatly contribute to the broadening of poetic space in each language. We hope that the poets of the world will share the achievements of the Japanese haiku masters with us and that they will take part in this poetic movement to resolutely pursue ways to condense their own language.
In syllabic verse, Flat, staccato sound is best -- English is not so.-- John W. Kennedy http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=6086e4e6b136aa561811a29fb1799001&threadid=160191
refers to HAIKU for PEOPLE http://www.toyomasu.com/haiku/
If computer errors were written as haikus Three things are certain: Death, taxes and lost data. Guess which has occurred. The file you need might be very useful. But now it is gone Windows NT crashed. I am the Blue Screen of Death. No one hears your screams. Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that. Chaos reigns within. Reflect, repent, reboot. Order shall return. Wind catches lily, scattering petals to the ground. Segmentation fault. With searching comes loss and the presence of absence: File not found. The Web site you seek cannot be located but endless others exist. You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. This page is not here. Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire. The network is down. You step in the stream, but the water has moved on. The page is not here. No keyboard present. Press F1 to continue. Zen engineering. This site has moved. We`d tell you where, but then we`d have to delete you. First snow, then silence. This thousand dollar screen dies so beautifully. Printer not ready. Could be a fatal error. Have a pen handy?http://humor.rin.ru/cgi-bin/humor/english/show.pl?razdel=2&podrazd=&sort=id&on_page=1&start=1&page=4
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which also mentions
Short, terse, unfriendly,
Yet sometimes quite emotive;
I am the Haiku.
[FIXME: move to dav_info ?]
http://euro.net/mark-space/ failing PowerBook
http://www.jitterbug.com/brennan/ transhuman, devastating humor, somewhat cynical, a good list of "braincandy" links (including Go),
Habitat for Humanity http://www.habitat.org/
Funny and Intellectual Women on the Web http://www.amazing.com/david/women.html mirror at http://amazing.freelink.net/cgi-bin/get-category?118
Gerald Sussman's talk on Amorphous Computing (with interesting annotation feature) http://world.std.com/~wware/sussman.html
Interesting story about improving the process by eliminating computers. http://world.std.com/~fhapgood/texts/lantech.html http://world.std.com/~fhapgood/
Hal Berghel http://www.acm.org/~hlb
(?) http://www.geocities.com/Paris/8254/roman.html
virtual gifts http://members.tripod.com/~Euphoricminds/presents.html
fascinating web page Robert Finn -- Science writer and editor finn at nasw.org -- http://nasw.org/finn http://rdrop.com/~sunlab/ "Raven had no time to cry out, no time to do anything, no time at all, before he was in black. He was worse than dead. He was off-line. " -- Jason Snell jsnell at ucsd.edu http://www.etext.org/Zines/Quanta/beings.html
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/
"Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance" http://www.religioustolerance.org/
http://www.dspbios.com/ "a collection of useful software primitives that DSP developers can call upon. These primitive routines and handlers -- "managers" in DSP/BIOS-speak -- include a basic tasking system that provides a pre-emptive scheduler for real-time threaded applications ... core I/O routines for managing real-time data streams ... debugging ... "
Dr. Steve O'Neil <steveo at micromo.com> of Micro Mo Electronics, Inc. in article "Bird-Doggin' the Internet" article in _designfax_ digest 1997 Dec. "Most of the past Bird-Doggin' articles we've printed, with updated URLs and links, can be found at http://www.micromo.com/related.html/ ." National Laboratories
Ontology http://mnemosyne.itc.it:1024/ontology.html A list of projects, people, conferences and specific resources on Ontology and related fields.
U.S.Consumer Product Safety Commision (CPSC) http://www.cpsc.gov/
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 13:57:47 -0800 (PST) From: John K Clark <johnkc at well.com> To: extropians at lucifer.com Subject: NEURO: Advanced Neurons? Sender: postmaster at extropy.org Precedence: bulk Reply-To: extropians at extropy.org Status: U -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >ME: >Moravec assumed 10 bits per synapse, also quite reasonable at the >time but we now know that's way too high. >Lee Daniel Crocker <lcrocker at calweb.com>: >What mean "we", kemo sabe? At the present state of neuroscience, I >wouldn't be comfortable pinning that down even to within 3-4 orders >of magnitude. By "we" I mean those who have read the article by Dan Madison and Erin Schuman In the January 28 1994 issue of Science, as I've been urging all to do for the last several years. I've talked about it about 19 dozen times so I won't do so do it again. >In fact, I'm not sure I'd even be comfortable quantizing at /any/ >level what is surely an analog process. Analog processes do not exist, never have never will. John K Clark johnkc at well.com
http://www.wiskit.com/postscript/quicktips/ PostScript Quick Tips "Magic Words" (single words recognized in a web browser) (I think I first saw this concept on http://www.wordmagic.com/accesswdp/magic.html but that is no longer online) : television geezer (snow gear) blanket thorax cyclery somewhere // cool art lego real superflash // does this count as 1 word ? tiny amused agnostic datum guru extinctions stockmaster reformed microsoft transhuman non-magic-words: propane zen
survival instinct
... >De: Ettinger <ettinger at aol.com> >Objet: Saul Kent's View >Date : jeudi 30 avril 1998 01:43 ... >7. Saul speaks of the "intense desire for survival on the part of >virtually >everyone on earth," and our "failure" in spite of this. I have often >pointed >out that the so-called "survival instinct" is reliable only in clear and > >present danger--and even then only if the individual is still relatively > >healthy and vigorous. If the danger is indirect, or remote in time, or >if the >person is weak or depressed--or even if required action would violate >established habits--forget the "survival instinct." It isn't that >simple. ... ... >Robert Ettinger >Cryonics Institute >Immortalist Society >http://www.cryonics.org > >P.S. Last week CI suspended another pet cat. That brings our pet patient > >population to 4 cats and 4 dogs. We also have 26 humans, all whole-body.
[Abraham H. Maslow's frequently-cited theory of motivation ... self-preservation]"... ... ...
... we must clear away certain fallacies widely held among "educated" laymen, ... such as the notion that the most powerful of our drives are those related to survival, food, and sex. For people to risk their lives, and to abstain from food and sex in varying degree in response to social pressure, individual idiosyncrasy, or mere habit, is more the rule than the exception. ... there is the idea among many laymen that needs and appetites are always well correlated; but P. T. Young points out that this is not so, e.g. that when a rat's diet is deficient in magnesium, it may actually develop an aversion to the needed element. ..."
comparing people who believe to others [FIXME: What's really the important thought(s) here ? Delete the rest.]
see creed.html#about
(unknown) stated: >>>>I think that "the God Hypothesis" is testable >>>>and helps explain a lot of things at least as >>>>well as any other model, and better than most. In response, (unknown) replied: >>>Well, *if* it is testable, perhaps. >>>Do you know of a technically feasible >>>way to test it? Physically, I mean, since >>>otherwise you have to show that non-physical >>>"objects" can exist first, adding a layer of >>>complexity that is otherwise unnecessary. In response, Randall replied: >To: christlib at swcp.com >Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 18:55:05 -0400 >Subject: Re: Christlib: The Elephant and the Kangaroo >From: <rrandall6 at juno.com> (Randall R Randall) ... >As I define Objective Morality as that set of >rules which are the same for all persons >(to satisfy William's razor), and which result >in the longest lifespan, and greatest >satisfaction, of those who use it. By this >definition, we should look to see if people >with belief in God tend to live longer and >see themselves as more productive than >those who believe other things. ... >rrandall6 at juno.com >Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 05:48:42 -0400 >To: christlib at swcp.com >From: Terry McIntyre >Subject: Re: Christlib: Gimme That New-Age Religion, Gimme That New Age > Religion . . . >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Sender: owner-christlib at swcp.com >Precedence: bulk >Reply-To: christlib at swcp.com >Status: U > >It's very hard to make a credible case that >some particular faith, or lack thereof, is >ungood because some adherents are ungood. > >Trouble is, they all have their oddballs. >Just in the name of equal opportunity slandering, >Christians have their Inquisition and witch trials >and the oddball who sawed his son's head off >in order to free the lad from possession, and >the seven evangelicals who held a prayer session >just before robbing a jewelry store. > >I'll even admit that atheists, the most sensible >and moral of the lot ( IMHO ), have their bad >apples. > >And every one of these belief system groups >can say "Well, example X is simply not a True >Member." > >I'd want several things before making such >a ranking of one belief system over another. >First, a reliable way to determine membership, >which does not "beg the question" - if each group >expels all sinners, they are certain to wind up >in a dead heat, as the sole Saint of each >group becomes the only eligible member. > >Second, a measure of "goodness" which is >widely applicable. Can't have, for example, >"does not drink alcohol", as we have no >grounds for presuming that this is ungood >in and of itself, even if Islam makes >such a claim. > >Third, a statistically valid sampling. > > >Terry McIntyre <terry.mcintyre at pobox.com> >Libertarians Do It With Consent! http://www.ironsoft.com/lp >To: christlib at swcp.com >Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 10:57:32 -0400 >Subject: Re: Christlib: The Elephant and the Kangaroo >From: rrandall6 at juno.com (Randall R Randall) ... >On Tue, 28 Apr 1998 21:12:33 -0400 "John Fast" <jfast at fastindustries.com> >writes: ... >>There are an infinite number of possible >>explanations for _anything_ -- at the very >>least, there are over a dozen different >>interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, including >>the Copenhagen, Hidden Variable, Transactional, >>Many-Worlds, Many-Minds, Quantum Logic, and >>"Shut Up And Calculate" interpretations. >> >>Similarly, there are a number of answers to the >>Big Questions, like the Meaning of Life, the >>Universe, and Everything, and the Problem of >>the Existence of Evil. How do we choose among >>competing interpretations of QM, and of Life? > >Well, I would say that we take the interpretation >with the fewest starting assumptions, and look >for a way to test the various interpretations. >Time travel, BTW, if possible, would be one way >to test the MW theory. ... >rrandall6 at juno.com >From: "John Fast" >To: <christlib at swcp.com> >Subject: Christlib: Re: Standards of Proof >Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 12:43:12 -0400 > >Chris B. McKinney wrote: >> From: Randall R Randall >>> >as extraordinary as that is not enough to at least start you on >>> yourquest, >>> >then I think your evidentiary demands are unreasonable and will always >>> >remain unfulfilled. You accept many other "theories" on scant evidence, >>> >yet seem to be demanding the kind of proof that would absolutely blow >>> >away your own will and *force* you to accept it. Be careful of the >>> >double standard trap. : ) > >Indeed. IMO, the appropriate standard to use >for evaluating hypotheses, theories, and models, >is not whether or not they're perfect, but rather >which one explains the most and/or works the >best. When we have a good theory and some >anomalous evidence, it's legitimate to dismiss >some evidence as "experimental error." (If I >boiled some water and measured the temperature >as 99.8^o C, that wouldn't invalidate contemporary >physical chemistry -- at least not until I checked >the accuracy of my thermometer, the atmospheric >pressure in the room, and the purity of the water.) > >Sometimes (the cliche' example is quantum >mechanics) we have several different models >which all seem to work equally well -- literally, >because they all accept exactly the same data >and make identical predictions. In such a >case, they are called "interpretations" rather >than "theories," and the choice of which one to >use is arbitrary. >>> >>> Well, one of the standards of science that such occurances >>> cannot (apparently) measure up to is repeatability. >> >>Here with the "repeatability" thing again. This is _A_ feature of science, >>but there are many things scientists believe or propose that are neither >>repeatable nor testable: an evolutionary change from one species to >another, >>say, or the Big Bang. >> >>BTW, many Christians are quite skeptical in regards to modern miracles; the >>RC church has a committee that rarely accepts as "miracle" as genuine; some > >Indeed; and IIRC the Catholic Church does not >demand belief in any particular miracle except >those involving Jesus. > >>groups don't even accept the possibility of modern-day miracles, saying >they >>were for "the apostolic age" or something. > > >Um, well, that would sort of include me. As a >good Anglo-Catholic, I accept the possibility of >a miracle happening at any time . . . but as a >good empiricist, I tend to be skeptical of them, >especially the ones performed by televangelists >and New Age gurus. Besides, even if I knew of >a supernatural occurrence, I would have to be >sure whether it was divine or diabolic. >> >>I think even in the Bible, certain players were skeptical: consider Gideon >>(Ok, then, if the fleece is _dry_, but all the ground is wet, I'll believe >>you...) or Thomas (I won't believe until I see and touch him for myself). >I >>don't see anything wrong with honest skepticism; but if Gideon had >persisted >>in unbelief after both of his tests were passed, or if Thomas had persisted >>in unbelief after seeing and touching, one might question whether they were >>skeptics or just running away. > >It's also possible to see something inexplicable >and simply acknowledge, "I don't understand >this, but I don't know whether it's a miracle or >not." Again, according to Hume, it depends on >whether or not the occurrence of a miracle is >more or less likely than something else, like a >hallucination, deception, or whatever. > > ><sig skeptical of running away>
no-cost 3D player
http://www.solidconcepts.com/
ACQweb
http://www.acqweb.gov/ (?)
current military acquisition policy
Commerce Business Daily
http://cbdnet.access.gpo.gov
(the public notification media by which government agencies identify proposed contract actions and contract awards).
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 00:03:05 -0600
From: Gregory Houston <vertigo at triberian.com>
Organization: TRIBE EROS
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: extropians at extropy.org
Subject: Re: The Inner Path (Was: SOCIO: Friends)
...
Yes on the former, and on the latter, it has not been tried before in
the sense that I am seeking. It has not been attempted in the rigorous,
scientific, somewhat standardized fashion, necessary for it to be found
beneficial in our current educational settings. No one that I am aware
of has developed an evolving curriculum of emotive education that would
be suitable and beneficial in our current educational settings. This
will first require the development of basic skills and exercises for
observing and measuring emotive events. Just as in purely objective
science we require standardized methods of observation and measurement,
we will require the same in order to apply the scientific method to
emotive science. We will require the same to help objectify what is
intrinsically subjective. These rudimentry skills and exercises should
be simple enough that a kindergarten student could begin developing them
so that in each consecutive grade those skills could be built upon. And
from the get go, there should be an emphasis on how these new skills can
be applied to effectively augment the students cognitive skills.
...
What I am proposing IS something new, something
that as Greg Burch clarified so well, may only now be feasible. And that
is to introduce emotive education in a non-esoteric, non-religious,
non-mystical fashion. It is to assimilate emotive education into our
current cognitive educations. This may take some time, but it is my
intention to develop an emotive curriculum for primary and secondary
educational institutions. In the same fashion we can begin preparing for
calculus at a very early age by learning arithmatic, we can prepare for
advanced levels of emotive intelligence at a young age by learning the
fundamentals of emotive education.
...
I have only stressed the dichotomy because as I see it now, that is how
it is most often percieved. Our society has a very strong bias towards
the 'outer world'. Our primary and secondary education is almost
entirely directed towards the study of the 'outer world'. But in the end
I am pushing for a bridging of the gap between the 'inner' and 'outer
worlds' so that we can realize and effectively employ an
emotive-cognitive continuum, a continuum of consciousness. In the end it
is not so much about separation, for that is what we have now, but it is
about reconciliation, a reconciliation between the subjective and
objective, between the emotive and cognitive. I will often push for the
extreme, in which case I take a binary stance, but this is only in the
hopes that we can reach the true goal, which is a balance that we are
very certainly lacking in education as a whole. I have often found it
easier to achieve something, if I shoot for something well beyond it.
With that said, I will be more careful in the future to speak of degrees
within continuums rather than abstracted dichotomous absolutes.
...
I hope to offer a proposal which is congruous with Extropian,
Libertarian, and Transhumanistic thought. Thus the opionions, comments,
and suggestions of those on this list is greatly appreciated. Once a
tentative proposal is furnished, development can begin immiediately.
...
--
Gregory Houston
vertigo at triberian.com
816.561.1524
From: lawall at mtu.edu
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 10:04:28 -0400
To: christlib at swcp.com
Subject: Re: Christlib: utilibertarianism
Sender: owner-christlib at swcp.com
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: christlib at swcp.com
Status: U
>
>Brandon: I like that quote from Albert Ellis. Who is Albert Ellis?
>Has he written anything I might be able to get from the library?
>
Check out the Albert Ellis Institute at
http://www.iret.org/
Albert Ellis is the founder of RET or Rational Emotive Therapy (now also
called REBT or Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy) and one of the
granddaddies of what's known as the cognitive behavioral school of
psychotherapy, probably the most practiced form of psychotherapy around
these days in one form or another.
I've more or less used Ellis' approach professionally since around 1972.
Larry Wall
I now work professionally on ACF (Automated Collaborative Filtering)
technology at Firefly
...
As for the sociological implications, I am writing an essay on the subject
(see URL below), and would be happy if you could read and comment on it.
...
Alexander Chislenko
To Surf
http://sunsite.auc.dk/FreakTech/
-- recc. Eugene Leitl <eugene at liposome.genebee.msu.su>
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From: "Nick Bostrom" <bostrom at ndirect.co.uk>
To: transhuman at logrus.org
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 1998 15:46:40 +0000
Subject: >H Announcement: World Transhumanist Association
Reply-To: transhuman at logrus.org
Transhuman Mailing List
As some of you already know, there have beed discussions about
creating a World Tranhumanist Association. The good news is that we
have now reached the stage where we can make an inofficial
announcement and invite participation from the transhumanist
community. Together we have a unique pool of talents that I hope will
make this a big success and allow us to have an impact :-)
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MISSION STATEMENT
The WTA was founded in 1998 with the aim of turning transhumanism into
a mainstream academic discipline. The WTA seeks to promote research
into the science and philosophy of the future; to encourage reasoned
debate; and to facilitate the exchange of ideas between researchers on
all transhumanist themes. We work to increase public awareness of the
benefits, but also the risks, of the technologies by which humanity
will seek to overcome its biological limitations.
The WTA publishes the Journal of Transhumanism; organizes conferences;
promotes informed media coverage; provides information resources on
its web pages; and supports networking within the transhumanist
community. ----------------------------------------------------
We need members (membership will be free) but above all we need
persons who want to take an active part in shaping the WTA. The
content is still very preliminary. The WTA web site will be at
http://www.transhumanism.com; it is under construction but you can
already find more information about the WTA there.
If you want to get actively involved, please send me an email. At the
moment we are especially looking for persons who can take
responsibility for some part of the web pages, assist in the graphic
design, create a WTA logo, or implement features such as mailing lists
and threaded discussion archives.
I will continue to post updates on how the WTA develops... (I am quite
excited about this...)
_____________________________________________________
Nick Bostrom
London School of Economics
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
<n.bostrom at lse.ac.uk>
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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:46:21 -0500 (EST)
Comment: Hx: Transhuman Technlogies
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Version: Autolist v0.2 - Copyright 1995 Planet X Engineering
From: remi sussan <sremi at compuserve.com>
Subject: WEB:KnU
http://www.software.ibm.com/data/knu/
Yes, this one is from IBM.
KnU (Knowledge Utility) seems to offer a solution to the problem of
"subjectivity" :the fact that the knowledge representation is never the
same, according the different people.
KnU creates one graph representing one field,but allow to create
different"instances of a graph (the persona)representing preferences and
choices of various users.
You can find an application at
www.aqui.ibm.com,
which uses Knu to create a system which, in some ways, look like an
alternative for Crit software.
Remi
SFA Chi Alpha at: http://www.lcc.net/~sfaxa/
From: steve at mds.com (Steve Purcell)
To: "'David Cary'" <d.cary at ieee.org>
Subject: RE: PC Card FAQ
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 13:01:03 -0800
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Here's my question.
I have designed an IO PC card that uses the Z86017 PCMCIA interface chip.
On my Pentium 90MHz machine the CIS is read somewhat consistently, but on my Pentium 200MHz machine the CIS is rarely read correctly.
Is there a known problem with this chip, or is there some mystical way of wiring it up that I have missed.
steve at mds.com
tosurf
I've setup a chat system with an in-page java client for people who want
to talk in real time. Just click on "Chat" next to "News" on the Table
of Contents of Homo Excelsior. The chat page resides at
"http://www.excelsior.org/chat".
Pat
Subject: pdx-b5: Heartless Bitches (fwd)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 98 04:36:47 -0800
From: AmyCat <amy_c at efn.org>
To: <coj-list at pacifier.com>, <pdx-b5-l at q7.com>
Reply-To: pdx-b5-l at q7.com
Got a ref. to this web site from someone on another B5 list... Check it
out!
http://heartless-bitches.com/
They list Susan Ivanova as an honorary Heartless Bitch...
Global Village Bank
http://www.gvb.org/
skill bartering
The Science Guide
The World Wide Web News and Information Service for Scientists
http://www.scienceguide.com/
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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 22:40:08 -0500
To: christlib-l at q7.com
From: stanley rosen <srosen at bu.edu>
Subject: Christlib-L: _Next of Kin_
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I would like to recommend a book titled _Next of Kin_, by Roger Fouts,
describing research on chimpanzee behavior and communication skills, and
calling on humans to regard the great apes as possessing rights.
The relevance to the list is, first, that Dr. Fouts calls himself a
churchgoing Christian; and, secondly, that Christians, libertarians, and
others should address the question of who qualifies as a person to whom
moral consideration is due. If a chimpanzee can make grammatical
statements using a vocabulary of over a hundred words in ASL or Yerkish,
and produce works of representational art, does she qualify?
"Speak and I will baptize you," a seventeenth century churchman is quoted
as saying upon seeing a chimpanzee. What would he have made of recent
developments? What should the rest of us make of them?
Regards,
Nicholas Rosen (not Stanley)
To: christlib at swcp.com
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 18:45:44 -0700
Subject: Christlib: Biblically correct
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From: dougnewman at juno.com (Douglas F. Newman)
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A few Sunday's ago, I delivered a message to my Bible study group here in
metro Denver, on the subject of "Biblical Correctness."
I did not talk about partisan politics, or even say the word Libertarian.
However, my point was that Jesus was neither a right-winger or a
left-winger. He had no political agenda and never initiated the use of
force.
If Christians are to be the most effective, they will refrain from using
politics to reshape society.
A transcript of my teaching is at:
http://www.geocities.com/capitolhill/7093/bibcorct.html
For Christ and for Liberty,
Doug Newman
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[DAV: M. Heiblum <heiblum at wis.weizmann.ac.il> (Nature 26 Feb 98)
supposedly has a quantum article -- does it describe this same person's experiment ?)
T a s t y B i t s f r o m t h e T e c h n o l o g y F r o n t
...
This issue: < http://www.tbtf.com/archive/03-02-98.html >
________________________________________________________________________
...
________________
.Israelis demonstrate a tunable quantum observer
Half-looking at particles being waves
Researchers at the Weizmann Institute have demonstrated [25], and
controlled, one of the strange everyday home truths of the quantum
world -- that the act of observing something perturbs it. In this
case, what is perturbed is the tendency of electrons to act like
waves. The Israeli researchers have produced a tunable sensor that
can watch which of two openings electrons go through. When the
sensor is fully "alert," each electron provably goes through one
opening or the other. When the sensor is not "looking," electrons go
through both openings in a wavelike way and interfere on the other
side. Such control over this basic quantum phenomenon could be im-
portant to devices built of quantum parts, for example the chips
described in TBTF tor 2/23/98 [26]. Thanks for the story suggestion
to Eliyahu Skoczylas <eliyahu at photonet.com>.
[25] http://www.iinsnews.com/sci/980226/98022625.html
[26] http://www.tbtf.com/archive/02-23-98.html#s07
________________
...
TBTF home and archive at < http://www.tbtf.com/ >. To subscribe
send the message "subscribe" to <tbtf-request at world.std.com>. TBTF
is Copyright 1994-1998 by Keith Dawson, < dawson at world.std.com >.
Commercial use prohibited. For non-commercial purposes please
forward, post, and link as you see fit.
quotes:
David Cary: "A really great teacher teaches you what you need to learn,
not what you asked to learn."
Lots of computer humor and folklore
http://www.abc.se/~jp/articles.htm
.
Alexandria Digital Literature
http://www.alexlit.com/
"The focus at this point is science fiction and fantasy."
Borland C++ Builder
http://www.inprise.com/bcppbuilder/
Inprise, the company formerly known as Borland.
Has some free downloads.
To know how to use Dictionary/by/Mail and other free services from the
wordserver, send a blank message with the word "help" in subject line to
<wsmith at wordsmith.org>. You can use the same address if you wish to
subscribe to or unsubscribe from this list.
http://www.wordsmith.org/awad/
http://www.scn.org/
The Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization (JOHO)
http://www.hyperorg.com/
Art Bell
http://www.artbell.com/
recc. DCrawford. UFOs, etc. (Radio talkshow)
???
http://members.aol.com/Lesson4u
King Safety Products
http://www.kingsafety.com/
Macintosh Artificial Life Software
http://www.ccnet.com/~bhill/elsewhere.html
http://www.about-face.org/
"About-Face is a grassroots effort dedicated
to combating negative and distorted images of women
and promoting alternatives through education and action - and humor."
Ultimate Future
http://uf.misweb.com/
now has an online searchable database of second-hand VR and fringe-tech gear.
IBM Technical Journals
http://www.almaden.ibm.com/journal/
Lots of {{{HUGS}}}
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/4121/hug.html
The Society of Childlike Grownups
http://home1.gte.net/unusual/honor.htm
Green Dragon Creations
http://www2.greendragon.com/gdc/
"develops cool software for any platform except DOS/Windows"
MacOS,
PalmOS (Pilot),
game consoles.
Microcode Engineering
http://www.microcode.com/
...
The _Dancing Wu Li Masters_ was the author's attempt to find out what
model of the world is suggested by modern physics. He comes to the
conclusion that there *is* no model of the world (in the classical sense)
that is consistent with modern physics. I think that's perfectly correct,
although the author was hampered by his inability to master the
mathematics of modern physics.
...
"The apparent difference between science and religion stems from an
incomplete understanding of both" - Brigham Young
...
--
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1756/taofaq3.txt
Unlimited Underground Electronics
http://www.access1.net/ninteach/
strange, controversial technologies.
http://www-ese.fnal.gov/eseproj/dart/repeater/repeater.txt
???
http://www.ezonemag.com/articles/1996/neon.htm
RC sailplanes.
http://www.semi.harris.com/prism/index.htm
???
http://www.semi.harris.com/aquarius/index.htm
???
Mark Dalton
http://lenti.med.umn.edu/~mwd/
Lots of useful information:
Protein Structure,
Robotics and AI.
The International Interactive Communication Society
http://www.teleport.com/~iicsor/
the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching
http://www.lib.muohio.edu/ject/
"Today, too many people think that they are buying a solution
when what they are really buying is a tool."
-- Ken Catto
"Do the Right Thing", article by Peter Bickford,
p. 16 in 1995 July
Apple Directions
http://gemma.apple.com/mkt/adtop.shtml
http://peak-computing.com/
???
Cult of the Dead Cöw
http://www.l0pht.com/cdc.html
http://www.yahoo.com/Arts/Visual_Arts/Computer_Generated/Artists/Group_Exhibits/index.html
[pc_card]
Irez Research Corp.
$130 CapSure fill-motion, analog video PC Card for Apple Computer Inc.'s PowerBook G3.
1998 May 25 _Computer Reseller News_ http://www.crn.com/
http://www.zelo.com/jokes/startrek/microsoft.htm
http://www.dejanews.com/rg_mkgrp.xp Create Your Own Free Member Forum
[seul-help]
From: Roger Dingledine <arma at mit.edu>
To: twoducks at globalserve.net
cc: seul-dev-help at seul.org
Subject: Re: Contacting other groups.
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:41:11 EDT
Sender: owner-seul-dev-help at seul.org
In message <98042322062705.00482@duck1.foul>, twoducks at globalserve.net writes:
>It seems that it might be a good idea for seul-dev-help to
>contact other groups who may be interested in the attempt
>that we will be making to improve documentation for the
>end user.
>
>I would guess that we do not want to duplicate any efforts
>already occuring, so it would probably be best to contact
>these other groups before any really serious effort is expended.
>
>Some of the groups I thought should be contacted would be:
>
>KDE
>GNOME
>LDP (Linux Documentation Project)
>
>At the very least I thought it would be useful to inform them about
>the existence of this group and some of the actual concrete things
>we would be attempting to provide (task-help, a help system). I assume
>that if we were to work on documentation such as man pages (eew),
>HOWTOs and the like we would do that through LDP.
>
>Any comments? Are there any other groups that should be included
>and is there anything else that we might be doing that they would be
>interested with?
>
>Ken
"I must do something" will always solve more problems than "Something must be done."
- Unknown
Just a quick note to inform you that
Intelligent Instrumentation is now shipping
the Multifunction Ethernet Data Acquisition System.
This unit has 16 analog inputs,
2 analog outputs, and 16 digital I/O points, and
connects directly to a 10BaseT Ethernet using the TCP/IP protocol.
I can send full details if you are interested, or
you can get them from our web site at http;//www.instrument.com.
If you would prefer not to receive future announcements,
let me know by return mail, and I'll take your name off my list.
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Intelligent Instrumentation
[sr]
Millennium Twain, del Sud
[http://galeb.etf.bg.ac.yu/~malovic/muse]
From: "John Fast"
To:
Subject: Re: Christlib: press release
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 19:40:16 -0400
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Genie wrote:
(I wrote:)
>> Btw, why don't you post the original message
>> to Spooner-L?
>
>okay, I give what is Spooner-L?
Spooner-L <spooner-l at netcom.com> is
"Spooner-List," the Libertarian philosophy
discussion list. "Philosophy" here includes
all types, including metaphysics, cosmology, epistemology, linguistics,
psychology, "natural
philosophy" (i.e., natural science), and esthetics,
as well as ethics and political and moral philosophy.
It's run by Tim Starr <timstarr at netcom.com>.
<Sig-L>
Theologisches Forum
Fragen / Antworten zu biblischen Themen
http://www.somy.ch/home/wepf/
Theology Forum: Questions and Answers on Biblical themes.
(in German)(in Switzerland)
[robot]
Anorad Corporation
http://www.anorad.com/
Moving Magnet Brushless Linear Servo Motors
(mo moving motor cables)
Stop-My-Spam
http://www.StopMySpam.com/
???
[todo]
take psychology classes ?
MEI-Micro Center
http://www.mei-microcenter.com/
good prices on recordable CDs,
Digital Equipment Corp
Alpha 21164-500MHz: 15.4 SPECint95 and 21.1 SPECfp95.
[where ?]
my
"/etc/AppleVolumes.system"
file contains
Type Creator
-----
TEXT ttxt (SimpleText)
fast ADC/DAC question
$590 (in 100s) SPT7760 (Signal Processing Technologies)(1995 June _ECN_)(8-bit ADC ... 1000 MS/s)
[email to one who wanted fast ADC/DAC]
From: Eugene Leitl <eugene at liposome.genebee.msu.su>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 17:14:27 +0400 (MSD)
To: transhumantech at excelsior.org
Subject: tech: Re: Disposable digital cameras
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From: "Rehmi Post" <rehmi at media.mit.edu>
To: "MIT Lizzy Design Group" <wear-hard at haven.org>
Subject: Re: Disposable digital cameras
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 08:51:52 -0400
This is a good time to plug the Virtual Vision VV5300/VV6300 CMOS camera
chip with digital outputs. Grey and color versions. 160x120. $20/each in
small quantities. The color version just has a color filter pattern printed
on the package window. I've had really good luck with them.
http://www.vvl.co.uk/camera/index.htm
They're also easy to use, with 8-bit, 4-bit, synch and asynch serial output
formats software selectable. Yes, this is just a chip, but it does
everything except level-conversion from CMOS TTL to RS-232. You just need a
handful of pull-up resistors and some capacitors to get it running.
Speaking of prototyping, below are some indispensible tools for the
dedicated hobbyist.
Analog and mixed simulation: Microsim Spice v8 eval (www.microsim.com)
is great for just doodling out a circuit and getting a feel for it.
Board layout: free eval version of Protel-98 at www.protel.com. All the
tools you need to do schematic entry and PCB layout, with an interactive
autorouter, for 2- to 16-layer boards. Also includes PLD design tools and
simulation. Also check out www.pads.com and the layout tools in the
aforementioned Microsim Spice.
FPGAs for glue logic and more: Altera (www.altera.com) has a six-month
eval version of their software up for FTP. They also have some of the least
expensive, highest-density parts on the market. Lattice has similar tools,
and even cheaper parts. Aldec (www.aldec.com) also has a free eval VHDL
design and simulation environment. Cypress used to have a version of their
Warp tools available, don't recall whether it supported synthesis.
Board fabrication: Alberta Printed Circuits (www.apcircuits.com) has a
"Proto 1" service -- two-sided, plated-through holes on standard FR-4, no
soldermask or silk-screening, 8-mil linewidth, two-day turnaround (FTP into
their server monday morning before 0900 EST, get it back wednesday morning
via FedEx) if you're in a hurry. $48 setup fee per board, $0.68 per square
inch. They also have slower-turnaround, higher-quality services when you've
got your final board and you want all the niceties. Their work is good, and
it's about the cheapest and most reliable I've found.
HTH,
-rehmi
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_A Matter of Personal Protection: The Weapons and Self Defense Laws of Texas_
book by Doug Briggs.
"The gun laws of Texas are a rich source of understanding when it comes to
the application of deadly force. I highly recommend Briggs' book for anyone
who wants to gain a deep insight into this topic."
-- recc. 1998-06-28 "R. Knauer-AIMNET" <rcktexas at ix.netcom.com> http://www.aimtec.com/
John Hedtke
http://www.hedtke.com/
expert on technical writing:
what publishers look for in a book, etc.
To: christlib at swcp.com
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 23:47:13 -0400
Subject: Re: Christlib: Conservation of Coercion
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From: rrandall6 at juno.com (Randall R Randall)
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--
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998 16:45:41 -0500 "R. Knauer-AIMNET"
<rcktexas at ix.netcom.com> writes:
>>I still haven't seen any good reason to believe that there
>>*is* such a thing as a non-physical "spiritual" order (as
>>differentiated from "mental" things).
>
>Then I highly recommend you study Aquinas. The best books I know about
him
>are by Etienne Gilson. Two in particular are standouts: "God And
>Philosophy" and "The Spirit Of Mediaeval Philosophy". The latter has a
>particularly good treatise on Liberty. I have never seen anything as
well
>done as Gilson's exposition, not even Jacque Maritain.
If you could quickly describe the repeatable
experiment concerning non-physical matters
that I will find therein...?
>>Perhaps. Do you have some reason to believe this
>>that isn't also a (bogus) attack on libertarianism?
>
>There are two kinds of Libertarianism (other that Looneytarianism). One
is
>Anarchist Libertarianism and the other is Minarchist Libertarinaism. If
you
>want to grasp the essence of Anarchist Libertarinaism, read Lysander
>Spooner, and if you want to grasp the essence of Minarchist
Libertarianism,
>read Rose Wilder Lane.
I've read lots of Spooner, thanks. :) What do you
mean when you refer to "looneytarianism"?
I would be what you refer to as an Anarchist
Libertarian, I believe, unless I'm missing
something. I usually refer to myself as an
agorist, or anarcho-capitalist, or (lately)
free-archist, after Ari Armstrong's essay.
>I do not believe that being a Minarchist Libertarian is necessarily an
>attack on Libertarianism per se.
Perhaps not. My question is: Is there a
argument against privately held police
and court companies that isn't equally
valid or invalid against privately held
{everything else/fill in the blank}.
>>I would say that minarchy is demonstrably unstable,
>
>OK, let's see your arguments.
US history will do. The US started
as a good approximation of a
minarchist state. Liberia, nearly
every central/south american
country, and probably others
have all gone the same route,
in spite of original constitutions
closely modeled on the US's.
>>while anarcho-capitalism is only potentially so.
>
>OK, let's see your arguments.
Well, it hasn't been tried, so it
may or may not be stable. We
don't yet know.
>>Has there been a non-socialist attempt at anarchy,
>>*anywhere*?
>
>Probably not. Some argue that anarchy and socialism are the same thing
deep
>down. Communism is certainly anarchist.
Not at all. Communism is quite totalitarian,
even as idealized.
>>I don't know of any market anarchy that has been
>>attempted.
>
>Presumably the country of Greenland enjoys completely laissez faire free
>market capitalism, but I do not know that for a fact.
Nor do I. Someone know about this?
>>"Traitorous" being a term widely bandied
>>about when a person disagrees with the
>>ruling party. I would say that the whole
>>concept of "treason" is a meme that benefits
>>the State, at the expense of the rest of us.
>
>I use the terms "traitorous" and "treason" in the sense of violating the
>Constitution. Of course left to their own designs, politicians corrupt
>everything, including the true meanings of those terms.
But the Declaration (composed by some of the
same people as the Constitution) holds that
it is permissable to overturn a government,
so the Constitution is not inviolable, even on
its writers' terms (if not on Mr. Lincoln's).
--digsig
Wolfkin.
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The shape of his own future, now in his own hands.
| Johnny Clegg
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[interesting people]
Richard Thieme
http://www.thiemeworks.com/
[astro]
Kitt Peak National Observatory west of Tucson
MicroDesign Resources
http://www.MDRonline.com/q/
the _Microprocessor Report_,
_Embedded Processor Watch_,
_Buyer's Guide to DSP Processors_, Merced info, etc.
James Coons
http://www.ameritech.net/users/jacoons/
Christian, Radical Creationist, Programmer.
All About PostScript
http://www.quite.com/ps/
online books on programming in PostScript.
http://www.bootnet.com/boot.html
???
http://www.hackerproof98.com/
???
http://managementroundtable.com/
???
http://www.trainingforum.com/
???
http://www.extropia.com/
free perl scripts ?
move metadata information from "long-term TTD" to "html.html"
(leave behind a link).
Perhaps move other items from that file to "todo.html".
1998 Fall Schedule
ECEN 5513 MW 12:3-1:20 Cor 127 Stochastic Systems
ECEN 5713 MW 1:3-3:0 ES 111 System Theory
ECEN 5853 TTH 12:3-1:45 ES 302 Ultrafast Optoelectronics
Possible courses for 1998 Spring Schedule:
ENGL4553 * Document Design (not offered in 1998 fall)
ECEN5223 Digital Systems Testing (not offered in 1998 fall)
PSYCH 1113
German 1225 (1998 fall conflicted)
Comsc 4283 Computer Networks = ECEN 4283
Astro 1104 (!)
Micro 2124 (!) Intro to Microbiology
Architecture 1111
ABSED 4063 * Exporation of the Creative Experience.
[todo/resume]
failure analysis
[search tools]
more news:
http://www.hypernews.org/
F: 405 325-7066
E: vdebrunn(at)ou.edu
W: http://www.ou.edu/engineering/ece/faculty/vdebrunner.html
[astro]
The Sun
http://www.seds.org/nineplanets/nineplanets/sol.html
http://jsbach.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/linker
interesting little CGI program that takes *any* page
and adds lots and lots of
(hopefully at least slightly relevant)
links -- one for each and every word.
Towels
http://www.dwave.net/~tony/Mars/hgttg2.htm#Towels
[HHGTtG]
"the CodeGuru homepage, the online community of Windows developers."
http://209.66.99.126/
includes software jokes.
http://www.codeguru.com/jokes/
http://www.zdnetmail.com/
free web-based e-mail account
Tucker Electronics
http://www.tucker.com/
used and surplus equipment
http://www.protel.com/corp/links.htm
more electronics-related links
???
http://www.mi-systems.com/
http://atrieva.netscape.com/
offsite online backup service
MatLab humor:
Does existence exist ?
» exist('existence')
ans =
0
»
"Is there anything that always exists ?" -- Joe
???
http://www.TheValkyrie.com/stories/sagas/diana15.txt
http://www.aitech.co.uk/image_4_linkpage.htm
photo of THREE DIMENSIONAL INTERCONNECT
[future_history]
http://www.utexas.edu/research/cem/rd/rd03/03.html
"Presently, the Army is funding CEM under the Focused
Technology Program to develop the next generation of
compact compulsator power supplies, which will be
consistent with their concept of the Future Main Battle
Tank (FMBT) to be fielded by 2015. The FTP machine
concept represents a fundamental departure from the
previous air-core compulsators by going to a rotating field topology and a multi-phase operating
mode. These changes, combined with a composite stator structure will result in a factor of 4
increase in specific performance over the CCEMG machine, and will allow integration of the
system into a tank vehicle chassis. The compulsator will be a part of the all-electric tank which
includes electric vehicle drive and suspension, and electric armaments. In this concept, the flywheel
energy can be used as a flywheel battery to provide power for vehicle acceleration and
regenerative braking, and will also produce electrical power for the electromagnetic armaments."
[search tools]
http://www.operasoftware.com/search.html
http://www.imagicgames.com/demos.html#vandemo
game ???
http://www.equip.com/
online magazine ?
Christopher "Erlkönig" North-Keys
http://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/
stuff on Lego/Logo robotics, C++ programming,
some source code, the
Group Talisman Kate Bush Archive, etc.
(although DAV fails to see the connection ...).
He says
"With collaborative VR,
we lose boundaries between people and machine,
between people and people, and between machine and machine."
--
http://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/lego/lego-on-sgis/Main.html
The Mind Switch
http://www.phys.uts.edu.au/~asearle/m_switch.html
allows a person to turn on and off an electrical appliance,
such as a desk lamp or TV in 2-3 seconds using EEG signals,
without training.
Proportional control,
such as turning up or down the volume of a radio,
is also possible with the technology.
"my plea to artists is this:
Don't leave this new /materia prima/ -- called computation --
to us technologists. It is a new creative medium
of great profundity,
realized on a machine that is the most malleable tool
ever invented. It is necessary that artists --
the explorers at the edges of our culture --
help define its development.
...
"Instead of delivering a technology,
we have to parse it into usable solutions.
... constrained ... extracting simple, useful application
from the general technology. ...
Visualisation Software
http://www.roe.ac.uk/acdwww/vissys/
contains links to various visualisation packages and related information.
It has been produced as part of a Starlink project to investigate
visualisation software for use in astronomy.
starter-generator
http://www.skypoint.com/~olsonm/turbook/pg04.htm
for a turbine-powered car.
Intelligent Motion (Motors, Drives, and Motion Control)
Technical Papers
http://www.powersystems.com/arc/psw96/im.html
???
buzzwords
AUTOMOTIVE ELECTRONICS; BRUSHLESS MACHINES; CONTROL SYSTEM
SYNTHESIS; DIGITAL CONTROL; ELECTRIC PROPULSION; ELECTRIC VEHICLES;
MACHINE THEORY; MICROCOMPUTER APPLICATIONS; MOTION
CONTROL; POWER ENGINEERING COMPUTING; PWM INVERTORS; SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR
DRIVES.DEDE PWM INVERTER; ELECTRIC VEHICLES; THREE-PHASE
BRUSHLESS SYNCHRONOUS MOTOR DRIVE; MICROPROCESSOR CONTROL;
CONTROL ALGORITHMS;
LOOKUP TABLES; ABC-DQ CURRENT TRANSFORMATIONS; VECTOR CONTROL;
AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; MOTION CONTROL SYSTEMS; CONTROL DESIGN; POWER
ELECTRONICS; FILTERING; DIGITIZATION; COMPUTATION ALGORITHM.
John Trudel
editor for _Electronic Design_
http://www.trudelgroup.com
O'Reilly Technical Publishing
http://www.ora.com
Sharp Electronics
high-density FLASH and other electronics components.
http://www.sharpmeg.com/flash
nasdaq.com
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics
http://www.st.com
Electronic Industries Association (EIA)
JEDEC standards
http://www.eia.org/jedec/
active filter demo kit
http://www.national.com/see/activefilter
http://www.marshall.com/
distributes the
$4.79 Siemens C161 16-bit microcontroller
$161 SABC161EVAL Evaluation Kit for the Siemens C161, 64KByte RAM, 256 KByte FLASH, C Compiler, Assembler and Debugger
http://www.popsci.com
1947 Oct 14: Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first man to break the sound barrier,
in the X-1, with backup pilot Lt. Bob Hoover flying high chase.
Also on the X-1 team: flight engineer Captain Jack Ridley;
project engineer Dick Frost; B-29 pilot Bob Cardenas.
The entire mission (from being dropped from the B-29 bomber to landing) lasted 14 minutes.
(-- from _Popular Science_ 1998 Jan "The Last Hero Pilot" article by Frank Vizard)
1999 Jan 1: "11 of the European Union's 15 members are expected to adopt the Euro on Jan. 1, 1999,
establishing a single-currency economic zone with 280 million people...
and a gross national product of US$ 6.7 trillion ...
Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Finland, Austria, and
Portugul ...
Three others -- Britain, Sweden, and Denmark --
have opted out of the early stages, and Greece has been excluded ..."
"Midvale, Utah-based emWare recently showed off its embedded micro-interface technology (EMIT)
by controlling the functions of a standard door lock with a Web browser and a video camera.
The company is currently working with Weiser Lock to put its electronic locks online.
EMIT is based on a web server embedded in appliance chips... Web-enabled devices ... as little as 750 bytes of ROM and 28 bytes of RAM are needed in the device.
Chris Sontag, emWare's president, says the software could control locks, thermostats,
security systems, and entertainment systems.
It could even allow doctors to monitor home heart monitors."
-- Hank Schlesinger, in article "Internet Door Lock" in _Popular Science_ 1997 Dec. p. 33
the Zeppelin NT (for New Technology)
www.zepplin-nt.com
p. 44
_Popular Science_ 1997 Dec.
"A scientific team from Penn State and four other universities has discovered a species of worm that lives on and in chunks of frozen methane ...
The appearance of the flat, pink worms is as bizzare as the habitat where they were found.
... the icy methane deposits ...
form only under conditions of low temperature and high pressure."
www.bio.psu.edu/faculty/fisher/fhome.htm
p. 46
_Popular Science_ 1997 Dec.
"the Fun Car Co. ... developed a high-speed method ...
opening the door to low-cost, high-strengh [composite] automotive structures".
(No web page ?)
Mentioned p. 50 _Popular Science_ 1997 Dec.
IBM's Almaden Research Center
... prototype Personal Area Network uses the human body to transmit electronic data ... using a current that is weaker than the natural currents in the body ...
www.almaden.ibm.com
Dragon Systems
"NaturallySpeaking ... the first "continuous-speech" voice-recognition software for PCs"
www.naturalspeech.com
"the Qualcomm Q phone ... 4.0 by 2.2 by 1.0 inches closed... 5 ounces ... digital PCS telephone ... 4-line by 12-character LCD screen provide access to e-mail... Offered through Sprint PCS"
www.qualcomm.com
www.direcduo.com
www.popsci.com
The F-22 Raptor, currently undergoing test flights ... due to enter service in 2005.
www.lmasc.lmco.com/f22
Epson PhotoPC 600
digital camera
2-inch color LCD display; 1 024 by 768 resolution; flashbulb;
4MB of internal memory and a slot for CompactFlash cards. $799
p. 69
www.epson.com
_Popular Science_ 1997 Dec.
Motorola's TalkAbout radios
"use the UHF band reserved for outdoor enthusiasts and families"
30-hour operation
"A nifty headset ($15) triggers the voice activation so you can communicate hands-free. Price per radio: $149"
www.motorola.com
p. 69
_Popular Science_ 1997 Dec.
what is
turbofan
turbojet
turboprop
?
Neighborhood Electric Vehicle (electric car)
$ 6 999
www.bombardier.com
p. 79
_Popular Science_ 1997 Dec.
KAZ electric car
http://www.gaura.com/ev/kaz/index_e.html
Max Speed 311.67 km/h
"Rex-3DS PC Companion", a "PC Card"
1.4 ounce device
LCD display
$180
www.franklin.com/rex
p. 77
_Popular Science_ 1997 Dec.
6-wheel amphibious all-terrain vehicle (ATV)
www.maxatvs.com
Tesla books
http://www.keynet.net/~lindsay
$US 55 (including shipping) RC flying saucer
http://www.link.ca/saucer
http://www.amdahl.com/internet/hot.html
Dalriada celtic Heritage Trust
http://www.dalriada.co.uk/
Web + MOO = WOO!
http://www.picosof.com/about
the Geek White Pages
http://www.dsus.com/gwp/
ANTS
http://www.ants-inc.com/
is not an acronym
but a metaphor, says Wagner, for "the things we overlook
in our lives that are actually fascinating."
--
http://www.abqjournal.com/scitech/1sci2-11.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Avenues/Computers_and_Technology/Electrical_Engineering/
Daniel P. Dern
http://www.dern.com/
Planet Think
http://www.emg.com/
???
"In 1945, John von Neumann published his "Expanding
Economy Model". He showed, mathematically,
that economic problems are best solved
when all goods are produced at the highest
efficiency in the greatest possible quantity. No
matter where or how. ... the model says
that restrictions, tariffs, and trade barriers
always work to the detriment of those
imposing them. They amount to a subsidization
of inefficiency ..." -- Phil Armour.
Internet Computing Online magazine/webzine
http://www.computer.org/internet/
XML-related tools, companies, and online resources
_Computer_ magazine
http://www.computer.org/
http://www.halcyon.com/jlb/
???
The Tech
http://the-tech.mit.edu/
online news service
world's smallest hard disk drive
http://www.ibm.com/News/1998/09/09.phtml
"weighs less than a AA battery"
TechnoFandom
http://vger.rutgers.edu/~tempest/tf.htm
lots of info on keeping the stage, microphones, and lighting
running smoothly.
"the official site about Jef Raskin"
http://freebie.cfcl.com/jef/
"Information Design",
"Understanding Why Wings Work",
"Bible Code Hoax Program",
"Short Reviews of Science and Math Books" (some extremely negative),
and some medical humor.
Quantum
http://www.nsta.org/quantum/
"The magazine of math and science"
Biodiversity and Biological Collections
http://biodiversity.uno.edu/
http://utopia.knoware.nl/~myranya/major.txt
???
2001 at jencom.com
interesting presentation
http://www.jencom.com/2001
The Optical Fibers Page
http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/tutorials_online/topics/online/l_optfib.html
fiber optic
http://www.laughingbird.com/Mega_tips/Organizing_Tips.html
L0PHT Heavy Industries
http://www.l0pht.com/
pro-hacker
HOW THINGS WORK
http://landau1.phys.virginia.edu/Education/Teaching/HowThingsWork/
by
Louis A. Bloomfield, Professor of Physics, The University of Virginia
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/3537/index.html
schematics ?
http://www.vabch.com/edge/INDEX.HTM
electro-optics ???
Eugen Leitl: Weird Science >H Home Page
http://www.lrz-muenchen.de/~ui22204/
http://www.total.net/~benh/
???
http://www.iac.net/~suchanek/
lots of molecule links
a Medical Laboratory Technologist
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/5052/
???
http://uqbar.ncifcrf.gov/cachau/
Molecular Modeling, Quantum Chemistry
http://gpfn.sk.ca/~rorytate/index.html
"Equation of the Month",
fractal animations,
http://www-nmd.usgs.gov/www/products/prnmap1.html
maps ???
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/9752/
???
information on sources of error in temperature and other sensors,
and what happens when they are not taken into account.
Science and Faith
http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Union/9762/
http://www.primenet.com/~jeffdean/firewall.html
mentions the fictional(?) character "David Allen".
http://www.konstanz.netsurf.de/~grabenst/
???
http://www.cse.ucsd.edu/users/bgrundy/
???
universal economic history
http://wbrune.simplenet.com/
???
http://relicsoft.peon.net/
"RelicSoft is a non-profit software group
which creates all types of freeware,
for a variety of operating systems."
"If you have any ideas, or would be interested in helping out, let us know."
http://www.atc.peon.net/
"The Open University:
Faculty of Technology"
http://www-tec.open.ac.uk/
"The Open Technolgy Project"
has some courses that are taught
entirely on-line -- no face-to-face meetings.
The Internet Science Journal
http://www.vub.ac.be/gst/sci-journal/
FUTURE TECHNOLOGY
http://www.joelorr.com/future.htm
Near Future Technology
http://www.abwillms.demon.co.uk/tech/index.htm
[FIXME:]
The Old Computer Archive
http://www.zoo.co.uk/~z0001275/collection.htm
A collection of
Timex/Sinclair, Apple ][, Apple Lisa,
and other historical computers.
"DON'T throw that old computer away! I'll gladly take it off your hands."
The Apple Doomsday Clock
http://www.netherworld.com/~mgabrys/clock/
???
Anti-Apple and Anti-Macintosh links
http://206.187.82.62/cable/links.html
(also links to low-cost surplus equipment)
How to handle the PC Support Blues:
Dealing with the Burnout Syndrome in PC Support
jobs
http://206.187.82.62/cable/pcbos.html
Frank Potter's Science Gems (K-16) ="
http://www-sci.lib.uci.edu/SEP/SEP.html
Society for Amateur Scientists (!)
http://www.thesphere.com/SAS
Squiffy's Jokes
http://www.cix.co.uk/~harem/jokes.htm
http://members.tripod.com/~kathee/
???
Dan's Humor Archive
http://www.cwru.edu/dms/homes/dma7/humor/humor.html
Jokes Online
http://jokes.webdevelop.com/
Mega-Mergers
http://homepage.seas.upenn.edu/~ghinkle/fun/173.html
telephone company
humor
The Tuskegee Airmen
http://www.thehistorynet.com/advertise/tuskegee/airmen.htm
Ask Dr. Science Web Site
http://www.drscience.com/
Swedish Army Arctic Rangers
http://hem.passagen.se/hooch/
an elite fighting force
the LIGO project (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/
(selected)
Fortune Cookies
http://staff.hotwired.com/kevin/fortune.html
The Fortune Cookie Page
http://www.update.uu.se/cookie.html
(a cgi program)
the PlaidMan's Fortune Server
http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~leppik/cookie.cgi
"The C++ Programming Language" By Bjarne
Stroustroup, "Effective C++" and "More Effective C++" both by Scott Meyers. Very
excellent books.
-- recc.
Kendall Beaman
http://www2.andrews.edu/~beaman
"Loophole" In Shannon's Theory Speeds Up Wireless Communications
http://www.penton.com/ed/Pages/magpages/oct2298/tbrk/1022bk.htm
DAV: is this a April Fools joke ?
http://hudson.idt.net/~ljg19/
lots of electronics stuff,
some PCMCIA source code to download.
Steve Talbott
http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/stevet/
Editor, NETFUTURE newsletter on Technology and Human Responsibility
Author, _The Future Does Not Compute: Transcending the Machines in our Midst_, (O'Reilly, 1995)
Project Sun (Students Understanding Nature)
http://sunshine.jpl.nasa.gov/
"low cost, scientifically accurate instrumentation and computer interfacing,
which were coupled with older computers
such as the Apple II, Macintosh or IBM' as dedicated data loggers.
The current phase of Project SUN
now works with low cost commercial sensors,
which were not available when the project started.
Secondary students all over the world are contributing to the long term,
time resolved monitoring of both visible and UV solar surface radiation
to help us all better understand the environment in which we live."
Richard P. Feynman
http://feynman.com/online/
The World of M.C. Escher
http://www.worldofescher.com/
http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~thaddeus/lit/diary.html
???
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~doctron/examples.htm
some simple circuits
Lock Picking
http://www.wilton.force9.co.uk/lock/mechanism.htm
THE WORK OF JAGADIS CHANDRA BOSE:
100 YEARS OF MM-WAVE RESEARCH
http://www.tuc.nrao.edu/~demerson/bose/bose.html
The Dark Tangent
DEF CON
http://www.defcon.org/
Northstar Systems
http://www.northstar1.com/
USB cables,
USB Hub,
PC Card frame kits,
PC Card connectors and cables,
TLSI
http://www.tlsi-ic.com/
"TLSI develops and manufactures
products utilizing state-of-the-art
CMOS, BiCMOS and Bipolar processes.
Our expertise is analog, digital, and
mixed-signal analog/digital designs and
turnkey developments. "
[vlsi]
???
http://www.lextron.com/patlist1098.htm
a PC Card patent, ...
"I have hours of homework which I have to schedule around hours of school, wrestling, and a job...How can one stay up until 3-4 am in the morning and wake up at 6-7am to go to work or class, everyday??"
http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_chan=hom_pc3]/channels/edu/edu_pc2.shtml
http://www.dejanews.com/dnquery.xp?search=thread&svcclass=dnserver&threaded=1&ST=PS&recnum=%3c720lf3$chg$1@mawar.singnet.com.sg%3e%231/1
"No project concept that you might be
able to come up with will satisfy everybody. So instead of trying to
make everyone happy we should try to not prevent anybody from making
their-selves happy."
-- Vollmer Marius
http://www.geda.seul.org/mailinglist/geda-dev1/msg00005.html
Internet Timeline
http://www.clark.net/pub/kfl/
"against destroying information"
Chemistry Help Online
http://www.tznet.com/dnest/
???
http://www.sadan.com/
interesting ... very personal.
http://www.unitelnw.com/links.htm
???
the Kooks Museum
http://www.teleport.com/~dkossy/
includes the
"Solution to the World Problem Exhibit"
"Here ancient perpetual motion devices
will sit side-by-side with the latest in anti-gravity technology."
"Brain cells be burning over it. Trust in that."
--
Cecil, a character in
http://www.etext.org/Zines/Quanta/harrison16.html
by
Jim Vassilakos (jimv at ucrengr.ucr.edu)
I EDIT THE NET
http://www.mcs.net/~jorn/html/weblogs/weblog.html
"One of the best collections of news and musings culled from the Web --
and updated daily."
Mechanics Simulator
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Lab/3028/m_enter.htm
simple physics learning tool
info on Web Robots
WebCrawler
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/robots.html
WWW Robot FAQ
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/faq.html
A list of known Web robots
http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/active.html
"Remote Interrogation and Control of Sensors via the Internet"
article by Fuhr (furh at emba.uvm.edu) and Mowat (mowat at emba.uvm.edu) in _Sensors_ 1995 Dec.
http://issri.emba.uvm.edu/
fiber-optic sensors embedded in the dam ... the site is run by Apple Macintosh computers ...
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~asdamick/pub/unity/plan
Christian, yet vaguely GNU-positive
Artificial Life Resources (comp.ai.alife FAQ)
http://www.krl.caltech.edu/~brown/alife/
Macintosh Artificial Life Software
http://www.ccnet.com/~bhill/elsewhere.html
time travel
http://www.twarp.com/titr/timetrav.htm
-- recc. Jack Sarfatti <sarfatti at ix.netcom.com>
Douglas Hofstadter
http://www.cs.indiana.edu:800/finger/cogsci.indiana.edu/dughof/w
self-referential
Brad Templeton
http://www.templetons.com/brad/
interesting person.
http://www.sican-micro.com/oth_site.htm
???
http://www.abacom.com/innomagi/online/computng/computng.htm
???
the Midwest Science Fiction and Fantasy Association (MSFFA)
http://www.nd.edu/~rjervis/
the Etext Archives
http://www.etext.org/
"Home to electronic texts of all kinds,
from the sacred to the profane, from the political to the personal.
Our mission is to provide electronic versions of texts
without judging their content."
http://www.intergalact.com/circles.html
"affective programming"
"affective programming ...
It is the field between CompSci, CogSci and psychology that involves
computer interpreting and modelling human emotions, and displaying (or
manipulating) the same.
See http://www-white.media.mit.edu/vismod/demos/affect/affect.html
for a kind of affective computing home page with more information.
"
--
Anders Sandberg Towards Ascension!
<nv91-asa at nada.kth.se> http://www.nada.kth.se/~nv91-asa/main.html
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 00:00:13 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: >H Digest
Interactive-C programs
ftp://cherupakha.media.mit.edu/pub/projects/
http://www.IRsociety.com
???
free homepage ?
is there a
comp.sys.mac.portables FAQ
?
Jesus NorthWest Festival
"Jesus Northwest Festival"
http://www.altavista.com/cgi-bin/query?pg=q&text=yes&kl=XX&q=%22Jesus+Northwest+Festival%22&act=search
http://worldvillage.com/famsite/famsite92.htm
???
The ERACE Foundation
http://www.erace.com/
"Cool" Christianity
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~revival/coolbk.html
by Andrew Strom
The UNOFFICIAL
Alt.hackers FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS file
http://www.access.digex.net/~mikelea/hackfaq.txt
The C Coders Home Page
http://www.angelfire.com/sc/electron/
includes
"comp.lang.c Frequently Asked Questions",
"A tutorial on Pointers & Arrays in C",
"Game programming links and info",
"C source code",
etc.
Architectural Dublin - A Guide to the Architecture of Dublin, Ireland
http://www.archeire.com/archdublin/
No. 10 Downing Street
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/
The home of Britain's Prime Minister
... read about the current resident, past residents ...
... take a tour of the stately manse.
"Noonan's Broke & Brilliant WEB SITE"
http://www.awod.com/gallery/rwav/noonan/
??? humor ?
Zhahai Stewart <zhahai at hisys.com>
http://home.rmi.net/~hisys/zhahai.html
interesting person.
Good idea for resolving the trademark vs. Internet domain
namespace controversy.
Fortune Cookies
http://www.sincity.com/penn-n-teller/fortunecookie.html
"Because that’s all part of the story
of how science got to where it is -- by making mistakes,
by making really serious cognitive mistakes
based upon bad testing methods.
I think that would enhance any science course."
-- Teller
http://www.theness.com/teller.html
???
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~webcam/how_camera_works.html
http://www.neander.com/
http://www.geog.ubc.ca/s_linux/redhat-1997/msg00856.html
http://alwin.informatik.tu-chemnitz.de/~java/ROBOT_CAMERA/example1.html
http://www.jammed.com/~jwa/Pictures/
???
http://www.3xt.net/dc6.htm
http://hackerz.org/
http://www.crynwr.com/qcpc/re.html
???
http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml
"LINKS TO EMBEDDED MICROCONTROLLER SITES WITH GOOD CONTENTS."
http://www.lawicel.com/e_links_can.htm
Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
are required by
the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
http://www.osha.gov/
some are available at
http://www.pp.orst.edu/MSDS.htm
The Freedom of Information Act
...
How to make a FOIA request.
http://www.osha-slc.gov/html/foia.html
Memetics: A Systems Metabiology
http://www.apocalypse.org/~rwhe/memetics.html
James Wang <jwang at csua.berkeley.edu>
http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~jwang/
???
Welcome to
The Cyberspace Catacombs
http://www.mindspring.com/~tentmakr/pphp/landlord.html
a community for Christians
???
What do humans want ?
Apparently, this question has been answered at
???
CPU: Working in the Computer Industry
http://www.mcs.com/~jdav/CPU/cpu.html
An electronic publication for workers in the computer industry.
http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/8116/
???
[humble; learning PERL]
the Center for Innovative Computer Applications
http://cica.indiana.edu/
???
http://www.inquiry.com/
reviews of software development products
and demos.
???
quantum-d: a moderated mailing list for discussion of quantum theory.
http://www.teleport.com/~rhett/quantum-d/
http://www.physics.wisc.edu:80/~shalizi/hyper-weird/
???
random links, just like this page.
"new scientists are largely made by getting hold of people who are too young to
know better and warping their minds."
--
http://www.physics.wisc.edu:80/~shalizi/
http://www.caltech.edu/~goodstein/elites.html
???
The Greg Egan Fan Page
http://www.sam.math.ethz.ch/%7Epkeller/Egan-Page.html
(science fiction novelist)
Wormhole Physics
http://www.achilles.net/~mtalbot/
"Really Neat Places"
http://pw2.netcom.com/~eugenem/NeatStuff.html
http://www.pcpoetry.com/1-links.html
"Computer related humor".
Clocks and Time: Horology site for books, magazines, organizations,
museums, PC synchronization software, time standards.
http://www.ubr.com/clocks/
National Security Agency (NSA)
http://www.nsa.gov:8080/
the Communications Security Establishment
http://www.cse.dnd.ca/
The Central Intelligence Agency
http://www.odci.gov/cia/
the alt.cyberpunk FAQ.
http://www.knarf.demon.co.uk/alt-cp.htm
http://ftp.ec.vanderbilt.edu/Misc/Utopia/Kadath.html
???
SF
http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/articles/LivingSystems.txt
???
Internal Revenue Information Services (IRIS)
http://www.ustreas.gov
telnet fedworld.gov
ftp://ftp.fedworld.gov
http://www.cs.uit.no/~frodef/frodef.html
???
Are these all the same
Joel Katz
http://www.ted.com/info/katz.html
???
David J. Schwartz / Joel Katz
http://www.gate.net/~djls/
Joel Katz
http://130.238.11.14/proj/disney-comics/creators/joel-katz.html
American Association for the Advancement of Science
http://www.aaas.org/
publishes
Science Magazine
http://www.sciencemag.org/
http://helix.nih.gov/
Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre
http://www.sipe.com/halebopp/sloeyes.htm
string theory and
Superstrings
http://theory.caltech.edu/people/jhs/strings/
Flaxon Alternative Interface Technologies
http://www.sonic.net/~dfx/fait/
Physical Enhancement Page
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Individual/Body/
(Bionics)
Planet X
http://www.planetx.com/
Science Fiction on the Internet
www.netscape.com
and
home.netscape.com
the www-buyinfo mailing list
ftp://research.att.com/dist/www-buyinfo-archive/help.txt
An interesting concept.
Would it work ?
Ulf Lunde
http://www.kvatro.no/~ulf/bookmarks.html
has lots of fascinating-sounding links.
Computer languages (PERL; GNU C++...),
natural languages (German-English, Logban, Esperanto),
internationalization,
"Job hunting",
CGI programming, etc.
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~sfgva/ukus.htm
linguistic differences between British and American English
Kaz's Macintosh Programmer's Workshop
http://www.digitalstone.com/kaz/
has full source code (in Think Pascal) and 68K Macintosh executable
for the games BattleTank and Thunder Drop.
Niklaus Wirth
http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~wirth/
developed the Pascal programming language.
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/OSG/people/jvitek/
???
http://www.jargon.net/pasttitles.html
???
http://home.istar.ca/~bohdanov/index.html
???
Ian Viemeister
http://www.viemeister.com/
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum
Cayman Systems, Inc.
http://www.cayman.com/
produces routers and other networking hardware.
Cayman Systems based in Stoneham, Massachusetts.
http://www.cayman.com/jobs.html
Hardware Engineer
This position will require a strong background in
digital and analog circuit theory and design
with emphasis in Telecomm/Datacomm area.
Knowledge of embedded systems, low cost manufacturing & Viewlogic a plus.
Must be able to handle a project from inception through manufacture,
including testing and certifications.
mathematics
http://www1.shore.net/~rodc/mathematics.html
http://www.visto.com/welcome/35.html?banner=text_sponsor&referral=altavista_holiday
???
The Physics Of....
http://www.kent.wednet.edu/staff/trobinso/physicspages/PhysicsOf.html
"A product of Mr. Tom Robinson's Physics Classes at
Kentridge Senior High School, Kent , WA"
eyeglasses, black holes, drag racing, etc.
http://www.rotodesign.com/
???
a flat and stationary earth? [Dan. 4:10-11, Matt. 4:8, 1 Chron. 16:30, Psalms 93:1, ...]
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-noahs-ark.html
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6609/rant17.htm
rant about the bizzare "standards" of beauty
in 1997 America.
Points to
the Janeane Garofalo Fan Webring
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=jgwr;list
WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD
by David C. Korten
http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/corprule/corporat.htm
???
"a community-based, people-centered alternative
beyond the failed extremist ideologies
of communism and capitalism."
The Noam Chomsky Archive
http://www.worldmedia.com/archive/
http://www.angelfire.com/fl/sair/
a journal ...
similar to some of my anthrophobic emotions.
Matt McIrvin's
Push-Button World of the Future
http://world.std.com/~mmcirvin/
Matt McIrvin invented the original "Indent-o-Meter",
a nice explaination of
"Why is the sky blue?" (dipole scattering depends on frequency)
Timewave Technology Inc.
http://www.timewave.com/
sells
"Skillful application of DSP and analog signal processing design techniques,
embedded microcontrollers and computer control provide
innovative, efficient, and
cost effective solutions for customer problems."
includes some Amateur Radio Products.
http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk
???
humor
http://www.egnet.co.uk/seeking.html
???
http://www.winfiles.com/apps/98/mail-sig.html
???
http://www.bagley.demon.co.uk/links.html
???
http://members.tripod.com/~LeeBraiden/
???
is mentioned on
http://www.d-n-a.net/dnausers/
???
http://www.bsdi.com/hyplan/sanders.html
???
HyperNews.org
http://www.HyperNews.org/
HyperNews is freeware and open source software.
HyperNews is a cross between the hypermedia of the WWW and Usenet News.
Some interesting articles on Electronic Discussions, Web Caching, etc.
EFF "Net Tools" Archive
http://eff.org/pub/Net_info/Tools/
Dream Artists
http://dreamartists.xoom.com/
eye candy ?
http://www.euronet.nl/users/malmgren/DT_Documentation/DT_Example_04/fixurls.html
graphical finite-state automata tool ?
Tony Sanders
http://www.bsdi.com/hyplan/sanders.html
maintains
The HTML Bad-Style Collection
I was looking for more information on "setext";
the search engines led be to
http://www.euronet.nl/users/malmgren/DT_Documentation/DT_Example_04/fixurls.html
which in turn led me to
http://www.ease.demon.nl/
.
eye candy ?
TheCulture
http://members.xoom.com/TheCulture/
the Iain (M) Banks fanzine.
Also see
Culture Shock
http://www.phlebas.com/
the unofficial Iain M Banks Site
Jack Sarfatti
http://www.hia.com/pcr/
quantum physics
and some physics comics.
Interesting philosophical conjectures.
natural fossil nuclear fission reactors
http://dabui.econ.hc.keio.ac.jp/~ken/physics-faq/constants.html
"the "Oklo Phenomenon," a uranium deposit in Gabon
that became a natural nuclear reactor about 1.8 billion years ago;"
"Uranium Fission Reactor in Gabon Constructed Two Billion Years Ago"
http://scotch.mit.edu/science/UraniumGabon.htm
Natural fossil reactors have (so far) only been found in the country of GABON in equatorial Africa.
detailed maps:
http://www.curtin.edu.au/curtin/centre/waisrc/OKLO/Where/Where.html
BBS and ISP
Agora
503 293 1772
http://www.mcp.com/
"Free, unlimited access to more than 150 complete computer books"
http://www.successways.com/
???
Apple PowerBook info;
Host-It-Yourself Web Servers:
Includes a comprehensive list of Mac CGI resources
and links to the places you can find them.
http://macuser.zdnet.com/0497.html
http://macuser.zdnet.com/0497.html
???
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL SUBJECT INDEX
http://www.coalliance.org/index/subject.D.html
(see "design")
institute for human and machine cognition
(IHMC)
http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/research.html
???
Jonathan Woodward
http://www.io.com/~woodward/
???
has a copy of
"The Ten Best Tools Of All Time"
http://www.io.com/~woodward/other/10tools.txt
Mark J. Musante
http://world.std.com/~olorin
has a interesting "Self-Esteem Booster" thingy.
Too Many Codes!
http://www.pitt.edu/~gt42/codes.html
a list of Geek code and tons of other similar codes,
including "The Code Code"
http://www.pitt.edu/~gt42/codes/code.txt
Yet more descriptive codes are listed at
http://www.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor__Jokes__and_Fun/Codes/
Donoho Design Group
http://www.ddg.com/
"MacSpin was the first application to bring exploratory data analysis
to any desktop system."
"MacSpin ... a graphical
package that allows you to take sets of data and plot them then rotate the
graph to view from various angles."
"Computers were invented to help people waste more time faster."
-- Dr. Kurt Hillig <khillig at umich.edu>
(is he the original author ?)
http://www.niagara.com:80/~twibp/
???
[offline ?]
SGI employees
http://reality.sgi.com/index.html
Gibson Research Corporation
http://grc.com/default.htm
"freeware demo program "Free&Clear" that
allows anyone with a 32-bit Windows operating environment
to play with this very cool sub-pixel font rendering technology."
Eunézio Antônio de Souza (Thoróh)
http://tritium.fis.unb.br/thoroh/
"Smart pixels" applied to image enhancement and processing
Mark Dodge
http://www.primenet.com/~markd/
has the
Win95 and WinNT FAQs
DLL's and Global Variables
http://www.ntug.org.uk/archive/iwntug/00001717.htm
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~ratib/code/redirect.cgi?Goto=unix.htm
???
Windows Programmer FAQ: How to get it
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/ms-windows.programmer.how-to-find-faqs.html
Windows Developer's Journal (WDJ)
http://www.wdj.com/home/
lots of source code to download.
ftp://ftp.mfi.com/pub/windev
Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation
http://www.mcc.com/
http://www.prospernet.com/artsscience/arts/computer_generated/exhibits.html
The Year 5 Billion Bug
http://y5b.com/
DPMI functions (DPMI API)(Protected Mode Interface)
ftp://ftp.qdeck.com/pub/general/dpmispec.zip
see
ftp://ftp.qdeck.com/pub/general/_index.html
Terence McKenna's Hyperborea (recc. Jack Sarfatti )
http://www.levity.com/eschaton/index.html
???
Fractal Time
http://serendipity.nofadz.com/ft/
???
_Microsoft Systems Journal_ magazine
http://www.microsoft.com/msj/
_Microsoft Internet Developer_ magazine
http://www.microsoft.com/mind/
Information Servers at MIT
http://eddie.mit.edu/other-places.html
http://eddie.mit.edu/ftp/pub/cts-rsi/
an archive dedicated to holding information about
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, and Repedative Stress Injuries.
"UO Study Finds Internet Romances Show Deep Commitment"
http://www.uoregon.edu/newscenter/romances.html
"Ava Rosenblum, who conducted
a four-year study on Internet relationships for her dissertation project."
Information Infrastructure Standards Panel (IISP)
http://web.ansi.org/public/iisp/
"standards to facilitate interconnection and interoperability are critical.
Competition without chaos can only be achieved through appropriate standards."
"The sophistication of deception is increasing
faster than the technology for verification.
That means the end of truth."
-- Alvin Toffler
http://mot-sps.com/cgi-bin/my-mot/moto.cgi
???
http://home.t-online.de/home/a.tillmann/indeqp.htm
???
http://www.darnell.com/powerpulse.shtml
???
Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc.
"thomson consumer electronics"
an article in _designfax_ 1997 Aug
talked about how TCE used 1000 frame/s Kodak digital camera
for product testing; watching during vibration testing.
"the world’s fourth largest consumer electronics company and the largest television manufacturer in the United States."
--
http://www.uic.com/thomson.html
...
involved in HDTV development
...
Americas Tube Operations
http://www.thomson-ato.com/
Thomson Consumer Electronics, Inc. has apparently merged with
RCA Electronics
http://www.rca-electronics.com/
Imagenation Corp
sells "Video Frame Grabbers" in PCI and PC/104-Plus versions.
MacSciTech
http://www.macscitech.org/
El's House of Doom
http://sklarnet.com/LN/eldoom.shtml
"Tired of being told you're too negative?
Are you sick of peppy optimists?
Then this is the place for you."
includes
"Technology That Sucks"
Centre for the Easily Amused
http://www.amused.com/
"Life's too short to take seriously."
Sid Sklar talks about Doctor Ramon Castroviejo
(cornea transplant)
http://www.sklarnet.com/transplants/chicago.shtml
I told you the truth, yet you did not believe it.
http://www.visionx.com/dd/
???
Home of a True Romantic
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Metro/7859/
Mike Swaine
http://www.swaine.com/
mirror
http://www.cruzio.com/~mswaine/
"Mike's a technology columnist
who regularly appears in
Dr. Dobb's Journal" and other magazines.
Search for:
* Harrison Schmitt: Apollo 17 Astronaut; Former Senator, New Mexico
LT-Speedway
ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/labtech/LTSPEEDW.ZIP
ftp://ftp.uu.net/vendor/labtech/LTPSPEEDW.TAR.Z
-- mentioned in _EDN_ 1994 Nov. 10, p. 22
???
"BBN created the forerunner to the Internet,
sent the world's first e-mail ...
BBN is now GTE Internetworking."
http://www.bbn.com/
has a nice internet timeline
http://www.bbn.com/timeline/time70.htm
http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/user/fiore/bookmarks?Graphics
???
Die Turing-Maschine
http://www.ifi.unizh.ch/groups/richter/achatz/index.html
is
the Turing Machine
http://www.bvu.edu/faculty/schweller/Turing.html
http://csli-www.stanford.edu/hp/Logic-software.html
???
???
http://www.thespot.com/thespot
Uncomyn Gifts
http://www.UncomynGifts.com/
science fiction and fantasy toys.
http://www.whatis.com/supercom.htm
???
http://www.abc-computing.com/
???
http://raq002.aa.net/boutell/
???
http://www.mediabuilder.com/graphicsagifday.html
???
http://www.href.com/compdocs/
???
http://users.exis.net/~jnc/
networking hardware;
Net.Humor
http://bush.cs.tamu.edu/~shipman/formality-paper/harmful.html
???
Bandwagons Considered Harmful, or
The Past as Prologue in Curriculum Change
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~kay/pubs/bandwagons.html
Dr. Tomorrow
http://www.drtomorrow.com/
http://www.click.com/flung/
???
http://www.next-generation.com/jsmid/index.html
???
Bug++ of the Month
http://www.wdj.com/archive/0909/bug.html
keyboard latency as a source of randomness
http://www.csd.net/~cgadd/knowbase/NUMBERS0063.HTM
24 Hours in Cyberspace
http://www.cyber24.com/
"Intelligent humor page"
http://www.lucifer.com/~sasha/humor/index.html?clicktrade=118226
"Jack [Cohen] seems to collect people with odd and arcane knowledge."
--
Jerry Pournelle (1995)
Heather Alexander
http://www.teleport.com/~seafire/
"celtic fiddler and singer-songwriter"
Howard L. Davidson
"His career ambition is to
find a job where he can't distinguish
the project plan from a Robert Forward novel."
Dr. Robert L. Forward
His novels and short stories are "hard" science fiction.
http://www.egames.com/
???
"Sonia believes in love, truth, and ... chocolate ...
[and] the importance of keeping your sense of humor."
http://www.sff.net/people/leslie.what/
???
"Future home of the
OffSite Digital Technologies Web Site
Stay tuned! This Web site will be online shortly.
"
http://www.2offsite.com/
Offsite Data Back Up Recovery System
Philosophy Fun and Humor section
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Main/MainHumo.aspx
/* was
http://www.epistemelinks.com/Humo/Humor.htm
*/
http://www.nwlink.com/~dclark/humor/
???
http://bradley.nms.unt.edu/www/humor.html
???
Tech Support Nietzsche Style.
http://carroll1.cc.edu/~twalker/humor/computer/nietzsche
Tech Support Nietzsche Style
http://bradley.nms.unt.edu/www/nietzsche.html
Tech Support Nietzsche Style
http://www.geezjan.org/humor/computers/nietzsche.html
Tech Support Nietzsche Style
http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~roberts/nietsupp.html
Tech Support Nietzsche Style
http://www.things.org/~jym/fun/nietzsche-tech-support.html
Tech Support Nietzsche Style
http://home.dmv.com/~dmbing/humor/techsupp.shtml
Tech Support Nietzsche Style
http://www.computan.on.ca/~jeff/funnyfarm/t/tech_support.html
Tech Support Nietzsche Style
http://www.cccd.edu/~markb/nietzsche.html
From: Jim Hammons[SMTP:jhammons at smtpgate.kofax.com]
Sent: Friday, December 08, 1995 6:01 AM
Tech Support Nietzsche Style
http://www.mrs.umn.edu/~knieribr/fun/techsupport.html
Welcome to Campus Resources A-Z
http://www.yahoo.com/promotions/b2s97/onsale.html
Internet Connections for Engineering (ICE)
http://www.englib.cornell.edu/ice/ice-index.html
"Pretty Strange Sites"
http://www3.zdnet.com/yil/content/depts/strange/pscurrent.html
Artificial Life "Games" Homepage
http://gracco.irmkant.rm.cnr.it/luigi/lupa_algames.html
First USA (VISA)
http://www.CardmemberServices.com/
The Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA)
http://www.zifa.com/
???
Reengineering Resource Center
http://www.reengineering.com/
???
Science News
http://sciencenews.org/
methane hydrate
http://sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/11_14_98/Bob1.htm
"methane hydrates are a crystalline combination of natural gas and water,
locked together into a substance that looks remarkably like ice but burns if ignited."
"The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
estimates that the methane hydrates hidden beneath U.S. waters alone
hold some 200 trillion cubic feet of natural gas,
enough to supply all the nation’s energy needs for more than 2,000 years
at current rates of use.
"
"Hydrates also go by the name of clathrates, a term derived from the Latin word for lattice.
"
see
http://www.hydrates.org/
Peter Whitfield recounts in The Charting of Oceans,
"In September 1522 a small ship, the Victoria,
dropped anchor off the coast of Spain near Seville with eighteen men on board.
The ship was laden with spices and exotic cargo, but
the men were in the last stages of exhaustion and malnutrition.
They were the survivors of a fleet of five ships and 270 men
who left Seville exactly three years before under the command of Ferdinand Magellan,
on the greatest adventure in maritime history, the first circumnavigation of Earth."
http://www.synopsys.com/news/announce/press/chiparch_pr.html
http://palladio.arch.kth.se/~henke/
???
Papers and Talks by Wray Buntine
http://www.ultimode.com/wray/refs.html
learning algorithms
Tutorials
http://www.ultimode.com/wray/refs.html#tutes
"The graphical models and exponential family talk contains an introduction to
lots of learning algorithms using graphical models. Included is an analysis
with proofs of the much-hyped mean field algorithm in its general case for
the exponential family (as you might have guessed, mean field is simple once
you strip away the physics), and lots more. This talk also contains how I
believe Gibbs, EM, k-means, and deterministic annealing should be taught (as
variants of one another).
"
http://minot.ndak.net/~brichard/dss.html
???
CIA's Home Page for Kids
http://www.odci.gov/cia/ciakids/
Outrageous On-Line Uncle Al
http://www.ultra.net.au/~wisby/uncleal.htm
hilarious,
non-politically correct,
possibly blasphemous,
humor
A physics reference for students and teachers
by Erik Max Francis
http://www.alcyone.com/max/physics/reference/
The Internet Pilot TO Physics (TIPToP)
http://physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/
includes
Humor and Fun in Physics
http://physicsweb.org/TIPTOP/paw/paw.phtml?k=Humor+and+Fun&f=l&t=k
hilarious stuff.
Nerds Revolutionary Front
http://www.webb2000.freeserve.co.uk/
???
Stef's Home Page
@
The Cat & Dragon
http://www.bayarea.net/~stef/
Fat acceptance: The truth about weight;
Web Design Rant
"The web is the greatest resource ever created by humankind and also the ultimate display of just how bad our taste can be -- and I'm not talking about naughty pictures.
Genuine content is rare enough...
I've become more and more annoyed at the proliferation of stuff
that prevents me from reading that content.";
Physics Humor
http://www.cyberspc.mb.ca/~dcc/phys/humor.html
(and funny physics cartoons)
Plumb Design, Inc.
http://www.plumbdesign.com/
created
Thinkmap™ software
http://www.thinkmap.com/
kinda cool web interfaces.
http://www.mb.imag.net/~wpg742/resource.html#humor
???
http://www.dibona.com/
???
free software advocate
???
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/01/29/0047249.shtml
privacy
???
!!!
http://slashdot.org/search.pl?section=&op=stories&author=&topic=&min=90&query=
http://www.washedashore.com/humor/humor.html
geek humor
???
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/01/21/1454216.shtml
???
MacQuarium
http://www.alpine.k12.ut.us/ASD/Departments/Tech/Fish/Default.html
National Academy of Sciences
National Academy of Engineering
Institute of Medicine
National Research Council
(the NAS, NAE, IOM and the NRC)
http://www.nas.edu/
Telemedicine
http://www2.nas.edu/whatsnew/2586.html
http://www.intel.com/businesscomputing/small/success/oregon.htm
Michael Pearce
http://www.moonmac.com/
http://www.moonmac.com/
mirror:
http://www.moonmac.com/~mklprc/
(writes articles for Computer Bits about Macintosh)
cartoons
http://www.yukyuk.com/
_IBM Journal of Research and Development_
/* was
http://www.almaden.com/journal/rd39-6.html
*/
Transducer Techniques Inc.
http://www.ttloadcells.com/
load cells, torque sensors, ...
and other strain gage transducers.
http://www.excelsoftware.com/
software engineering
http://www.nwalsh.com/
perl, ...
http://www.furballthegreat.com/
"Content is King"
Calc98 Version 4.5 (free download)
http://www.fdgroup.co.uk/neo/fsi/Calc98.htm
"Calc98 is an engineering, scientific ... calculator
...
units conversions and physical properties and constants."
http://www.wordinfo.com/links/ailist.htm
"dozens of commercial, shareware, and
freeware programs, templates, macros, and utilities that work with Word.
...
HTML and SGML converters
...
creating Windows Help files
...
sample letters for various occasions
...
"
PC Magazine Online
http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/
Tips and Tricks for Windows 95
http://www.americatoday.com/hanar/
a few tips for customizing your desktop;
"Command Line Multi-tasking"
for DOS much like "&" does for Unix,
etc.
http://www.frontierproductions.net/
/* was
http://www.frontier-news.com/
*/
???
http://www.CardMemberServices.com/Summary/
???
IEEE Information Theory Society
http://www.itsoc.org/
???
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/rab/gold/
???
http://www.ieee.org/organizations/eab/
Engineer Joke of the Month
_Today's Engineer_ magazine
http://www.todaysengineer.org/
"think outside the cubicle"
???
http://www.computer.org/computer/co1997/rytoc.htm
???
http://www.Boutell.com/
lots of HTML and CGI information;
free source code,
Shared Calendars,
Activism information.
http://metalab.unc.edu/metalab.shtml
formerly known as sunsite.unc.edu,
one of the oldest web servers in the world.
http://metalab.unc.edu/extimacy/
???
"Mission Portland: Serving Portland's Spiritual Revival"
http://www.webroute.com/mp/
seems to be connected to the
Love-In-Action Network (LIA)
http://www.lia-pdx.org/
http://www.churchontheweb.com/
???
Christian News Northwest
http://www.cnnw.com/
"a monthly tabloid-size newspaper
informing Christians and the public with news and observations
from a deliberately evangelical Christian perspective."
http://www.worldvillage.com/
???
Open Transport
software available from Apple
ftp://ftp.support.apple.com
ftp://ftp.info.apple.com
http://www.worldvillage.com/wv/square/chapel/chapel.htm
???
the Bulletin of the IEEE Technical Committee on Data Engineering
ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/debull/
http://www.dice.com/
"high-tech jobs"
"DICE is a job search web site for computer professionals. DICE lists thousands of high tech permanent, contract, and consulting jobs nationwide for programmers, software engineers, systems administrators, web developers, hardware engineers, and others."
Macintopia
http://www.ultranet.com/~jimk/macintopia.shtml
Macintosh related news and resources!
World Multiconference on
Systemics Cybernetics and Informatics
and, the International Conference on
Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis
http://www.iiis.org/
???
American Society for Quality (ASQ)
http://www.asqc.org/
???
Robert T.H. Alden
http://power.eng.mcmaster.ca/alden
|
http://power.mcmaster.ca/alden/
writes articles for _the Institute_ IEEE newsletter.
(???)
Transient Systems
http://www.transient.net/
a nonprofit freenet
whose purposes are for giving access to the
public, and educating people on unix/internet/computers.
the Christian Music Place
http://place2b.org/cmp/
The Internet Music Monitor
http://surf.to/the-imm
ICSPAT - International Conference on Signal Processing Applications & Technology
http://www.icspat.com/
The Internet Society
http://www.isoc.org/
???
http://www.thursby.com/
Networking Macs and PCs
http://www.evangelist.macaddict.com/
macintosh EvangeList
Erik Walthinsen
Paul Callahan
http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~callahan/wacky.html
another
Edward R. Tufte
fan.
Also passionate about Conway's Game of Life.
The Smart Home
http://www.bess.tcd.ie/tcd/ispdg/house.html
funny.
Computational Geometry
http://compgeom.cs.uiuc.edu/~jeffe/compgeom/compgeom.html
http://alabanza.com/kabacoff/Inter-Links/
???
search tools ?
CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV® lists
http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html
23,447 public LISTSERV mailing lists
National Science Foundation: FastLane
https://www.fastlane.nsf.gov/
FastLane test server:
https://www.fldev.nsf.gov/
find webcam
find .signatureideas.txt
http://www.armchairmillionaire.com/
???
http://www.commpath.com/meow/
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/
http://www.cal.shaw.wave.ca/~toys-4u/
???
http://members.aol.com/eric9215/save.htm
http://www.npr.org/programs/death/
http://ackxhpaez.com/funnies/index.html
???
English - to - Southern American languages dictionary.
http://netsquirrel.com/crispen/word.html
More interesting sources of English sayings
http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/sayings.htm
The Exploratorium
http://www.exploratorium.edu/
(a science museum like OMSI)
A game from Stairwell Studios - It's Stare Down Sally!
http://www.stairwell.com/stare/
???
http://www.lumpgallery.com/
LUMP is a gallery dedicated to contemporary and emerging art.
???
Random Acts Of Romance
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~ramirez/random.htm
ThinkQuest
http://advanced.org/thinkquest.html
educational.
An Overview Of Computational Science
http://csep1.phy.ornl.gov/ov/ov.html
electronic book
Siemens Co.
sells the
CTI ECAT scanner
http://www.cti-pet.com/
, a high resolution
positron emission tomography (PET) scanner.
(Is this a
single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
scanner ?)
PET scanner advantages:
provide a direct measure of
biochemistry and functional activity,
information not available through any other
procedure.
X rays, Computed tomography (CT) scans,
or MRI -- these depict only anatomy
(physical structure);
they cannot directly detect
changes in metabolism, blood flow,
or receptor status ...
detecting these chemical abnormalities
provides the earliest identification of disease.
Pet scanner disadvantages:
slightly invasive -- radioisotopes are injected;
cannot be performed on small animals
such as mice because of low resolution.
GE Medical Systems
sells
magnetic resonance imagers (MRI)
http://www.crl.com./~davidh/
???
"If one technology is cheaper than another,
it will win, as long as its not ridiculously substandard."
--
Mike Hughes
http://www.osnews.com/features/11.98/small.html
GartnerGroup
http://www.atvantage.com/
;
http://gartner5.gartnerweb.com/public/static/home/home.html
;
http://www.atvantage.com/public/static/home/newfeat3.html
http://www.collegenet.com/
???
Purple Moon
http://www.purple-moon.com/
software for teenage girls.
The Sharper Image
http://www.sharperimage.com/
Amtrak
http://www.amtrak.com/
http://www.travelocity.com/
airplane and hotel reservations
http://www.sixdegrees.com/
????
http://futurefile.com/
???
news
http://www.okstate.edu/elec-engr/faculty/yen/yen.html
???
http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~cjones/web/
????
http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=ps]/getdoc.xp?AN=455941304
???
"It's very hard
to disagree with somebody in a way that lets dialogue continue."
--
http://www.best.com/~thvv/emailbad.html
"Denial, Desperation, Litigation.
My official 3 stages of an industry about to change.
Stage 4 is anyone's guess."
-- Rob Malda 1999-03-24
http://cmdrtaco.net/
When Netscape announced their intent to release the mozilla source under an open-source license,
there was extensive (and often hostile) debate in public fora.
It eventually led to both clarification and modification of the first iteration of their license.
Nobody in the press called it a "bitter political war."
Maybe that's because back then the reporters didn't know where the discussion was taking place.
This kind of open debate, however bitter it may seem to outsiders, is how the collective operates.
Somebody posts something to the net (be it draft code, or a draft license)
and everybody who gives a shit starts to argue about the Right Way(tm) it should be done.
Anything that a company offers to The Community is, implicitly, an RFC.
If your request gets you no commentary, that's when there's a problem.
Beware the day when any of the people involved want to stop the dialogue,
not the day when the dialogue is passionate.
--
pohl (pohl at screaming.org) on Wednesday March 24, @12:54PM EST
http://slashdot.org/articles/99/03/24/1226228.shtml
In my years as a therapist
I found it very helpful
when clients were brave enough
to question my fallibility and point out _my_ issues.
Not only did it
accelerate our therapeutic process immensely,
but it also facilitated
my personal and professional growth
by helping me see my blind spots.
It is helpful to assume
that therapists and teachers of all sorts
tend to teach what they most need to learn
rather than what they have already mastered.
And, while they may have developed great skill
in their particular area of expertise,
this very specialization
may make it difficult
for them to make recommendations
beyond the parameters of their particular field.
A parabola is certainly a function with
a well-defined minimum,
but it's too easy. ...
Second-order methods ... fit a parabolic arc
through neighboring data points. If
we use a parabola as our test case,
such methods will hit the exact solution
on the very next trial. That's
hardly a challenge to the algorithm ...
The cosine function has one minimum
in the region 0..2π, but again,
it's too symmetric and not challenging enough.
Here's a function that I've settled on,
that is tricky enough to provide some challenge:
f(x) = cos( 2 * pi * x^3 );
Because the function is analytic,
we can calculate the location of its minimum
...
Numerically,
x(min) =~= 0.7937005259841
http://www.veridian.com/
,
or
http://www.veridianltd.com/
or
http://www.veridiandesign.com/
or
the Viridian movement
http://www.viridiandesign.org
Viridian Design Movement Mailing List & Link Archive
http://www.bespoke.org/viridian/index.asp?t=140
...
There are 16 different psychological types in Jung's theory
as elaborated by Kathrine Briggs and Isabel Myers.
All 16 of these types are good.
Each has its own unique set of special gifts.
There are no bad types-no types that are less desirable than others.
When the MBTI identifies a person's preferences and thus a person's psychological type,
what is indicated are simply normal healthy differences.
Each of the 16 MBTI types is identified by a four-letter code.
The first letter, either "E" or "I,"
tells whether a person prefers an extraverted or an introverted attitude.
The second letter, either "S" or "N,"
tells whether the person prefers sensing or intuition as a way of perceiving
(the letter "N" is used for intuition
because the letter "I" was already used for introversion).
The third letter of the psychological type code, either "T" or "F,"
tells whether the person prefers thinking or feeling as a way of judging.
The final letter, either "J" or "P,"
tells whether the person prefers a judging or a perceiving orientation to the outside world
-- whether the person prefers to
deal with the external world through the preferred way of judging
(either thinking or feeling) or
the preferred way of perceiving
(either sensing or intuition).
...
...
The group's most important creation is not the perfect software they write --
it's the process they invented that writes the perfect software.
...
Don't just fix the mistakes -- fix whatever permitted the mistake in the first place.
...
the group avoids blaming people for errors. The process assumes blame - and it's the process that is analyzed to discover why and how an error got through. At the same time, accountability is a team concept: no one person is ever solely responsible for writing or inspecting code.
...
The way the process works, it not only finds errors in the software. The process finds errors in the process.
...
As an editor, I pride myself on my ability to take in barely-intelligible scratchings and
turn out clear, readable prose.
The problem is that this doesn't even qualify ...
I have no idea what it means. Do you?
Mr. Johnson-Laird
specializes in performing plagiarism assessment of computer software
for purposes of assessing copyright infringement,
software methodology and claim analysis for patent infringement, and
authorship analysis for misappropriation of trade secrets.
Mr. Johnson-Laird also specializes in "Techno-Archeology",
the analysis of failed software development projects
(projects that fail to meet contractual requirements or
that are terminated for cause prior to completion),
multimedia and digital video analysis, and
computer-based evidence preservation, recovery, and analysis.
The motion picture industry has failed to police itself against the evils of bad physics.
This page is provided as a public service in hopes of improving this deplorable matter.
The minds of our children and their ability to master vectors are (shudder) at stake.
Todo: after buying a CD burner, check out
http://www.cdrlabs.com/reviews/
for CD burning software.
By the way,
our Milky Way galaxy is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy.
We will likely collide with it ...
No need to worry.
We have top people working on the problem who assure us it will not happen
for another 7 billion years.
...
there are only about 6000 astrophysicists in the world.
With a world population of about 6 billion people,
we're about one in a million.
So if you ever sit next to one ... ask all
the cosmic questions you have because you never know
when such an educational opportunity will arise again.
...
... a National Virtual Observatory (NVO). ...
unlike time on a telescope,
access to data is in principle unlimited.
...
Of all the science cultivated by mankind,
astronomy is acknowledged to be
and undoubtedly is,
the most sublime and the most interesting.
For by knowledge derived from this science,
not only the bulk of the earth is discovered,
but our faculties are enlarged,
with the grandeur of the ideas it conveys,
our minds exalted above the low contracted prejudices
of the vulgar.
-- James Ferguson,
_Astronomy Explained Upon
Sir Isaac Newton's Principles_, 1757
...
the Sloan Digital Sky Survey ...
can be used by ... anyone on the Internet.
...
Computer visualization
has lent new eyes to these and many more fields,
but perhaps sound could add another dimension
to perceiving the same data.
Sonification --
``the use of non-speech audio to convey information'' --
is clearly a nascent field compared to visualization.
...
...
Composer and computer scientist Marty Quinn
has produced musical works
that convey complex relationships in huge data sets...
...
leading us to a new science in biology called proteomics.
... biologists can't do this by themselves.
... It requires chemists, physicists,
engineers, mathematicians, and computer scientists. ...
Once consequence of trying to decipher the 3 billion units of information in DNA
is that we soon reach the limits of human comprehension.
Only computers can store such data...
...
Biotechnology is an infant industry.
... new pharmaceutical agents ... the low-hanging fruit of biotechnology
and it offers the highest return on captital.
...
But we're yet to sufficiently turn our attention
to a lot of big questions.
Can we use biological methods to trap sunlight ... ?
Can we provide stable resources of food and income
for the poor people of the world ... ?
...
Can we lengthen life ?
...
...
gene therapy
...
will not be inherited by the children of these treated people ...
But what if we could make changes in the inheritance of our species ?
We do it now in mice; [and] other animals.
...
Is it right to affect the inheritance of generations to come ?
...
...
Today, if a part wears out or is seriously damaged by disease,
our only hope is an organ or tissue transplant
from another person.
...
The best thing clearly would be to take out our own stem cells,
... grow them up, and use them as transplants.
...
That's probably the Holy Grail of the moment.
...
...
Our thoughts today are our own, but
once we understand the physical basis of consciousness
and how the the nervous system generates consciousness
.... Might we then be able to tap into other people's thoughts ?
Already scientists interested in the control of artificial limbs
are finding regions of the brain that control
the intention to make a movement.
...
...
the new genetic knowledge ... So what does it all mean ?
Longer, healthier lives for most of the wealthy people of the world.
...
We need a hybrid view --
one that reveres the rights and intrinsic nature of people but
at the same time
understands that each of us is a bag of tissues and chemical reactions and electrical impulses.
There is nothing intrinsic to life that is not present in nonliving systems.
...
[FIXME: look up online version]
``The Computer Revolution Hasn't Happened Yet'' is difficult to discuss on paper ...
by Alan Kay
Active essay first written for the ACM1 Conference, March 13, 2001
Published on http://www.squeakland.org
...
suggested readings:
Alan Kay: ``Personal Dynamic Media'', article in _IEEE Spectrum_ 1977-03
Alan Kay: _Scientific American_ 1977-09
Alan Kay: _Scientific American_ 1984-09
Seymour Papert: _Mindstorms_
Neil Postman: _Teaching as a Subversive Activity_, Dell
Neil Postman: _Amusing ourselves to Death_, Viking Press
Neil Postman: _The Disappearance of Childhood_, Vintage Books
Lev Vygotsky: _Thought and Language_, MIT press.
...
Computer systems can exhibit a sliver of intelligence...
we have no basis for
predicting that the broader kind of machine intelligence
we all dream about
will or will not materialize.
While that calls for a great deal of fun-laden research,
we urgently need to
make our systems human-centered,
starting with the technology we have today,
not by pretending that our imaginings and our wishes have come true.
...
the excessive learning fault,
where the manual for a word processing program
that does little more than the work of a pencil
boasts 600 pages.
...
...
information tachnology has the incredible potential
to serve human needs and
help us improve the way we live and work.
But to get there we must focus on
making our systems profoundly human-centered.
...
We cannot get out of this mess incrementally
any more than we can go to the moon by climbing a tree.
...
...
we have focused our early energies
on discovering new terrain rather than on human utility.
But we have done this long enough
...
...
separate the information we need from the hardware we use...
...
by 2009, computers will disappear.
Displays will be written
directly to the retina.
...
We are currently adding 120 days every year
to human life expectancy and will add
more than a year every year within 10 years.
...
people tend to overestimate what can be achieved in the short term
(because we tend to leave out necessary details)
but underestimate what can be achieved in the long term
(because exponential growth is ignored).
...
Technology goes beyond mere toolmaking;
it is a process of creating ever more powerful technology
using the tools from the previous round of innovation.
...
The first technological steps --
sharp edges, fire, the wheel --
...
...
Gordon Moore...
noted in the mid-1970s
that we could squeeze twice as many transistors on an integrated circuit
every 24 months.
Given that the electrons have less distance to travel,
the circuits also run twice as fast, providing an overall
quadrupling of computational power.
After 60 years of devoted service,
Moore's law will die ... no later than the year 2019.
By that time,
transistor features will be just a few atoms in width,
and the strategy of ever finer photolithography
will have run its course.
So, will that be the end of the exponential growth of computing ?
Don't bet on it.
...
It's obvious what what the sixth paradigm will be after Moore's law
runs out of steam during the second decade of this century.
Chips today are flat ...
There are many technologies in the wings that build circuitry in three dimensions.
Nanotubes, ...
three-dimensional silicon chips,
optical computing,
crystalline computing,
DNA computing, and
quantum computing,
...
...
machines can easily share their knowledge.
...
When one computer learns a skill or gains an insight,
it can immediately share that wisdom with billions of other machines.
...
projects already under way to scan the human brain ...
with a view both to understand the human brain in general
as well as provide a detailed description of the contents
and design of specific brains.
...
...
by the end of this decade
...
images written directly to our retinas by our eyeglasses and contact lenses.
All the electronics for the computation,
image reconstruction,
and very high bandwidth wireless connection to the Internet
will be embedded in our glasses and
woven into our clothing,
so computers as distinct objects will disappear.
...
...
Frankly,
those oversights make me a little nervous, and a little humble.
Not too humble, of course. Let's not get hysterical.
But a little humble.
...
So what do I see as I consider the great unanswered questions ?
...
...
we're still going to call it the Internet and the Web
for a really long time,
even after we change the thing entirely,
because those words have caught on.
It's a little like the word Ethernet,
which is very big again these days,
though the Ethernet now is not what I invented in 1973 --
it's a different thing entirely.
...
The movement of the Internet into homes --
and the connection of those homes with people and information around the world --
makes it less important to have all these buildings.
Because today a school is a building,
whereas tomorrow a school will be a
community of teachers and learners.
Of course, a cynic might protest that the hope for an educational network
(in the form of television)
has been around for a pretty good while now -- and has failed.
But failed by which criteria ?
It hasn't failed, it's succeeded !
...
70 percent of what children learn
they learn on television.
In other words, the market share of schools
has been declining in favor of electronic networks for some time...
pay-as-you-go, get-what-you-pay-for
... my pay-as-you-surf approach has been extremely controversial ...
the best is yet to come
...
The Internet started as a communication medium,
with e-mail and chat;
then it became a publishing medium offering documents on the Web;
then it became a medium of commerce; and
I believe the current bit thing ... will be the evolution of the Net
into an entertainment medium.
Not that the other aspects of the Internet will go away,
but the new energy will come from entertainment and information, and
related to that is education.
I way it in this way because I think it's really dangerous to
dichotomize entertainment and education -- they should probably go hand in hand,
and it's often difficult to tell the difference between them.
...
Maybe things change too fast for some people, but
they don't change fast enough for others.
All change is local.
...
I've always been the kind of person frustrated at the slowness
...
...
tyranny and evil always run from bright lights and
communication keeps people from lying.
...
what I call FOCACA, which stands for freedom of choice among competing alternatives.
Wherever in economics, politics, technology, and culture
you can arrange for there to be
freedom of choice among competing alternatives,
you end up better off.
...
...
...
a device that has enough computing power to perform
speech understanding and translation in real time
and fit in your ear.
This was a feature of the twenty-fourth century
Star Trek series,
but it may actually be accomplished during our own twenty-first century.
The ability to make very small devices that can compute and communicate
...
these objects can now be asked where they are
and they can respond.
Where did you leave that book ?
Who borrowed it ?
Ask it !
...
Interplanetary Internet protocols
http://www.ipnsig.org/
...
clothing that carries embedded computing and communication on board
...
(``Hello, this is Vint's shirt speaking. Vint isn't wearing me now.
I'm in the shirt drawer, and I was last cleaned on October 3, 2034'').
...
...
One of the central questions
in the social acceptance of ambient intelligence
is
whether people will be able to adapt
to the feeling that their environments are monitoring their every move,
waiting for the right moment to take care of them.
...
People also frequently express their concerns about the ... safety and security
of such systems ...
Also, the concern that an environment in which electronics make autonomous decisions on a large scale
could get out of control
needs to be taken seriously.
...
...
...
The major concerns of a ubicomp house are authentically houselike concerns:
air, temperature, light, space, structure, comfort,
safety, the array of homely possessions, and the general environment.
...
Is the foundation sound ?
...
Where are the stress cracks ... ?
Are there leaks, drips, or shorts ?
...
...
Where is the sunlight and the prevailing wind ?
...
A sensitive house should sense the pollen count,
the mold count,
the traffic fumes, and the ozone.
A network of sensitive homes
should find it very easy to locate point sources of pollution,
enabling their owners to take some practical,
fully documented action against these crass offenders
to their peace and safety.
...
People in ubicomp homes never lose their shoes,
their glasses, or their house keys...
The house always senses the presence,
location, and condition
of all domestically vital objects.
...
...
Contemporary people have far more possessions than any human brain can catalog.
This leads to many hours of frustrated searching,
many a pointless domestic squabble,
and a constant low-level anxiety about theft, neglect, and decline.
But if all your possessions become network peripherals, ...
...
I don't really want a constant shovel underfoot;
what I want is an occasional shoveling functionality.
[FIXME: crosslink: ask for what you really want]
...
Once we're comfortable with this new model of ownership,
we can pool our resources to Web-search for all such goods.
...
...
radical change in the intimate relationship betweeen humankind and its things.
...
...
It is scary and profoundly unsafe to hook physical processes and events together in unpredictable,
invisible, computer-centric ways.
...
It would be much better to see ubicomp evolve...
from proven areas in real life ... in brisk, humble, practical ways.
...
...
What is it ?
...
Where is it ?
...
what condition is it in ?
The shipping company
already needs to know these three things
for their own convenience so they might as tell me, too.
...
... the object arrives in my possesion with the shipper's
ubicomp attached.
When that object arrives, I simply keep the tracking tag.
...
...
I'm a trained anthropologist.
They train us to understand how societies work -- not how to make people happy.
...
What Al really wanted... was ...
To become a fully realized, fully authentic human being.
... a truly decent person.
Honest, helpful, forthright, moral.
A modern philosopher. A friend to humanity.
...
...
Is Al a totally together guy, on top and in charge,
cleverly shaping his own destiny
through a wise choice of tools, concepts, and approaches ?
...
a universe of distributed, pervasive, and ubiquitous smart objects
...
lightness, dematerialization, brutally rapid product cycles,
steady iterative improvement,
renewability,
and fantastic access and abundance
...
What if you tried your level best
to be a real-life, fully true human being,
and it just plain couldn't work ?
...
Unless we significantly broaden our understanding of the learning process,
information technology is more likely to produce
learned zombies
than
educated human beings.
Cyberspace teaches us to be passive observers,
not skilled participants in life.
...
When I speak of the body
I'm referring to the living process of how we shape our experience;
not to our fixed, anatomical parts.
...
...
if we disregard the body in our learning
we become book smart but are unable to take new actions.
...
...
The martial arts section tested the Marine's response
to six seperate attacks at 25 percent speed.
...
...
For the most part they just stood there with a blank look on their face,
hands nervously twitching,
and then at the last minute they awkwardly evaded the attacker or at best
performed a poorly executed counterattack.
Very few took a stance,
alighned to the attacker, raised hands in protection,
or did anything even faintly resembling a fighting posture they may have
gleaned from a martial arts movie.
...
It suddenly dawned on me...
It reminded me of an incident some years before
when I was addressing a group of about 150 second-year engineering students.
As I presented my talk
...
When I interrupted a particularly noisy group
to ask them to join me in the discussion,
they appeared momentarily bewildered.
They looked at me blankly, shrugged,
and resumed their conversations.
...
I was nothing more to them than a talking head
on a TV screen.
They weren't particularly pernicious
but simply acted acted as they do when sitting in front of a TV or computer.
They were mildly amused
but felt no compunction to relate to me
in a direct, straightforward way.
...
What somatics proposes is
a fully integrated individual
who embodies athletic prowess, emotional maturity, and a spiritual sensibility.
...
...
organize around a reality that is direct and immediate.
Doing so we inhabit ourselves more fully
...
Being intimate with our own sensations and innter conversations
enables greater intimacy with others and the world.
...
live our lives with heart, intelligence, and strength.
...
perform at the highest levels possible,
whether in sports, the arts, business, technology, or parenting.
...
General Schoomaker,
Commander of the Special Operations Command, said it well,
...
we can dismiss these accounts by saying that machines can accomplish these feats
with more ease and less suffering.
But it's witless of us to overlook the vast untapped potential
in the human being
that produces such wonders.
We should be investing at least an equal amount in
the research and training of the human potential
as we do to
the development of robots, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology.
...
it is necessary to reexamine what we mean by education and quality of life.
Sitting in front of a computer screen alienates us from our
deep biological urge to interact with the living:
humans, animals, the landscape, weather, the seas.
We are designed to interact with life;
to cooperate, share, and reciprocate with others,
to seek trust, adventure, and love is the human experience.
...
the human qualities of love, passion, and self-reflection.
...
Together let us reinvent our schools and universities
so the wisdom of the heart and spirit,
instead of machines,
guide our children.
In the remainder of this essay, these four foundation words
are defined as ...
Lewis Perelman (1992) likens these distinctions to eating in a restaurant.
The data are symbols on the menu;
information is the understanding of what the menu offers;
knowledge is the dinner;
practice is the digestion that turns the dinner into useful nutrients.
...
...
Geoffrey Moore ... No relation to Gordon Moore ...
Geoffrey Moore ... witnessed hundred of new technology companies
start life with marvelous inventions
and rapid early market growth -- only to collapse suddenly within 3 years
... and they went out of business.
...
Moore ... divided people into 5 groups:
the inventors, the visionaries,
the pragmatists,
the laggards, and the ultraconservatives.
...
pragmatists are 70 to 80 percent of the population,
by far the largest group.
...
The founders meet initial success by selling their technology to
other inventors and visionaries,
who are quick to grasp the implications of the technology.
But ... they exhaust the small market of visionaries
...
pragmatists worry about stability, dependability, and reliability;
they want to use the technology but don't want to be victimized by breakdowns
or held hostage by single suppliers; ...
the company leadership discovers too late that their marketing story and approach
communicates with other early adopters like themselves, but not with pragmatists.
...
...
Customers are not abstract entities with Internet accounts
who buy computers.
They are people with concerns, breakdowns, hopes, fears, and ambitions.
...
We pursue research questions to satisfy our own curiosity but
build [too] few stories of how our results will benefit our users...
...
the leadership, management, and people skills professionals need.
...
practices
practices are habits, routines, processes, and skills performed by
individuals and groups
from experience
and with little or no thought ...
Practices ... enable us to get things done quickly, without reflection.
Practices are learned by doing and by involvement with people who already embody them;
...
Mental knowledge and practices are different forms of knowledge;
the one does not imply the other.
Trying to understand knowledge without understanding practices
is like expecting to play par golf
after reading a book on the physics of golf swings ...
...
innovation
Innovation is the adoption of new practices by people in a community...
Inventions and good ideas are not innovations.
The patent office bristles with inventions
that were never commercialized -- inventions that never produced innovations.
...
...
New tools enable new practices...
ACM Digital Library
http://acm.org/dl
--
_The Invisible Future: the seamless integration of technology with everyday life_
book edited by Peter J. Denning, editor. 2002
What do you want to do today? See something yucky? Burn rubber?
Start a collection? Or make some money?
You can do all of these. But probably not all at the same time.
Thank you for purchasing a McDonnell Douglas military aircraft.
In order to protect your new investment,
please take a few moments to fill out the warranty registration card below.
...
...
...
Probably the most damaging misconception we hear of
is the idea of using bottom-feeding scavengers to keep a pond clear and clean.
These would be fish such as carp, bullhead, some catfishes, and grass carp in a few cases.
In most every instance these fish will be a major problem for your pond.
...
If you need to reduce the depth of the organic layer (muck) in the bottom of your pond,
there are much easier ways to accomplish this
without introducing undesireable fish or spending a small fortune on chemicals, or
commercial bacteria
...
...
But I've heard several other people mention
Most popular in freshwater is the fish commonly called a "pleco."
Other useful fish include the "Chinese algae eater,"
otolincus catfish ("O" Cat), and the "Flying Fox."
I think they're referring to the
Plecostomus:
South American sucker cat fish.
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From: Mitchell Porter <mitch at thehub.com.au>
To: transhuman at logrus.org
...
An autopoietic system is basically a self-regenerating system - see,
for example, http://alf.nbi.dk/~emmeche/coPubl/97d.NABCE/ExplEmer.html.
(I say 'basically', since Maturana & Varela's work, e.g. _Autopoiesis
and cognition_, has philosophical subtleties which I do not fathom.)
...
-mitch
http://www.thehub.com.au/~mitch
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 19:19:25 -0500 (EST)
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-------------------------------------------------------------
1998-05-09 Passivity Seen as Not Passe
The following report was prepared by Miriam Bloom
, editor of our new sub-publication
"The Journal of the Passive Voice":
"A great deal of pleasure was felt when this fine letter was
received by me, who was appointed editor of the JPV. It was
written by Ross Knights":
* * *
I was struck by the offer that had been recently presented to me
via the Web to be allowed the opportunity for my work to be seen
worldwide.
The goal is considered imperative that the use of active
voice will have been limited as much as possible, or will have
been be stamped out utterly. The active voice has been eschewed in
everything done by me, either written or spoken. Feelings can be
spared and diplomacy improved by the application of some simple
principles that are known to all educated speakers of English.
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http://www.improb.com/
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 15:54:26 -0600
From: Richard Daniel
--
Alvy Ray Smith
http://www.research.microsoft.com/graphics/alvy/,
in
"The Stuff of Dreams" article
in Computer Graphics World
http://www.cgw.com/
1998-07
we must create an impedance match
between artists and complex models. ... Woody
and Buzz of /Toy Story/ [have] about 700 controls each. ...
Human-like characters will probably require
thousands of controls. This is simply too much,
even for ... artists ...
it's time for what I call the Single Creative App. This
is what I want as a creator, so I'm assuming it's what
you want too. ... a single application that integrates
sound and pictures, 2D and 3D, geometry and imaging,
animation and interactivity, and handles all logistics,
including intellectual property, asset,
and project management. This
one application, rather than 15 apps
and the conversion filters between them all,
is something that could be accomplished now."
--
Alvy Ray Smith
http://www.research.microsoft.com/graphics/alvy/,
in
"The Stuff of Dreams" article
in Computer Graphics World
http://www.cgw.com/
1998-07
Mac Graphic Programming (free source)
From: Vince Kerchner <vincek at intergalact.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.scitech
Subject: Minimum bound of a circle set
Date: 19 May 1995 17:44:16 GMT
Organization: Intergalactic Reality
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Message-ID: <3pildg$l6c@news1.best.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: vincek.vip.best.com
Mime-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (Macintosh; I; 68K)
X-URL: news:comp.sys.mac.scitech
(This post is in regards to a question which was asked on the
sci.math.num-analysis news group. However, my reply has application to
Mac scientific programming, so I'm posting it here too.)
Morteza Saheb Zamani <morteza at vast.unsw.edu.au> asked:
>Does anyone know about any algorithm to find "minimum bounding circle
>of a set of circles"? Any pointer is appreciated.
>
>Is there any public domain package to do these sorts of thinkgs?
I thought this was a very interesting problem, so yesterday afternoon I
wrote a short algorithm and Mac program to do just this. You can see a
description of the program, graphic output from the program in action,
and a listing of the source code, at my WWW site.
The URL for this page is:
http://www.intergalact.com/circles.html
Or, you can access it from my home page at:
http://www.intergalact.com/vincek.html
under "Math Esoterica: Minimum Bounding Circles".
If you don't have a (graphics-capable) Web browser, I can send you the
text for this page. If you would like to receive the stand-alone Mac
program, let me know and I'll send it to you or put it up at my FTP
site.
--Vince
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machine communication: ontologies
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 1996 00:00:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Anders Sandberg <nv91-asa at nada.kth.se>
Subject: Re: >H The Web, agents, bots, and the >Web
...
> > This is a hot area in agent programming (a subject which is otherwise
> > filled with hype); several projects are looking at ontologies
> > (structured, machine-readable descriptions of domains, their elements and
> > their interrelations) as a universal agent communication syntax.
...
Take a look at
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/knowledge-sharing/ontologies/html/
which is a web about the meta-ontology ontolingua. There are also lots of
references at http://www.sics.se/isl/abc/survey.html#integration
FAQs for laptops and portables
comp.sys.mac.portables FAQ
http://sigma-nu.cwru.edu/brothers/1039/FAQ
snippets from
Comp.sys.laptops FAQ
From: dbridges at ERC.MsState.Edu (Douglas Bridges)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Comp.Sys.Laptops FAQ
Date: 3 Aug 1995 16:02:07 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University
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X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]
The following is a preliminary FAQ that I have created for this
group. I would like any suggestions for what else I could put on it.
Unforutnately, I might have started doing this to late, because I am
having to move to a new job where my internet access will be next to
nil.
...
The
comp.sys.laptops
group discusses the issue relevant to the use
of portable computers. For the most part, the computers discussed have
Intel based processors. The group
comp.sys.mac.portables
has been created for the discussion of Powerbooks.
...
4.0 What is PCMCIA?
PCMCIA stands for Personal Computer Memory Card International
Association. It has lately come to stand for the cards that the
PCMCIA set up the standards for. They are small credit-card sized
cards that can be used for many different purposes. For the most
part they are used as modems or network cards, but there are also
cards for SCSI, serial ports, sound, hard disks, and memory.
...
Please e-mail and tell me what you think.
....
|dbridges at ERC.msstate.edu |
|
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article in _Reflections_ 1994 Spring.
From: Jonathan Bromley <jsebromley at brookes.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: C Headers
Date: 09 Nov 1999 00:00:00 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
...
Always be deeply suspicious of hacks that make it easier
to deal with simple cases. They almost always give you
terrible grief when you come to do industrial-strength
work. (Visual Basic, with its unspeakably shambolic
function call syntax, its *hundreds* of keywords and
its impossibly complicated type conversion rules, all
there to make it simpler to write those five-line demos
so beloved of salesmen?)
And never resent the time it takes to *write*
a program; remember a program is written once but
read many times.
Jonathan Bromley
who is amazed to find himself *defending* C for a change
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Subject: mini-AIR January 2001 -- Youngest Turk, The Temptations, etc
PLEASE FORWARD/POST AS APPROPRIATE
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2001-01-04 Renaissance Researcher of the Month
This month's Renaissance Researcher of the Month is Goronwy Tudor
Jones of the University of Birmingham School of Continuing
Studies. Jones' research interests, as listed on the school home
page, are:
1. An Introduction to Restricted Welsh Poetic Forms
2. Analysis of Bubble-Chamber Picture -- Estimate of
Mass of Positron
Details of both are at
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 17:51:24 -0600
???
[general programming][data compression]
http://www.programmersheaven.com/zone22/cat166/2271.htm
???
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~dmo/bookmarks.html
[computer graphics tools]
2D Draw Program
http://www.leetx.org/2DDP.html
lots of drawing programs, some of them specialized for maps.
[gEDA, perhaps data_compression.html]
http://joj.home.texas.net/acceltip02.html
[]
http://www.i18nwithvb.com/
[humor ... ?]
Star Wars ASCIImation
http://www.asciimation.co.nz/
[]
e-names.org
[David Cary already emailed ... humor ?]
David Cary
2001-08-24 05:29 PM
To: jamesnewton at piclist.com
cc:
Subject: david email addy changed (Document link: David Cary)
Dear James Newton,
You've probably noticed that any mail sent to my ``BrunswickOutdoor.com'' email
address gets an auto-reply giving my new email address.
I think your FAQ specifically mentions ``don't set up an automatic out-of-office
response when you're subscribed to a mailing list'', but
<trying to sound like Han Solo>
it's not my fault !
</Han Solo>
.
Could you change my subscription information to send email to my newly-assigned
address
david_cary@mercmarine.com
?
No, wait -- send it to
d.cary@ieee.org
instead. That professional organization seems much more stable than the IT
department of this company.
(Although I often go for a week without checking that address ... while I check
my work email most every day).
What would you say if you knew my company killed the BORG ?
Yes, the Brunswick Outdoor Recreational Group is no more. The various pieces
have been broken apart, sold to the highest bidder, or (like my group) absorbed
into a different branch of Brunswick.
:-/.
--
David Cary
Product Design Engineer
http://www.motorguide.com/
http://www.pinpointfishing.com/
voiceto: 1.918.266.8314
fax: 918-584-6150
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Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 17:12:53 -0600
<David_Cary at mercmarine.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 16:51:27 -0600
[quotes]
"Abd ul-Rahman Lomax" <marjan at vom.com> on 2001-06-29 03:12:59 AM
Please respond to "Protel EDA Forum" <proteledaforum at techservinc.com>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <proteledaforum at techservinc.com>
cc: (bcc: David Cary/TULSA/BRUNSWICKOUTDOOR)
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Quickly checking sync status between PCB & schematic
...
I'd say, put together what you can and then leave it; if someone needs to
work with that board again, you will have preserved what there is and given
him a running chance. If a project is not clean, it will take X hours to
fix it. If the fact that it is not clean is recorded and obvious, perhaps
with a README.txt in the .ddb, it will take X hours now or X hours later.
Since later may never come, game theory says put it off. Only if re-use is
likely, and you have spare time now, does cleaing it all up make sense.
There is another benefit to cleaning up everything now, however: it will
help the company to put pressure on the engineers to get it right the first
time. "We had to spend XXX hours cleaning up your ****** mess!" If the
engineer in question is the company president, perhaps it would be put
more politely....
There is nothing wrong with having someone routinely responsible for
cleaning up designs and especially with checking them over before they go
to fab. Large companies used to commonly employ people as design checkers,
I did it for a few months on a job shop assignment. Ideally, this person
has a channel back to the engineers and original designers to encourage
them to use practices that make the whole process more efficient. But
having a second person check things is always better than insisting that
one person do it all. If I had two designers here at this office, I'd have
each one check the other's work, rather than having each one spend extra
time going over their own work.
marjan at vom.com
Abdulrahman Lomax
P.O. Box 690
El Verano, CA 95433
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...
[linux]
[tosurf]
http://community.borland.com/
[failure mechanisms]
"Andrew J Jenkins" <anjen1 at ameritech.net> on 2001-08-06 11:03:08 PM
"Andrew J Jenkins" <anjen1 at ameritech.net> on 2001-08-06 11:03:08 PM
Please respond to "Protel EDA Forum" <proteledaforum at techservinc.com>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <proteledaforum at techservinc.com>
cc: (bcc: David Cary/TULSA/BRUNSWICKOUTDOOR)
Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT - low temp failure mechanisms
On 11:47 AM 8/7/2001 +1000, Ian Wilson wrote:
>G'Day,
>
>Anyone got good references to the failure mechanism of plastic packaged ICs at
lowish temps (not talking cryogenic) - but really about -40 deg C when a device
is 0 or -15 deg C rated.
>
>Need references to the failure mechanisms so appropriate power cycling,
pre-heating etc can be arranged (if possible).
FWIW, A quick search of the net yielded:
http://www.calce.umd.edu/general/grads/thesis/2001.htm
See abridged results entitled
Moisture Diffusion and Reliability Issues Associated with Moisture in Plastic
Encapsulated Microelectronics
and
Effects of Low Temperature Power Cycling on Reliability of Power Electronic
Devices
---
Packaging Trends
Using Integrated Circuits in Critical Applications Workshop
http://www.sandia.gov/eqrc/critical/dressendorfer.pdf
---
SSB-1: GUIDELINES FOR USING PLASTIC ENCAPSULATED MICROCIRCUITS AND
SEMICONDUCTORS IN MILITARY, AEROSPACE AND OTHER RUGGED APPLICATIONS
http://smaplab.ri.uah.edu/dmsms2k/papers/livingston.pdf
---
RELIABILITY CONSIDERATIONS FOR USING PLASTIC-ENCAPSULATED
MICROCIRCUITS IN MILITARY APPLICATIONS
http://rel.semi.harris.com/docs/rel/PEM/milplas.pdf
---
FAILURE MECHANISMS OF SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES
http://www.mitsubishichips.com/data/reliab/files/pdf/3reliab.pdf
---
There's also a slew of papers on wirebond issues listed at
http://extra.ivf.se/ngl/A-WireBonding/ChapterA4.htm
---
From a VERY quick review of the above documents (minus the last entry),
corrosive failure of wire bonds due to diffused water (thru package) seems
likely to be the big problem, perhaps augmented by low temp "storage" of ICs,
(higher likelihood for condensation onto ICs after power is removed from
circuitry?) and finally additional stresses on these partially corroded
wire-bonds due to high local thermal gradients on power-up.
<ed-ya-muh-cated guess-mode off>
Wish I could have provided you with a more definitive treatment of the
subject...
aj
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"Andrew J Jenkins" <anjen1 at ameritech.net> on 2001-08-06 11:31:32 PM
"Andrew J Jenkins" <anjen1 at ameritech.net> on 2001-08-06 11:31:32 PM
Please respond to "Protel EDA Forum" <proteledaforum at techservinc.com>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <proteledaforum at techservinc.com>
cc: (bcc: David Cary/TULSA/BRUNSWICKOUTDOOR)
Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT - low temp failure mechanisms
A couple more:
ADI Reliability Handbook
http://radhome.gsfc.nasa.gov/radhome/papers/RHA98.pdf
The following is a synopsis of a 1999 MicroChip corp presentation:
"
STRAIN MEASUREMENTS IN A THERMALLY-CYCLED FLIP-CHIP-ON-BOARD SOLDERBALL.
Elizabeth Drexler , National Institute of Standards and Technology, Materials
Reliability Division, Boulder, CO.
The mismatch between the coefficients of thermal expansion of the silicon chip
and the organic substrate has been mitigated through the practice of using
underfill in
flip-chip packages. The shear stresses on the solderballs furthest from the
neutral point appear to be eased by coupling the chip to the substrate with
underfill. Yet solder
fatigue and package failures still occur. This is particularly true for
flip-chips on organic substrates that are thermally cycled to low (-55 C)
temperatures, as well as elevated
temperatures (125 C). In this study we used electron-beam moiré to measure
displacements and calculate strains in a solderball contained in a
flip-chip-on-board package. A
pitch of 450 nm was used to allow detailed measurements of the displacements.
Images were acquired of the solderball during ten thermal cycles of the package
between
-55 C and 125 C. U-field and v-field images were collected. Initially elastic
displacements were observed and measured, and the out-of-plane displacements
were more
significant than the shear displacements. Subsequent cycles produced plastic
deformations in the solderball. The source, magnitude, and progression of these
plastic
deformations and the potential for failure will be discussed.
"
I hope some of this is relevant...
aj
[]
"Andrew J Jenkins" <anjen1 at ameritech.net> on 2001-08-07 06:46:17 AM
"Andrew J Jenkins" <anjen1 at ameritech.net> on 2001-08-07 06:46:17 AM
Please respond to "Protel EDA Forum" <proteledaforum at techservinc.com>
To: "Protel EDA Forum" <proteledaforum at techservinc.com>
cc: (bcc: David Cary/TULSA/BRUNSWICKOUTDOOR)
Subject: Re: [PEDA] OT - low temp failure mechanisms
On 03:16 PM 8/7/2001 +1000, Ian Wilson wrote:
>At 12:31 AM 7/08/01 -0400, you wrote:
>><..snip..>
>>I hope some of this is relevant...
>>
>>aj
>
>Thanks Andrew - very relevant and the other references as well.
>
>I did search on the www (google) for all sorts of combinations of key words
like "low temperature integrated circuit plastic packaged reliability...".
If you need more, try searches using
"Low-temperature failure mode for plastic encapsulated IC"
"failure mode for plastic encapsulated IC" ,
as these are the two that hit paydirt for me. (Google)
Also, if there's a need for more, try Lycos and Webcrawler (both of which have
long histories and for me, a better hit ratio on tech topics).
Unfortunately, there doesn't appear to be a lot of easily available material on
the specific issue of ~-40.C failure modes, but the general topic of
failure-modes is covered quite thoroughly.
<O.T.^2>
I find it kinda interesting (and more than a bit irritating) to note that syntax
seems critical to discovering useful info (spelled "educational information")
in/on search engines these days. When I put "failure mode" at the back of the
query on Google, most of the returned entries were simply commercial sites, all
barking their wares, yet turned around, suddenly I discover the real info.
I'd give my left baby-toe-nail to figure out the secret key to using syntax in
search engines. Sometimes I can re-word a query dozens (literally) of times
before chancing on a word combination that circumvents the barkers and gets to
the guts. It was just too easy in the old days...
aj
The ideal car is grey, or more accurately, dirt colored.
Since I don't plan to ever wash my car,
I want something that is happiest when completely covered with grime.
Grey is the closest match; another possibility is to
start with white and let it become grey by itself.
The car will be cheap enough
that I don't care if it gets dented, stolen, abandoned in a traffic jam,
or destroyed by a college fraternity as part of their weird initiation rituals.
--
Jeff Breidenbach
http://www.jab.org/www/coffin.html
about the software programmers who write the software
for the space shuttle
[c_programming ? astro.html ?]
http://www.asktog.com/lighterside/scribblemongerOnEditing.html
[FIXME: finish reading.
how to categorize ? parody ?
]
--
``science's endless golden age'' chapter by Neil deGrasse Tyson
--
``a compass for computing's future'' chapter by Rita Colwell
--
``how biology became an information science''
chapter by David Baltimore
nanotech.html#dna
--
``human-centered systems''
chapter by Michael L. Dertouzos
--
``fine living in virtual reality''
chapter by Ray Kurzweil
http://www.kurzweilai.net/
[
learning.html#brain
]
--
``life after Internet''
chapter by Bob Metcalfe, as told to John Gehl
[
learning.html
]
DAV: very funny.
--
``one is glad to be of service''
chapter by Vint Cerf
``ambient intelligence''
chapter by Emile Aarts, Rick Harwig, and Martin Shuurmans
when our environments become really smart
chapter by Bruce Sterling
They think they're in a video game!
I thought to myself.
What's important is to equip men, not man equipment.
somatics in cyberspace
chapter by Richard Strozzi Heckler
http://www.ranchostrozzi.com/
[FIXME: learning.html]
...
when IT becomes a profession
chapter by Peter J. Denning
The Definitive Source for Independent Reviews & Information
on Outdoors Gear and Survival Equipment and Techniques
emergency survival information
it’s better to have too much survival gear than none at all.
--
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I'm in favor of letting a racist speak at an anti-racism conference, but
I won't be so arrogant as to tell people
who wish to protest against the presence of a racist
that they are a bunch of 'kooks' and 'loons'.
http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/02/11/2118256.shtml?tid=19
http://tuma.stc.cx/nuclinux.php
is based on tomsrtbt
Virtual Linux is basically the Mandrake Linux operating system, modified to run directly from your cd rom drive.
It can be run with or without a hard drive.
This is great for showing people the power and flexibility of Linux.
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and you will soon have a powerful Linux system at your disposal...
all without the hassles of loading new software or repartioning your hard drive or any of that technical stuff.
http://www.virtual-linux.org/nuke/index.php
White Glove CD
...
Bootable CD
...
your files can be rescued from a windows computer over your local area network.
They are read-only,
so nothing you do will change them in any way.
...
firewall software
...
web and DNS servers.
...
Instantly turn your PC into a firewall and run your whole home network from one IP address.
Instantly examine your PC system without modification from the safety of the Bootable CD.
...
Instantly turn systems at sites you visit
into secure clients to safely access your information over the Internet via secure links.
...
Use the Bootable CD as a remote maintenance platform to repair problems
in systems without traveling to customer sites.
...
Local disks and disk partitions are identified, characterized, and mounted read-only.
http://all.net/WG/index.html
http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/
???
linux info ?
Apple: please put handles on Powerbooks! We carry these things!
...
Aluminum seems to be a better material for the case than the titanium Apple was using,
despite the reduction in cachet.
Everybody seems to think that titanium it like Mithril,
some sort of magical metal.
Truth is, it's no better than aluminum for many applications that don't require high structural strength.
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2792&page=2
[3d#materials]
the intangible way that the whole system fails to get in the way of my productivity
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=2792&page=5
MSDN Library stop list
A word stop list has been used to reduce the size of the keyword index and
increase search performance.
The following words are included on the MSDN Library stop word list:
a, am, an, and, are, as, at, be, been, being, but, by, can, could, did,
do, does, doing, done, for, from, had, has, have, he, here, how,
I, in, is, it, its, may, not, of, on, or, saw, see, seen,
she, so, that, the, them, then, there, these, they, this, those, to, too,
very, was, we, when, where, which, with, you.
"Cascading" also sounds better than dripping, spilling, or falling over.
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/colUnmasking.aspx
Crabby Office Lady: Solid Advice with an Attitude
http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/2002/articles/crabby_columns.aspx
tips and tricks for using Microsoft Office.
funny.
DAV refuses to use the word "utilize". Grumpy Martha feels the same way.
Grumpy Martha's Guide to Grammar and Usage
http://encarta.msn.com/column/grammarironic.asp
MISTAKES ARE GOOD
http://encarta.msn.com/column/accidentalinventions.asp
a great little book on the topic called Mistakes that Worked, by Charlotte Foltz Jones. It's written for kids, but it's the sort of thing that's a fun read even for adults.
...
study your errors.
You may find things you were never looking for, things that could change the world, or
at the very least, taste really good.
-- recc. Martha Brockenbrough
writer James Joyce, "Mistakes are the portals for discovery."
Why You Should Keep a Journal
http://encarta.msn.com/column/journal.asp
recommends
_The Voyage of the Beagle_ book by Charles Darwin
book online at
http://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-voyage-of-the-beagle/
implantable cardiac pacemaker ... invented by Wilson Greatbatch
"Know It All: What Should Everyone Learn?" article by Tamim Ansary
http://encarta.msn.com/column/knowmain.asp
[#learning; perhaps #bootstrap; #science; #non-intuitive]
The trouble is,
"making perfect sense" is just what doesn't constitute proof in science.
The history of science is full of ideas that made perfect sense but
turned out to be wrong.
DAV liked this article.
[email Mom]
history is not a separate subject of study. It's an aspect of every subject. No matter what field you're operating in, it has a historical context.
--
Dr. Alan Kraut, a history professor at American University,
quoted by Tamim Ansary
http://encarta.msn.com/column/knowhistory.asp
[#everything]
http://moneycentral.msn.com/
[investment]
"3 Bugs You Should Love"
article by Martha Brockenbrough
http://encarta.msn.com/column/bugsmostlovable.asp
entomology
Butterflies and Moths
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefMedList.aspx?refid=761578331
eye candy
"Parthenogenesis: Do-it-yourself Reproduction"
article by David George Gordon
http://encarta.msn.com/column/sciencepartho.asp
[#cloning]
We don't use the word willpower. We prefer the word motivation."
http://encarta.msn.com/column/willpower.asp
[spin]
"Will (philosophy and psychology)"
Encyclopedia Article from Encarta
http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761553442
[#free will]
"12 Ways to Make the Most of Summer"
article by Martha Brockenbrough
http://encarta.msn.com/column/summermain.asp
includes
"Build your own radio station"
http://encarta.msn.com/column/summerhighschool.asp
and
"Start a business"
http://encarta.msn.com/column/summerhighschool.asp
[#local]
Bill Nye's Web site
http://www.billnye.com/
has 40 experiments you can do at home without getting into too much trouble.
--
http://encarta.msn.com/column/summerunder14.asp
[email Sarah ?]
http://www.petersons.com/summerop/
http://www.snagajob.com/
http://www.dwd.state.wi.us/
Find a Summer Job
http://www.trincoll.edu/depts/career/guides/summer_job.shtml
[should I make a special "summer jobs" section ? #jobs]
http://encarta.msn.com/column/philanthropy.asp
points to
http://philanthropy.com/
[philanthropy]
http://www.thrillionaires.org/
Unknowns
DAV: What is one thing you know now that you wish you knew when you were younger ?
What is one thing you will learn in 5 years that you wish you knew now ?
(adapted from a question I found at
http://encarta.msn.com/column/mothersdayquestions.asp
which has useful questions to ask your mom.
)
9. Please check the products that you currently own or intend to purchase in the near future:
[_] Color TV
[_] VCR
[_] ICBM
[_] Killer Satellite
[_] CD Player
[_] Air-to-Air Missiles
[_] Space Shuttle
[_] Home Computer
[_] Nuclear Weapon
Started ? before 1996 Nov 12
Original Author: David Cary.
d.cary@ieee.org.