Here are some of the periodicals I find most interesting.
updated 2003-12-18
David also maintains related files:
- Gmail http://gmail.google.com/gmail
-
NewsHub
http://www.NewsHub.com/science/
apparently updated almost every hour (!)
-
Millennium Weekend Ministries > WEDG Forums
/* was
http://upway.com/weekend/
*/
-- recc. Debora C.
-
http://CommunityWiki.org/
and several other wikis ... [FIXME: copy from index page ?]
-
http://wikipedia.org/
-
Robotic Nation Evidence: Evidence of the developing Robotic Nation
http://roboticnation.blogspot.com/
-
Dr. Clifford A. Pickover
http://pickover.com/
puzzles.
"Calculus and Pizza" book by Dr. Clifford A. Pickover
"Dr. Cliff Pickover has published nearly a book a year in which he stretches the limit of computers, art, and
thought." - Los Angeles Times
-
http://www.voanews.com/
has news in
English,
Français (French),
Español (Spanish),
Chinese,
and many other languages.
-
http://crosswire.org/ucgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/
???
-
http://www.opinion-pages.org/
-
The latest discussions on nanotechnology occur over on
http://nanodot.org/
-
Embedded Systems Programming
http://www.embedded.com/
[schematic ?]
-
http://www.zdnet.com/
-
Yahoo ! News
http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/
-
Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
ever-changing
-
http://www.ourpla.net/cgi-bin/pikie.cgi
(Wiki)
???
-
http://www.technomanifestos.com/
(Wiki)
???
-
Astronomy Picture of the Day
http://www.futurenews.org/
???
-
http://w2.nasatech.com/WWWboard/reader_board.html
???
-
Wide Open News
http://www.wideopen.com/
???
-
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/
-
Christianity Today
http://www.ChristianityToday.com/
-
Daily Diffs
/* was
http://www.dailydiffs.com/
*/
"a summary of 1,500 of the most dynamic pages on the web".
(What happened ? It looks like it's been taken offline; the URL redirects to a inferior version as of 2005-03-26 )
-
The
Foresight Exchange
http://ideosphere.com/
(formerly known as the "Idea Futures game") is a fascinating way of "betting"
on the future, reaching a consensus on what everyone feels is the "most probable"
date of future events.
It has some similarities to a stock market.
-
Computer Currents magazine:
Linux News & Editorial
http://www.currents.net/newstoday/linuxnews.html
-
http://www.dejanews.com/[ST_chan=cpu]/categories/Computing+Tech/Programming+Software/
-
Computer Currents Magazine
http://www.currents.net/
-
http://www.techweb.com/
Try clicking "Internet" (no, not Networking),
then scrolling down to the
"Open Source Software" section.
-
http://rworld.org/edigest/
-
http://physics.about.com/
news and references to
quantum computers,
laser physics,
acoustics,
etc.
-
Ars Technica: The PC enthusiast's resource
http://arstechnica.com/
[laptop ? ... computer building ...]
-
"Slashdot.org: News for Nerds. Stuff That Matters."
http://slashdot.org/
-
_EDN_
http://www.e-insite.net/ednmag/
/* was
http://www.ednmag.com/
? */
has a interesting
``EDN's Technical Press Review''
where they review
especially interesting articles
in *other* magazines.
-
TransDot: Emerging Trends and Technologies
http://www.memetree.com/
short articles and your comments --
similar to Slashdot,
but with issues relevant to transhumans.
(offline ?)
UseNet news, magazines, newspapers, zines,
and other periodically-updated news sources.
Usenet News
Many traditions and customs have grown up around Usenet News.
One interesting one is
http://www.eiffel.com/discipline/
.
David's favorite Usenet Newsgroups:
-
http://www.deja.com/group/alt.games.programming
because I've always wanted to write my own
video game
video_game.html
with lots of high-speed, dynamic visuals.
I keep thinking that I just need a few more
tools
computer_graphics_tools.html
.
-
http://www.deja.com/group/gnu.gcc.help
It seems that all the high-speed games
are written in C, with the occasional
assembly language thrown in.
Since I've used so many different machines
(I've done assembly language on
machines based on the
6502, 68000, 80386, ARM,
and done higher-level programming
on others based on none of the above
)
I've become processor-agnostic --
I try to do as much stuff as possible
in portable C (maybe even higher-level),
so I can easily switch machines
and only have to rewrite a small amount
of assembly.
-
http://www.deja.com/group/sci.image.processing
because I had a lot of fun with
Dr. Scott Acton in his
"Oklahoma Imaging Laboratory".
Video games are about rapidly creating images
for people to look at,
but Acton helped me become interested
in the problem of getting machines
to accept images and try to "look"
at them and understand them.
-
http://www.deja.com/group/sci.astro.ccd-imaging
to try to combine my interests in
machine vision
machine_vision.html
and
astronomy
astronomy.html
.
-
http://www.deja.com/group/comp.soft-sys.matlab
I did all my machine vision software
../program/image_processing/
, strangely enough, in Matlab.
-
http://www.deja.com/group/comp.compression
Although image compression
is one of the more popular areas of machine vision,
I've been interested in all kinds of compression
for many years.
-
http://www.deja.com/group/news.answers
I find it fascinating to read summaries
of things that fascinate humans.
-
http://www.deja.com/group/comp.robotics.misc
For a long time I've wanted to build a robot
robot_links.html
.
-
http://www.deja.com/group/comp.arch.hobbyist
In the last few years
I've become more interested
in computer architecture
computer_architecture.html
.
I'm currently learning ARM assembly language,
and I think it's the coolest one I know.
I think that Chuck Moore's MISC
is the cleverest I've seen, though.
I subscribed to the f-CPU mailing list
get_online.html#mailing_list
of people trying to develop a
"free" (and hopefully better)
architecture.
-
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=comp.arch.embedded
/* was
http://www.deja.com/group/comp.arch.embedded
*/
In particular,
I'm interested in computer architectures
that are designed to be "embedded"
(which covers both robots (see above)
and
wearable electronics
wearable_electronic.html
),
as opposed to sitting on a desktop
plugged in all the time.
Desktop machines have basically unlimited
power available;
embedded machines generally have limited power,
which makes a subtle shift in the
"mass energy speed" tradeoffs
making things much more challenging.
-
http://www.deja.com/group/comp.arch.fpga
FPGAs are one of the cleverest ideas in electronics.
Rather than manually wire up lots of discrete components,
or design a gate-array with it's long lag
between design and having the chip in hand
and high NRE costs
(or full-custom with even longer lag
before first silicon and even higher NRE,
albeit the only way to get the
highest possible performance
per uW and mm^2),
one can plug in a FPGA
and make it simulate practically
any possible digital circuit
(some of them are even infringing
on traditionally analog circuits).
If you mess up your design, no biggie,
most FPGAs can be re-programmed in circuit
in seconds.
The original concept was that
this would be great for prototyping circuits,
and once the prototype went through
enough iterations of
adding features and removing bugs and testing,
one would move the design to gate-array.
But some people have the radical idea
of selling boxes with FPGAs in the field,
re-programming themselves whenever desired.
-
http://www.deja.com/group/sci.electronics.design
But software and digital logic
are only part of designing a robot.
Hey, I think hacking up a clever circuit is fun.
That's why I'm in electronic engineering.
-
http://groups.google.com/groups?group=sci.nanotech
/* was
http://www.deja.com/group/sci.nanotech
*/
because this is the technology that's going
to make nearly all my electronic design skills
obsolete.
Radically different
"mass energy speed" tradeoffs.
online-only zines
Newspapers on the web:
San Jose Mercury News,
The Wall Street Journal,
BusinessWeek,
WorldNetDaily,
Bangkok Post Newspaper,
New York Times,
Washington Post,
LA Times,
USA Today,
The (London) Times,
Le Monde or the
Sydney Morning Herald.
Newspaper Association of America
http://www.naa.org/hotlinks/index.asp
paper magazines on the web
[FIXME: move chain letter, hoax info to:
Other hoaxes:
periodical.html#anti_chain_letter
]
See also
#antivirus
and
#anti_chain_letter
See
get_online.html#email_boxes
for some spam-resistant mail boxes and email forwarding services.
-
[news]
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SpamProof
-
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Abuse/Spam/Preventing/
[FIXME: do I really need to maintain this section,
or can I just give all this info to the maintainer of this web page ?]
-
Consumer Reports
has a spam article in
2003
(no link ?)
and
2002-07
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/detailv2.jsp?WebLogicSession=Pwoqi8g21c1EFM4bH2X4H6WSyGzDq5l2ZIZelyTPYcerba8qvNVc|-7004017291659203091/169937909/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1|5041283250080563033/169937910/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1&CONTENT%3C%3Ecnt_id=156997&FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=18151&bmUID=1057630859993
.
-
http://privacy.net/email/
-
"Habeas Sues Haiku Abusers"
http://www.habeas.com/companyPressPR.html#fivesuits
-
Spam Assassin
http://SpamAssassin.org/tag/
is used by David Cary and many other people on rdrop.com
(see
http://rdrop.com/docs/nospam.html
)
.
There's a Wiki dedicated to SpamAssassin at
http://www.exit0.us/
.
~/.spamassassin/user_prefs
-
"What you should do when you receive SPAM"
http://denbeste.nu/essays/spam.shtml
-
Tagged Message Delivery Agent
http://www.tmda.net/
You maintain a "whitelist" of trusted contacts which are allowed directly into your mailbox.
Messages from unknown senders are held in a pending queue until they respond to a one-time confirmation request sent by TMDA.
Once they respond to the confirmation, their original message is deemed legitimate and is delivered to you.
TMDA then adds their address to your whitelist so they won't have to confirm future messages.
-
"JamSpam: It just might save the Internet:
You asked David Berlind to organize an industry-wide anti-spam consortium, and now
it looks like you're going to get it. Can the SMTP network be saved?"
by David Berlind, Enterprise
http://msn.zdnet.com/zdfeeds/msncobrand/reviews/0,13828,2909482,00.html
[link broken]
-
???
Microsoft, New York launch spam lawsuits
ZDNet.com -
Microsoft and New York's attorney general took aim at spam Thursday with a series of lawsuits. In
conjunction with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer's office, the software giant filed
several lawsuits against a New York-based spamming ring ...
-
http://spam.abuse.net/spam/bits/makeadifference.shtml
claims that
- Spam that is fraudulent - offering products that don't work or don't
exist, pyramid schemes and so on - can be sent to the US Federal Trade
Commission at uce@ftc.gov.
- Spam that promotes stocks can be sent to the US Securities and Exchange
Commission at enforcement@sec.gov.
-
http://wso.williams.edu/~eudora/spam-resources.html
links to "Spam Hater" and a few other anti-spam tips.
Part of
Pete Beim's [Unofficial] Eudora FAQs & Links
http://wso.williams.edu/~eudora/
|
http://wso.williams.edu:8000/~eudora/
[FIXME: software_dav_uses]
-
http://www.postini.com/
claims to be able to block spam and email viruses.
-
http://www.legis.state.ia.us/IACODE/2001SUPPLEMENT/714E/1.html
Iowa anti-spam law
-
Declude JunkMail ... anti-spam product
http://www.declude.com/
-
ANTI-SPAM Resources
http://joe.mehaffey.com/antispam.htm
Why handle my own spam instead of just using a fake email reply to address?
...
2) You will CAUSE EXTRA WORK FOR OTHERS who must sift through your clever email address simply to reply to you.
...
First, use the built in filters in your browser.
...
report particularly obnoxious spammers by:
...
http://spamcop.net
...
-
http://www.spamfaq.net/
-
http://spam.abuse.net/spam/
-
``Uncle spam wants you to join the battle''
article by Stefanie Olsen 2002-02-05
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1106-829433.html
[FIXME: read]
-
CAUCE, The Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email
http://www.cauce.org/
-
Anti-UBE/UCE ("E-mail spam") page
http://www.stassen.com/chris/anti-spam/
has some tips for sysadmins on how to set up spam blockers / spammer poison.
-
SpamCon Foundation
http://www.spamcon.org/
is anti-spam.
-
A Genealogy War Against Spam !
http://incolor.inebraska.com/rgcox/spaminfo.htm
-
http://anti-spam.outblaze.com/
has a dozen good anti-spam links
-
http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/agsf/training/
anti-spam tools.
If you're a sysadmin for a News server, check out Clean Feed
http://thingy.apana.org.au/~fun/agsf/tools/
-
alt.spam FAQ
"Figuring out fake E-Mail & Posts"
http://digital.net/~gandalf/spamfaq.html
"describes how to find out where a fake post or e-mail originated from."
by Ken Hollis
-
Spam-related humor
http://www.rahul.net/falk/index.html#links
-
Responding to Unsolicited Commercial Email (UCE, "email spam")
http://www.panix.com/e-spam.html
and more at
http://kryten.eng.monash.edu.au/gspam.html
-
``Wpoison Sets Trap for Spam Weasel'' article by James Glave
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,8852,00.html
wpoison, a simple CGI script designed to trap and clog up the bots
that traverse the Net gathering email addresses.
... spambots ...
WpoisonTM Web Poisoning Tool
http://www.monkeys.com/wpoison/
a technological solution to the problem of spam.
E-Scrub reccommends that you download your own completely free copy of wpoison.
/* was
http://www.e-scrub.com/wpoison/
*/
-
``Sugarplum is an automated spam-poisoner.
Its purpose is to feed realistic and enticing, but
totally useless or hazardous data to wandering address harvesters
...
Sugarplum is free software, distributed under terms of the GPL.''
http://www.devin.com/sugarplum/
(example program running here)
-
http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Communications_and_Networking/Email/Spam/Bot_Bait/
lists quite a few poison tools similar to Wpoison,
and a long list of sites that have those programs running.
-
http://www.geocities.com/spamresources/spambots.htm#poison
lists quite a few poison tools similar to Wpoison,
and a long list of sites that have those programs running.
Also a list of address munging tips.
-
http://www.geocities.com/spamresources/spambots.htm#poison-static
Static undeliverable addresses:
Fixed lists of email addresses which won't deliver.
-
FAQ: How do spammers get people's email addresses ?
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/net-abuse-faq/harvest/
refers to
WD Baseley's Address Munging FAQ
http://members.aol.com/emailfaq/mungfaq.html
-
http://fantomaster.com/famshield0.html
and several other sites
suggest expanding email addresses
(and the mailto: in front of them) on web pages using the
``Unicode'' (actually SGML character references) expansions.
They focus on the decimal version
( a = a = a ) but DAV prefers the hex version ( a = a = a )
whenever ``character entity references'' are unavailable.
see
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/charset.html
for details.
In particular,
( @ = @ = @ = @ = @ ).
-
http://www.internet-tips.net/Email/SPAM_email_on_website.htm
lists a few more ways of munging email addresses, and recommends
``NEVER, ever put your email address directly in a mailto tag anywhere on the internet.''
-
Protect Your Webserver From Spam Harvesters
http://www.sendfakemail.com/fakemail/antispam.html
-
Hivelogic Email Address Encoder
http://www.hivelogic.com/safeaddress/
converts your email address to
``JavaScript ... will be rendered correctly by your browser,
but will be nearly-indecipherable by most email harvesting robots.''
-
http://www.whitis.com/no_spam.htm
useful information on
UCE - Unsolicited Commercial Email
and
Pyramid Schemes, Ponzi Schemes, and Other Frauds.
-
http://www.rfc-ignorant.org/
"rfc-ignorant.org is the clearinghouse for sites who think that the rules of the internet don't apply to them."
Used by some anti-spam products such as
http://spamassassin.org/tag/
.
[FIXME: read ?]
anti-hoax and anti-chain-letter resources
hoaxes, urban legends, misleading chain letters, email scams ...
and similar annoyances.
see also
christlib.html#urban_legend
for urban legends such as ``pi in the Bible''.
see
link_farm.html#antivirus
for antivirus tools.
see
link_farm.html#bad_things
for anti-spam information.
-
"Though frequently forwarded with good intentions, e-mail chain letters spread lies and half-truths"
http://breakthechain.org/
-
the Straight Dope
http://StraightDope.com/
"Fighting Ignorance since 1973 (it's taking longer than we thought)"
-
http://TruthOrFiction.com/
good reference on email chain letters --
is it too good to be true ?
Once in a long while, it *is* true --
this site researches and documents both kinds.
-
official chain letter info:
http://www.usps.gov/websites/depart/inspect/chainlet.htm
-
"Hoaxes & Hypes"
by Sarah Gordon, Richard Ford, and Joe Wells
http://www.research.ibm.com/antivirus/SciPapers/Gordon/HH.html
...
hoaxes ... have certain characteristics ...
Using these characteristics, it is possible to create a set of rules
which will help to distinguish fabrication from fact.
Similarly, virus hype, ...
portrays real but insignificant viruses as doomsday threats.
We show how such hype is almost always wrong.
Finally, we discuss corporate policies that have been proven to minimize the disruption of hoaxes and hype, and
...
information resources
to which they can turn as new hoaxes and hype come to light.
...
-
"Feds want Internet fraud complaints:
FBI, FTC and NW3C want notification of e-mail and Web site scams."
article by Rick Lee, 2003-08-06
http://ydr.com/story/technology/12067/
The Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC)
http://ifccfbi.gov/
(this is for fraud, such as the Nigerian 419 fraud, not scam).
-
chain letter from Betelgeuse
http://monster-island.org/tinashumor/humor/starchain.html
(humor)
-
Better Business Bureau
http://www.bbb.org/
and
http://www.bbbonline.org/
certifies Web businesses that meet its standards.
-
the Competition Bureau
http://competition.ic.gc.ca/
(I think this is the Canadian counterpart to the Better Business Bureau)
-
National Fraud Information Center, run by the National Consumers League
http://fraud.org/
-
A pyramid scheme is the name for a scam that coerces people to
both contribute money and
help promote the program.
http://www.cockeyed.com/ebay/scam/laptop_pyramids.html
good explaination.
-
http://www.greatwest.ca/ffwd/Issues/2000/0413/city.htm
...
Pyramid selling is a multi-level marketing plan that incorporates various deceptive marketing practices, which makes it a criminal offense
...
Women Helping Women (WHW) is the name of the latest scheme making its way across the country.
...
But how many recruits are told when they join WHW that
6.7 per cent of those who join will get a 700 per cent return on their investment
($35,000 on a $5,000 investment)
as long as 93.3 per cent get nothing at all?
...
punishable under the Criminal Code of Canada ...
...
allow the court to impose a fine of up to $200,000,
a prison term of up to one year, or both.
...
-
Scam o Rama, or The Lads from Lagos
http://www.scamorama.com/
makes fun of the classic scam emails from Nigeria ...
-
The Museum of Hoaxes
by Alex Boese
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/
is a good collection of historical hoaxes
(and a few historical legends that no one knows whether they are true or not)
-
archive of urban legends from alt.folklore.urban (AFU)
http://urbanlegends.com/
'Class Project' Chain Letters
http://urbanlegends.about.com/culture/urbanlegends/library/weekly/aa102099.htm
Not a good idea.
-
http://www.scambusters.org/legends.html
-
Sniggle.net: the Culture Jammer's Encyclopedia
http://www.sniggle.net/index.php
lists some of the biggest hoaxes of all time, for example:
TOKYO, May 28, 1947 (UPI)
``An Army radio station described for a gag today a 'battle'
between American soldiers and a 'twenty-foot sea monster' in the streets of Tokyo.
The description was so vivid
that Gen. Douglas MacArthur was reported to have been fooled,
as well as thousands of Americans and Britons.
Includes a search tool.
-
http://www.vmyths.com/
``computer virus myths, hoaxes, urban legends, hysteria, and
the implications if you believe in them.
You can also search a list of computer virus hoaxes & virus hysteria''
-
http://www.memecentral.com/antidote.htm
links to several of the above resources.
-
Urban Legends Reference Pages
http://www.snopes2.com/
...
http://snopes.simplenet.com/
-
http://hoaxbusters.ciac.org/
anti-hoax
[urban legends]
-
http://www.virtualsalt.com/warning.htm
ant-hoax; anti-chain letters
[links to urban legends]
Linux news
[FIXME: there are many others ... TV]
-
http://www.heise.de/
???
(Deutsch)
-
http://www.sciencefriday.com/
???
-
http://www.advogato.org/
"Everyone is welcome to read, but Advogato limits posting to members of the free software development community."
???
-
http://helix.nature.com/nsu/
-
http://www.dailyegyptian.com/
???
-
http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/
???
-
http://www.beopen.com/
Open Source News
-
http://www.doxpara.com/
[FIXME: tell him exactly why his so-called "tooltips" are misguided.]
-
http://www.robotwisdom.com/
"divided four ways between
James Joyce,
artificial intelligence,
internet culture/ hypertext design, and
miscellaneous topics."
???
-
http://www.girlhacker.com/log.html
???
(I learned something I didn't know about the
L. Frank Baum Oz books
).
-
"First Monday is one of the first peer-reviewed journals on the Internet,
solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996 ..."
http://firstmonday.dk/
Steve Mann has written a couple of articles here.
-
???
http://www.exosci.com/main/news/showcomment/?newsid=1448&commentid=6313
apparently a science news site that lets everyone
comment on the stories, slashdot-style.
-
http://www.tidbits.com/
has lots of Macintosh news.
Reports on the MacHax.
-
MacTech magazine
http://www.MacTech.com/
-
_Computer Reseller News_
http://www.crn.com/
-
http://www.upside.com/
???
-
Apple iReview
http://ireview.mac.com/WebObjects/iReview.woa/
(is this the correct URI ?)
-
``Your Daily Dose of Science News''
http://www.scienceagogo.com/
-
http://everyschool.org/harvey/
-
Technology Computer Aided Design (TCAD)
http://www.ieee.org/journal/tcad/
an electronic journal
-
CMP Media
http://www.cmp.com/
hosts *many* electronics-industry print magazines
-
http://www.techweb.com/
???
search tool ?
-
Crossroads
http://www.acm.org/crossroads/
the student magazine of the Association for Computing Machinery.
(![FIXME])
-
The Register
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
information technology news
EE Times Online's Smart Technologies Special Interest Group.
http://www.eet.com/smart
-
EE Times Online
http://www.eet.com/
electrical engineering news
-
http://www.e-insite.net/ednmag/
-
Mocking Web Commentary
with Ian Shoales
http://www.byte.com/humor/
-
Programmer to Programmer(TM)
http://p2p.wrox.com/
is a forum for programmers (in Java, C++, JavaScript, XML, Visual Basic, SQL, and other computer languages)
to discuss stuff, in English, Deutsch, Spanish, French, and other natural languages.
-
Planet EE
http://www.PlanetEE.com/
???
_Integrated System Design_ magazine
http://www.isdmag.com/
-
_Smart Computing ... in plain English_
http://www.smartcomputing.com/
-
Society of Amateur Scientists
http://www.sas.org/
-
_Thinking Magazine:
The voice of the
Nerd Liberation Movement_
http://www.perkel.com/think/
smart, and proud of it.
-
http://www.dailyhowler.com/
[spin ?]
???
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http://www.fair.org/
[counter-spin ?]
-
Spinsanity - Countering rhetoric with reason
http://www.spinsanity.org/
``Spinsanity exposes and analyzes the increasingly pervasive use of manipulative and subrational rhetoric in American politics.''
-
WebMathNews
http://www.mathnews.net/
???
-
Lots of links:
Writings on free software,
free software news, etc.
http://www.wmin.ac.uk/~seamang/freesoftware.html
[FIXME: give him more links to free books]
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[Usenet news]
http://groups.google.com/
| mirror
http://www.google.com/grphp
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http://cafe.utne.com/
``A place in cyberspace where ideas and community intersect''
[FIXME: should I seperate out places like cafe Utne and Slashdot
that have interactive forums,
vs. those that do not ?]
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http://www.nomorefakenews.com/
by Jon Rappoport.
A little bit paranoid.
But I like what he says about Buckminster Fuller.
-
Access Research Network
http://www.arn.org/
???
-
http://www.ieee.org/whats-new
-
http://www.bratgrrl.com/
Carla Schroder writes good stuff.
pro-Linux.
Likes the Alps printer.
-
http://www.xanga.com/
???
-
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/LOCAL/fork-books.html#online
recommends some online periodicals.
-
recommended reading list -- periodicals
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/LOCAL/faq-fork.html#read
-
Prospect magazine
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/
???
-
Cool Tool of the Day -- Shareware, Freeware, Downloads
http://www.cooltool.com/
-
Fact Squad
http://www.factsquad.org/
???
``information regarding technology and its effects on society,
dedicated to cutting through the self-serving hype, spin,
misinformation, and
propaganda
...
regarding technological issues.''
-
Ray Kurzweil : Accelerating Intelligence
http://www.kurzweilai.net/index.html?flash=1
The Latest Accelerating-Intelligence News
http://kurzweilai.net/
[FIXME: read. looks very cool. Spiritual Machines, the singularity, nanotech,
post-humans, etc.]
-
http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~jruderma/s/
???
-
[meta-news]
[future history]
The 2002 Hype Cycle of Emerging Technologies
from the Gartner Group
http://www.gartner.com/
lists several new technologies and estimates how long before they actually become usable.
-
[meta-news]
FUD
-
Dr. Dobb's Journal
___
-
Unix Review
__
-
The Idaho Statesman
http://www.idahostatesman.com/
-
http://nerdworld.com/
-
the FoRK "required reading" list
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/local/faq-fork.html#readthese
has a list of recommended news sources ...
[pages like this one]
-
news:comp.os.linux
-
http://www.tinyminds.org/
-
Salon's Free Software Project
http://www.salon.com/tech/fsp/
``Read Andrew Leonard's book-in-progress, and post your comments.''
-
http://www.acm.org/ubiquity/
-
http://www.infoanarchy.org/
has a Wiki ...
The one cause to which you can justify a donation. none / 0 (#5)
by Anonymous Hero on Wed Jan 8th, 2003 at 02:05:18 AM GMT
Suppose that given two causes, you can always tell which one is more worthy of a donation.
Suppose that if one cause is more worthy of a donation than another,
then you cannot justify donating to the lesser cause.
Given this, there is only one cause, above all others, to which all donations must go.
Other causes must wait for that one problem to be solved before anyone can donate to them
without feeling guilty about not donating to the one ultimately worthy cause.
I think I'd rather give my money to dogs than believe that.
This reminds me somehow of
whatsbetter.com
, which lists "AIDS" as worse than "children with cancer," which is worse than "terrorism."
--
http://www.infoanarchy.org/story/2003/1/4/05747/20331
-
http://www.ddj.com/
-
http://www.ddjembedded.com/
-
http://www.siliconstrategies.com/
-
Science Site Of The Day
http://www.sciencesiteoftheday.com/
-
Print Media Explained - (source unknown)
-
1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.
-
2. The New York Times is read by people who think they run the country.
-
3. The Washington Post is read by people who think they ought to run the country.
-
4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don't understand the Washington Post.
-
5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn't mind running the country, if they could spare the time.
-
6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country.
-
7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren't too sure who's running the country.
-
8. The New York Post is read by people who don't care who's running the country, as long as they do something scandalous.
-
9. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren't sure there is a country, or that anyone is running it.
-
10. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country.
--
http://users.characterlink.net/The-Cookie-Jar/humor.html
-
http://cfaith.com/
???
-
http://www.technologyreview.com/
-
"BBspot - Satire for Smart People"
http://bbspot.com/
-
http://www.ibelieve.com/
-
http://www.buzzle.com/
???
-
"Evangelical Times ... a monthly newspaper ...
http://www.evangelical-times.org/
-
mechanical engineering magazine
http://memagazine.org/
-
http://radio.weblogs.com/0110772/2003/05/17.html#a968
???
-
Scientific American magazine
http://www.sciam.com/
-
http://www.msn.com/
http://windowsmedia.com/radiotuner/MyRadio.asp
http://windowsmedia.com/mg/home.asp?
-
http://www.eng-tips.com/gviewthread.cfm/lev2/11/lev3/47/pid/240/qid/13104
[ engineering design forum ?]
-
TidBITS
http://king.tidbits.com/
"All the News that Fits in 30K"
Macintosh and PalmPilot.
-
The Embedded Muse is an occasional newsletter sent via email by Jack Ganssle.
http://www.coe.montana.edu/ee/cady/ee361/emuse.htm
includes
...
Floating Point Approximations
...
Guidelines For the Use of The C Language in Vehicle Based Software
...
"Evans' Law":
Just because you *can* do something
does not mean you *should*!
[FIXME: creed]
...
Metastability
...
The Trouble with Open Source
...
More Dumb Mistakes
...
the World's Last C Bug
...
-
http://hackerheaven.org/
???
-
http://tuxedo.org/
???
-
http://www.thisistrue.com/
???
-
ISN news: The Zocalo today
http://www.isnnews.net/
-
http://BetterHumans.com/News/
-
Pedantry Today
http://www.weetwo.org/john/pedantry/pedantry.html
???
lists several uncommon words (and their definitions) every day
-
http://www.linuxplanet.com
-
http://www.texteditors.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RecentChanges
-
http://macslash.org/
-
"TheMacMind - inside teenage macheads"
http://themacmind.com/
-
Metropolis Magazine
http://.metropolismag.com/
visual design ... architecture ... macintosh ...
-
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
http://faz.net/
-
HoustonChronicle.com
http://chron.com/
-
http://www.phxnews.com/
news from Phoenix AZ.
-
Embedded Star - Resources for Embedded Systems and Software Development
http://equator.com/
???
-
Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy
http://badastronomy.com/
-
SpaceRef - Space News As It Happens
http://spaceref.com/
-
"Embedded software development solutions: Mentor Graphics Embedded Software Division"
http://mentor.com/embedded/
???
-
Bob and Tommie Jean Seitz: HIQ news
http://megafoundation.org/UltraHIQ/HIQNews/
???
seems to have a discussion board at
http://megacenter.org/MegaBoard/
???
-
"Gateway to the best scientific research news sources"
http://scicentral.com/
-
http://eurekalert.org/
-
Ziana Astralos
http://www.anzwers.org/free/tech/websites-bytopic-nanotec.html
...
http://www.anzwers.org/free/tech/websites-all-2.html
???
-
http://foresight.org/
[future ?]
-
Kim Heise: "Tomorrow's News Today"
http://hitechbits.com/
PalmOS, Linux, hard drives, etc.
-
http://cfxweb.net/civax/
...
demo and game development
http://cfxweb.net/
???
-
game development news and resources
http://flipcode.com/
code of the day;
screen shot of the day;
[FIXME: video_game.html]
-
http://unusualresearch.com/
???
-
http://cmpnet.com/
now publishes a magazine called
Diagnostic Imaging
http://diagnosticimaging.com/
.
-
News of the Weird
http://www.newsoftheweird.com/
by Chuck Shepherd
-
http://geekpress.com/
???
-
St. Catharines Standard
http://www.StCatharinesStandard.ca/
-
http://techextreme.com/
-
http://usinfo.state.gov/
???
-
"ComputerUser.com: technology trends and tools"
http://ComputerUser.com/
-
Steven C. Den Beste: USS Clueless
http://denbeste.nu/
engineering and history
-
CD-Recordable discs unreadable in less than two years
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news/7751
!!!
-
http://www.gospelcom.net/
has a couple of daily cartoons.
-
Encyclopedia Astronautica
http://astronautix.com/
-
"RedNova - Space, Science, Health, and Technology News and Information"
http://rednova.com/
-
http://del.icio.us/
???
-
"TCS: Tech Central Station - Where Free Markets Meet Technology"
http://techcentralstation.com/
???
-
http://theTolkienWiki.org/wiki.cgi?RecentChanges
-
"Fair trade, political consumerism and moral purchasing trends are coming together to create what we call moral purchasing power"
http://consumerium.org/
??? wiki ??? free software
...
-
http://geek.com/
-
http://www.nandotimes.com/
lists the web sites of a bunch of newspapers in AL, SC, CA, and a few other states.
-
http://kuro5hin.org/
-
the MozillaZine Knowledge Base
http://kb.mozillazine.org/
(the Mozilla wiki)
-
EXN.ca | Discovery Channel Canada's Web site
http://exn.ca/
-
http://gizmo.com.au/
gizmos: wearable computers,
robots,
-
The Oklahoman (daily newspaper): NewsOK.com
http://oklahoman.net/
-
http://www.newscientist.com/
The New Scientist guide to the Quantum World
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/quantum/genious.html
Cloning: A Special Report
http://www.newscientist.com/nsplus/insight/clone/clone.html
lots of info on the technical details, politics, and ethics of cloning.
Roy Frieden ...
has an international reputation in the more practical field
of optical image enhancement.
...
Fisher information
...
The similarity between the Cramer-Rao inequality and the
uncertainty principle started Frieden wondering whether
information--and Fisher information in particular--had a much deeper
role in physics.
..
Take turbulence, the roiling
motion of fast-moving fluids whose understanding Einstein himself
regarded as the biggest challenge to classical physics. In 1996, John
Cocke at the University of Arizona showed that using Frieden's
approach on the question of what is the flow of mass at a particular
time and place leads to a law governing the size of density
fluctuations in turbulent fluids. This law makes sense of otherwise
baffling results from studies of fluid behaviour.
...
Physics from Fisher Information by Roy Frieden, Cambridge
University Press
...
--
Robert Matthews
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990130/iisthelaw.html
-
http://RaptureReady.com/
includes "End Time News Bites"
and the "Rapture Index: The prophetic speedometer of end-time activity"
... and has some interesting timelines.
-
http://thinkchristian.net/
This page
started 1999-11-13
(split off from search_tools)
and has
backlinks
David Cary feedback.html
d.cary@ieee.org.
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