periodical

Here are some of the periodicals I find most interesting.

updated 2003-12-18

• news
• Anti-Spam
• anti-hoax and anti-chain-letter resources
• Anti-Virus sites
• linux news
• television and radio stations online
• paper magazines
• unsorted

David also maintains related files:

• future_history.html for predictions of what the news will say.
• eye_candy.html#comics has my favorite daily comics

constantly-changing news sources

• 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

• Google Groups http://groups.google.com/ /* was Deja News http://www.deja.com/ */ /* was http://www.dejanews.com/ */ (Usenet news search tool)
• http://www.scienceguide.com/Usenet-Disscussion/Usenet.html Nice web-based way to access scientific Usenet Newsgroups and other scientific discussion groups.
• developerWorks http://www.ibm.com/developer/ has a "Open source" and other interesting sections.
• http://www.newsguy.com/ (a few free Usenet news groups; with subscription, more Usenet News Groups, a email accound, and 3 MB for your web pages)

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

• http://technocrat.net/ Webmaster: Bruce Perens. "Powered by ... Free Software (Open Source) products, exclusively."
• http://www.industrycommunity.com/ Electrical and Electronic Bulletin System - bulletin system for professionals and vendors in the electrical and electronic industry.
• Discovery channel online http://www.discovery.com/ (is this related to _Discover_ magazine ?)
• http://search.knowledgestor.com/ ???
• Wired News http://www.wired.com/news/
• PC Magazine Online http://www.zdnet.com/pcmag/
• Tech Talk Broadcasting http://www.ttalk.com/
• Hacker News Network http://www.hackernews.com/
• O'Grady's PowerPage http://ogrady.com/ tips, tricks, updates and rumors on Apple PowerBooks

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

• Linux Journal http://LinuxJournal.com/ ... seems related to the http://LinuxGazette.com/ ?
• time.com http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/
• http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/contents/international/
• http://cgi.pathfinder.com/time/digital/

  Computer Bits Online http://www.computerbits.com/

• Whole Earth: Access to Tools, Ideas, and Practices http://www.wholeearthmag.com
• Wired Digital supports both Wired News http://www.wired.com/ and Webmonkey http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/ and HotWired http://www.hotwired.com/

Anti-Spam

[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

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]

Anti-Virus sites

• anti-virus software reviews http://www.virusbtn.com/ "In fact, I wish we did not need anti-virus software. Sure - I'd be out of a job, but there are many other interesting, challenging, and fundamentally worthwhile things to work at." -- Nick FitzGerald http://www.virusbtn.com/VirusInformation/cih.html
• http://www.wildlist.org/ has a list of virus investigators to whom you could email a sample virus.
• http://www.securityfocus.com/
• Virus Research Unit http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/virus/
• http://attrition.org/ a computer security Web site ... also mirrors defaced web sites.
• "Are "Good" Computer Viruses Still a Bad Idea?" paper by Vesselin Bontchev ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/pub/virus/texts/viruses/goodvir.zip
• "anti-virus software" on Yahoo
• IBM AntiVirus
• McAfee AntiVirus
• Symantec Anti-Virus Research Center
• "Computer Viruses: Past, Present, and Future" article
• National Computer Security Association
• Anti-Virus Center
• Central Command Inc.
• Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit

linux

Linux news

• http://linuxcalendar.com/
• http://www.linuxdot.org/ news and newbie help pages.
• http://savannah.gnu.org/ free software project hosting free software development hosting site and allows you to contribute to Open Source projects.
• http://www.berlios.de/ free software project hosting free software development hosting site and allows you to contribute to Open Source projects.
• SourceForge http://sf.net/ , http://sourceforge.net/ free software project hosting free software development hosting site and allows you to contribute to Open Source projects.
• "KLDP.net is a free service to Open Source developers offering easy access to the best in CVS, mailing lists, bug tracking, message boards/forums, task management, site hosting, permanent file archival, full backups, and total web-based administration." http://kldp.net/
• Tigris.org http://www.tigris.org/ "Tigris.org is a mid-sized open source community focused on building better tools for collaborative software development." [competitor to SourceForge][FIXME: browse]
• the Giant Java Tree http://gjt.org/ "the Giant Java Tree: an open source project whose primary aim is to create a Java source tree consisting entirely of open source." [competitor to Sourceforge -- except only Java open-source code][any useful software here ?]
• Linux Today - Linux News http://linuxtoday.com/
• Linux International http://www.li.org/
• Linux.com: Linux news, information, software, documentation, and tutorials http://www.linux.com/
• Linux Magazine http://www.linux-mag.com/
• http://linuxpr.com/ linux-related press releases
• http://www.advogato.org/ ``Advogato, the free software developer's advocate.'' Lists lots of projects (but just points to them; no projects hosted on this site ?)
• the Linux Weekly News http://lwn.net/ ``the latest news from the Linux World.''
• _Free Software Magazine_ http://www.rons.net.cn/ reviewed: http://slashdot.org/articles/02/01/27/142206.shtml
• freshmeat.net http://freshmeat.net/ "announcements of newly written or updated applications. ... a software repository carrying a complete set of applications for almost any purpose one could think of." (Linux)

  freshmeat news http://news.freshmeat.net/ ???

television and radio stations online

[FIXME: there are many others ... TV]

• http://thebasement.com.au/
• FOX http://foxnews.com/
• ABC http://abcnews.go.com/
• CNN http://www.cnn.com/
• BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/ (technical details about the BBC web site http://www.apple.com/creative/collateral/ama/0101/bbc.html )

paper magazines

• Science http://www.sciencemag.org
• Nature http://www.nature.com
• New England Journal of Medicine http://www.nejm.org/
• Christian Computing Magazine http://www.ccmag.com/ /* was http://www.gospelcom.net/ccmag/ */

brainteasers

• Geometry Problem of the Week http://mathforum.org/geopow/
• weekly brain teaser http://www.eduplace.com/math/brain/

unsorted

• 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 ?] ???
• 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]
• [Usenet news] http://groups.google.com/ | mirror http://www.google.com/grphp
• 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 ?]
• 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/

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