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MyCCNet
Portal for some of my E E courses.
Send Text Messages From Rails with SMS Fu
Looks like just a simple wrapper for providers' email gateways.
You still need to figure out the provider somehow.
LETSystems
A LETSystem is a trading network supported by its own internal currency.
Hot tubbing an online community
"Email listservs often parallel in person group growth patterns and grow very fast, too fast. Sometimes this will lead to a situation where pleas to the list have no effect and the list is in danger of degrading into flames and lots of useless noise."
Personal Democracy Forum
"Technology is changing politics."
Direct Democracy (democracy international)
"Around a century ago, many countries in Europe introduced universal voting rights. Since then, the opportunities for citizens to take part in the political decision-making process have for the most part never been extended any further."
SteamPunk Magazine: Putting the Punk back into SteamPunk
"SteamPunk Magazine is a publication that is dedicated to promoting steampunk as a culture, as more than a sub-category of fiction. It is a journal of fashion, music, misapplied technology and chaos. And fiction. It just may be the most spectacular magazine to ever fight against the spectacle"
ContextFree.js
I've got an interesting idea for this.
The Isidorian Decretals
ninth century forgeries with big effects on European history.
readin' some Russell, found a reference to this. neat.
Rebel Science News
He's got the solutions to all our problems, and he's not afraid to stand up to Big Science!
Daniel's Obfuscated-V Contest
sneaky vote-tallying code
A Brief Introduction to the Seasteading Institute | Seasteading Institute
Seasteading means to create permanent dwellings on the ocean - homesteading the high seas.
Their mission:
Establish permanent, autonomous ocean communities to enable experimentation and innovation with diverse social, political, and legal systems.
Metagovernment - Government of, by, and for the people
using "a scored, versioned website as the medium for legislation and bureaucracy under the principle of open source governance"
silentpcreview.com
"Everything about Silent / Quiet Computers"
Open Library API (Open Library)
clean looking JSON API for data about books.
StartupIndex.ca
"a free, community-based index of technology startups and investors in Canada."
The Semantic Web: Scientific American
a pretty good description of the potential, but we're a long way away :(
darcs-git.py
a wrapper to provide a darcs-like UI for git
I Am Making Art
by John Baldessari.
Retire Onto a Sailboat
Huge pile of information about living on a sailboat.
Sanskrit
A Javascript rich text editor that outputs Textile instead of HTML.
Edmonton Free Library
"a book, music, and video sharing community operating in the Edmonton capital region"
Cleveland RTA Schedule
schedules for Cleveland's public transportation system.
scrapes official HTML, makes it useable. Open Source (MIT license).
professional Résumé layout with LaTeX
guide to creating a resume with LaTeX
Pvote
Tiny python UI for a voting machine.
SVN - Branching and Merging
general overview of branching in a VCS and the specifics of doing it with svn
The Little Book of Semaphores
"a free (in both senses of the word) textbook that introduces the principles of synchronization for concurrent programming."
Horde 3D
LGPL.
"a graphics engine [...] as lightweight and conceptually clean as possible. [...] particularly suitable for rendering large crowds of animated characters in next-generation quality."
Streams, Pools, and Reservoirs
"A stream is a flow of data. [...] A pool is a collection of data that is fed by one or more Streams. [...] a reservoir supports a community"
E E 340 Lab Website
Kotaka
Octane Mech
lucre
Mu's Unbelievably Long and Disjointed Ramblings About RPG Design
Material about "making a fantasy pre-industrial age MMORPG that is realistic, believable, balanced, and immersive."