links

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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!

one hundred push ups

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"

Git SVN Workflow

BRUTAL NIGHTMARE GENERATOR v666

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 :(

Quick Intro to RDF

Park Tool bicycle repair guide

Branching and merging with git

darcs-git.py

a wrapper to provide a darcs-like UI for git

XEP-xxxx: Tic-tac-toe

XEP-xxxx: Game Support

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

This is the official website for EE 340 design laboratories.

Kotaka

A new Kernel-based DGD mudlib.

Finding subdomains of a domain

Facebook FOAF Generator

Charles Stross - Accelerando

OpenGL Tetris in Haskell

Octane Mech

OpenGL Haskell based mech game; early code and some haskell notes summary

lucre

open source anonymous digital money implementation

An Intuitive Explanation of Fourier Theory

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."

E E 330 Lecture

Introduction to Power Engineering

E E 338 Lab

EE338 Lecture A2

Discrete-Time Signals and Systems

E E 380 Labs

E E 340 Lecture A2

The Keysigning Party HOWTO

"A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to sign each others keys."

Free Banking

an overview of "free banking" theory

The UniSearcher

A database of Unicode codepoints, searchable by description, definition, pronunciation (?), &c.

Panda3D

C++ 3D engine with Python bindings

Soya3D

Python 3D engine

FSF - Various Licenses and Comments about Them

An exhaustive summary of various licenses and their compatibility with the GPL.

Soundex

A phonetic fingerprinting algorithm for English.

W3C Semantic Web FAQ

An introduction to the SW and response to common misunderstandings.

Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP)

A protocol for streaming XML.

Using Python for Voice over IP

A brief overview of SIP and RTP and the feasibility of implementing them in Python.

httplint

Tags: Database schemas

Open Jabber Servers

Mec E 250 - Lec B1 Winter

feedparser's HTML whitelist

EzCrypto

Crypt

Lojban gismu

E E 231 Lab H4

E E 231 Lecture B2

Map of the Universe

DOAC Vocabulary Specification

A Guide to LaTeX

RubyForge: Bishop Bayesian Classifier

RubyForge: Classifier

An RDF vocabulary for IMDB

wiki.theory.org - Bit Torrent Specification

Phantasmal MUDlib

Useful RDF data sources

Atom Publishing Protocol Test Suite

The Violet Fairy Book

An abortion manual

Pack 440MB to 1.5MB! - Total Archiver

The Jorne Project

Learning Haskell: XUL slideshow