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Aaron Giles (aarongiles.com)I am a freelance Seattle-area programmer, musician, web developer, and graphic designer. ¶ I have at various times worked for Microsoft, Connectix, LucasArts, and have a long history of creating free software and other stuff. See my programming page for detailed work history. ¶ I am also an active musician, singing in several local groups and tinkering with the lute. See my music page for more details on what I’m up to musically.
Art of Memory (artofmemory.com)The Art of Memory Wiki is a free, online encyclopedia of memory techniques, mental calculation, and related brain training information.
articles written by Joel Hooks (joelhooks.com)This is my personal site where I drop notes and articles about things that I am interested in. Generally speaking this journal will capture thoughts I have about building bootstrapped business, raising kids, learning, teaching, and my endless obsession with media and gear.
Canon (English Version) by Normal McLaren, Grant Munro (nfb.ca)Norman McLaren and Grant Munro use three different animation techniques to provide visual representations of canons in a film designed to teach viewers about this ancient musical form. The soundtrack combines both recorded classical music and sounds produced by a synthesizer.
Consortium of Lichen HerbariaThe Consortium serves as gateway to biodiversity data of lichenized fungi. It unites records not only from lichen herbaria in North America, but also from herbaria in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Oceania, as well as personal collections and research observations.
EndBASIC (endbasic.dev)EndBASIC is a modern take at implementing an integrated environment that offers instant gratification to the user/learner/programmer. The environment and the language are intentionally modeled after the experience that computers offered back in the 1980s
Fermat’s Library Journal Club (fermatslibrary.com)Fermat’s Library is a platform for illuminating academic papers. Every week we send you a new paper annotated by the community in the fields of Mathematics, Physics, Economics, Computer Science and Biology.
Floor796 (floor796.com)Floor796 is an ever-expanding animation scene showing the life of the 796th floor of the huge space station! The goal of the project is to create as huge animation as possible, with many references to movies, games, anime and memes.
Frode Weierud’s CryptoCellar | The Enigma Collection (cryptocellar.org)The Enigma Collection is meant to be a Web portal for information about the German cipher machine Enigma in all it variations. In the beginning this Web page should be seen as a kind of note board where I post information when my time and energy allows me to do so. Later on, the page hopefully will take on a more definitive form and perhaps it will even be more pleasing to the eye. For the time being the most important issue is to have a place where I can publish my Enigma notes. At the moment I am working on a detailed history of the Enigma and when this will be published, hopefully next year, I plan to publish here many of my research notes and other documents.
History of Maplewood (maplewoodmn.gov)The written history of Maplewood begins about 165 years ago when European and French-Canadian settlers began farming in this area. Prior to this time, the land was inhabited by the Dakota Indians with occasional visits by French and English fur traders and explorers. The landscape was a mix of scrub oak and prairie with many wetlands and lakes.
Homemade liquid nitrogen generator using Joule Thomson Throttling (homemadeliquidnitrogen.com)I determined that there was no good tutorial on how the average person can liquefy nitrogen or air. A few references to cryocoolers, which use an internal helium Stirling engine to create a cold head exist, and I even saw one person use this as a means to liquefy nitrogen, allowing the gas to condenses as it passes over the head. This method is cheating because it relies on a self-contained refrigeration unit. I wanted to do this using regenerative cooling just like Carl Linde back in 1895.
Ian Ridpath’s Star Tales (ianridpath.com)Star Tales grew out of my skywatching guides for amateur astronomers. As I came to describe each constellation, I found myself wondering about its origin and the way in which ancient people had personified it in mythology. Astronomy books did not contain satisfactory answers. They either gave no mythology at all, or they recounted stories that, I later discovered, were not true to the Greek and Roman originals. I decided to write my own book on the mythology of the constellations. The result was published in 1988. A revised and expanded edition appeared in 2018 by when it had grown into a comprehensive biography of the constellations from Ptolemaic times to the present: not just the 88 officially recognized figures which are described in Chapter Three, but also two dozen others that fell by the wayside, featured in Chapter Four. This web version contains additional information not found in the books, most notably details on how Chinese astronomers visualized the stars, a subject still poorly understood in the west. Further updates and improvements to these pages are made from time to time.
Infinite Mac (infinitemac.org)Infinite Mac is a collection of classic Macintosh system releases and software, all easily accessible from the comfort of a (modern) web browser.
John Horgan (The Science Writer) (johnhorgan.org)Everything on this site is free, including Cross-Check and the books My Quantum Experiment and Mind-Body Problems. If you want to donate to a worthy cause, check out WORLDBEYONDWAR.ORG.
Les Leftovers (leslefts.blogspot.com)Jim Chevallier is a food historian with a checkered past and eclectic interests. His most recent book is “Feasting with the Franks; the First French Medieval Food’; this follows a history of French bread - “Before the Baguette: The History of French Bread” - and a small work on the women who delivered bread in Paris and other cities for over a century: “They Came Bearing Bread; the Hard Lives of the Porteuses de Pain'.
Libera Chat (libera.chat)Providing a community platform for free and open-source software and peer directed projects. Connect by pointing your IRC client to irc.libera.chat:6697 (TLS)
Mark Twain Project Online (marktwinproject.org)Mark Twain Project Online applies innovative technology to more than four decades’ worth of archival research by expert editors at the Mark Twain Project. It offers unfettered, intuitive access to reliable texts, accurate and exhaustive notes, and the most recently discovered letters and documents.
One Minute Park (oneminutepark.tv)One Minute Park allows you to visit parks from around the world for one minute each. These are just one minute videos, not webcams. Eventually the project will fill in all the minutes (1440) in a day. You can create your own One Minute Park to help achieve this goal.
pursuitofwonder.comWonder is a feeling of curiosity and appreciation inspired by something beautiful, unfamiliar, or inexplicable. We produce content in hopes of inciting that feeling.
RadioSide Internet Radio Receiver (radioside.com)As a shortwave listener and designer, I decided to designmy own radio, combining the way of a physical radio with the vast amount of internet radio stations for use on my spare devices. While using it I realized other people will likely enjoy it as well.
Spacewar! (masswerk.at)This is a virtual DEC PDP-1 (emulated in HTML5/JavaScript) running the original code of “Spacewar!”, the earliest known digital video game. If available, use gamepads or joysticks for authentic gameplay — the game was originally played using custom “control boxes”.
subrealic.net - website of Matthias Fritsch (technoviking.tv)Matthias Fritsch lives and works in Berlin. ¶ He studied Media Art at the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (HfG) in Germany and Film, Fine Art and Curating at Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS), New York State, USA. Has made several short and long movies, and media-based installations. He strongly believes in the freedom and accessibility of art, culture and ideas. He is best known as the creator of one of the first internet video memes “Technoviking”. His documentary “The Story of Technoviking” has been viewed more than a million times and has found its way into numerous media studies courses at international universities.
The Brouhaha Over Consciousness and “Pseudoscience” (johnhorgan.org)Something like that just happened in the field of consciousness studies, as mind-brain researchers denounced integrated information theory as “pseudoscience.” The incident–covered here, here and here–is worth dwelling on, because pseudoscience extends far beyond consciousness research.
The Illusions Index (illusionsindex.org)The Illusions Index is a fully searchable, interactive curated collection of illusions. The illusions are categorised into different types, allowing you to search for, and compare, illusions that fall under one or more type. Staff and students at the Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience have researched each illusion to provide detailed information about what it teaches us about the philosophy and psychology of perception.
The Infinite Conversation (infiniteconversation.com)As an AI optimist, I remain hopeful that we will be able to regulate ourselves, and that we will take experiments such as the Infinite Conversation for what they are: a playful way to help us imagine what our favorite people would do, if we had unlimited access to their minds. Art and Philosophy, here exemplified by Bavarian director Werner Herzog and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, can guide us while navigating these treacherous waters.
The Simulation Argument (simulation-argument.com)Here you can peruse the debate that followed the paper presenting the simulation argument. The original paper is here, as are popular synopses, scholarly papers commenting or expanding on or critiquing the first paper, and some replies by the author. The simulation argument continues to attract a great deal of attention. I apologize for not usually being able to respond to individual inquiries. I hope you might find what you’re looking for on this page.
Timeline of the far future (Wikipedia)While the future cannot be predicted with certainty, present understanding in various scientific fields allows for the prediction of some far-future events, if only in the broadest outline. These fields include astrophysics, which studies how planets and stars form, interact, and die; particle physics, which has revealed how matter behaves at the smallest scales; evolutionary biology, which studies how life evolves over time; plate tectonics, which shows how continents shift over millennia; and sociology, which examines how human societies and cultures evolve.
tixy - creative code golfing (tixy.land)Control the size and color of a 16x16 dot matrix with a single JavaScript function. The input is limited to 32 characters – but no limits to your creativity!
U.S. Government Bookstore (pueblo.gpo.gov)This website is operated by the U.S. Government Publishing Office Pueblo Distribution Center (US GPO PDC) to support free federal publication distribution activities.
Watabou’s Procgen Arcana (watabou.github.io)Watabou’s Procgen Arcana is a collection of free map generators for tabletop role-playing games and worldbuilding. Currently, it consists of six generators, all of them are in active development.
Wild Horse Recreation Access Permit (pse.com)Wild Horse is currently CLOSED for public access and recreation during the winter (December – March). Registration for non-hunting recreation permits for the 2024 season (April – November) will be available in March 2024.
Willingham Sends Fables Into the Public Domain (billwillingham.substack.com)As of now, 15 September 2023, the comic book property called Fables, including all related Fables spin-offs and characters, is now in the public domain. What was once wholly owned by Bill Willingham is now owned by everyone, for all time. It’s done, and as most experts will tell you, once done it cannot be undone. Take-backs are neither contemplated nor possible.
WordStar: A Writer’s Word Processor (sfwriter.com)Many science-fiction writers — including myself, Roger MacBride Allen, Gerald Brandt, Jeffrey A. Carver, Arthur C. Clarke, David Gerrold, Terence M. Green, James Gunn, Matthew Hughes, Donald Kingsbury, Eric Kotani, Paul Levinson, George R. R. Martin, Vonda McIntyre, Kit Reed, Jennifer Roberson, and Edo van Belkom — continue to use WordStar for DOS as our writing tool of choice.