Here and here – videos from Prof. James Duane and Officer George Bruch about why talking to the police is almost never a good idea.
software
omploader – A place to upload files. It can also be done with a firefox extension or in a script.
Paperback, from the OllyDbg guy. This lets you store data on paper (about 500 KB for A4 at 600 DPI).
web
HTML5 Canvas Experiment – Perhaps good for comparing different Javascript engines. It chokes on Firefox 3.5 on my Atom 330, but works well on 3.6.
drop.io – A file sharing site which Wired mentioned because of its ability to set an expiration date on any file you upload. It also appears to have a collection of other, much cooler features for collaboration.
programming,linux
Bash cures cancer – Some helpful stuff for commandline Unix/Linux. It seems to have not been updated in about a year though.
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good! – My friend Lincoln showed me this. It’s a decent Haskell tutorial with some very oddball illustrations.
How to Design Programs – A book, freely available online, which teaches software design using Scheme (or is it DrScheme?)
How to Design Worlds: Interactive Programming in DrScheme – Another freely available book from the same guys that made HtDP, but this one is about writing interactive applications using pure functional programming.
games
Kongregate – A large collection of rather addictive online Flash games.
books
The Underground History of American Education by John Taylor Gatto; the full text is readable for free online. I haven’t read it, I just noted the link, so I can neither agree nor disagree with the contents of it.
Wishcraft by Barbara Sher; I came across this motivational book from Havi Brooks. I haven’t read this either, but I should at some point. It’s free as a series of PDFs.
Queen City Discovery – An interesting blog about urban exploration in Cincinnati that some guys in Hive13 told me about
Amidst a pile of other new-age and holistic bullshit in some free magazine, I miraculously discovered an ad for the “Uptown Farmer’s Market” at Garden Park – 3581 W. Galbraith Road, Fridays 12-7, Saturdays 10-2, 513-238-6616
MapReduce – I don’t care what your opinion of MapReduce is or how much it might suck, I am just putting this here so I will encounter it later and remember that it exists.
Balance of Power – A geopolitics game by Chris Crawford (also with his interesting essay/article here).
lit,historical
We the People Network – I was searching for an image of the Declaration of Independence here and discovered they have rather high-resolution scans (like, the Declaration is 63 megapixels) of that and many other historical documents too.
