Miscellaneous

• Commandlinefu.com
• Authoring with LaTeX
  • BibDesk, BibTeX and Subversion -- An academic's necessity, by Terrell Russell
  • CTAN home / tex-archive/ macros/ latex/ contrib/
• Speakeasy's Speed Test
• Irssi - The [IRC] Client of the Future
• A Guide to Efficiently Using Irssi and Screen, quadpoint.org
• GanttProject (free Windows/Mac OSX/Linux project management software)
• Sleepwarrior.com (hack your sleep)
• The Baby Name Wizard [Great visualization tool!]
• How I made a 1,474 Megapixel photo during President Obama's Inaugural Address. [Extremely cool!]
• Stormpulse (cool animated, interactive, storm tracker)
• Animated Knots by Grog
• How to Fund a Startup
• Is Walter Cronkite dead, or alive?
• Imaging Resource Comparometer digital Camera Image Comparison Page
• Logilab Python Tools
• IT Tutorials and Interview Questions
• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Wotsit's format, the programmer's resource.
• Speed and Velocity Conversion
• Animated Knots (Good for climbers)
• Adobe's PDF to HTML converter
• O'Really & Associates -- computer book parodies, stuff, things, t-shirts, some humor...
• Some good humor: The Bastard Operator From Hell
• Screen Presentation Tools: Tools for Creating Screen or Online Presentations, by Michael Wiedmann
• Map of Washington State
• Hotels near the University of Washington
• The Economist's currency converter
• Griffin Technology Net Monitor Database
• Maximum Dedicated Bandwidths ("OC-48, OC-49... whatever it takes.")
• LDAP World (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
• National Stolen Computer Registry
• For those interested in ISDN, you might check out my cousin Dan Kegel's web page on the subject
• iPhone stuff
  • How to set a silent ringtone (nice for repeat telemarket/scammer phone calls)
  • The 25 Best Outdoor iPhone Apps [Some handy tools for use outdoors]
• Academics and Research
  • Research Resources
    • DBLP> and FacetedDBLP
    • The ACM Portal
    • The 'Black Box' of Peer Review, Inside Higher Ed, March 4, 2009 [Cites How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment, by Michèle Lamon, Harvard University Press]
  • Honesty and ethics
    bullying
    • Self-Plagiarism in Computer Science, by Christian Collberg and Stephen Kobourov, University of Arizona, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 48, Issue 4, April 2005
  • "Mobbing," or Bullying in the Workplace
    • Mobbing, Wikipedia
    • WorkplaceBullying, Wikipedia
    • Stalking the Soul, by By Marie-France Hirigoyen, Helen Marx, and Thomas Moore (Translated by Marx Helen>, Helen Marx Books, 2005, ISBN:188558699X
    • Workplace Mobbing in Academe, Kenneth Westhues, Professor of Sociology, University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
      • Waterloo Strategy for Prevention of Mobbing in Higher Education, by Kenneth Westhues, Professor of Sociology, University of Waterloo
      • Checklist of Mobbing Indicators, by Kenneth Westhues, 2006
      • WAMI: Waterloo Anti-Mobbing Instruments
    • Mob Rule: In departmental disputes, professors can act just like animals, By John Gravois, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 52, Issue 32, April 14, 2006
• Data visualization frameworks
  • The Visualization Toolkit
  • Orange Data Visualization
  • The Davix Live-CD
• Software licensing
  • OSI Hopes To Decrease Number of Licenses, Slashdot (Bruce Parens, creator of the Open Source definition, hopes to get back to just three Open Source licenses from which to chose, rather than over 30)
  • Understanding Open Source Software, by Red Hat's Mark Webbink, Esq., GROKLAW
  • Open Source Licenses, by Zack Rusin
  • BSD and GPL Licensing, wikipedia
  • Quick Reference For Choosing a Free Software License, zooko.com
  • The Open Source Initiative has a list of open source licenses
  • Open Source Licensing: Links and Resources, wasabisystems.com
  • GPL v3 drafting process (Current Release: January 16, 2006: Next Release: Anticipated May or June 2006)
  • MySQL's "dual-license" model
  • Trademark and OSS, Software Pluralism, University of Washington Law School
  • Derivative Works, Software Pluralism, University of Washington Law School
  • Patent Risks, Software Pluralism, University of Washington Law School
  • Dual-licensing model
    • Dual Licensing in Open Source Software Industry, by Mikko Välimä, January, 2003
    • Dual Licensing: Having Your Cake and Eating It Too, by Philip H. Albert, LinuxInsider, November 16, 2004
    • Dual Licensing, OSS Watch
    • MySL AB FLOSS Exception
  • Open Source licenses in the courts
    • Litigation in Open Source, by Jason B. Wacha, Vice President of Corporate Affairs and General Counsel, MontaVista Software, Inc., August 8, 2004
    • Linksys routers caught up in open source dispute
    • Is Linksys shirking the GPL? (Maybe not.), O'Reilly OnLAMP.com
    • Linux's Hit Men, by Daniel Lyons, Forbes.com, October 14, 2003 [Discusses the problems of Cisco Systems' purchase of Linksys (manufacturer of home routers), which had GPL'd code on the Broadcom chips it used.]
    • GPL: IT'S THE LAW, by Nancy Cohen
• Automated Software Distribution projects
  • Automated Software Distribution Committee (ASDC) at UIUC
  • Automated Software Distribution at Sun Microsystems
  • Electronic Software Distribution: A Long Shot
  • The FFive Projects dealing with Managing File Systems
  • The OSF DME Software Distribution Service