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Miscellaneous
- Something to make you laugh
- Guitar stuff
- Sounds
- Visualize Whirled Peas (or just visualize)
- Complex Networks and Complexity Resources, Tim Evans, Imperial College
- Croizat, an open source panbiogeography visualization tool written in Python
- dataviz Australia data visualizations
- NetGrok, University of Maryland
- The Visualization Toolkit
- Orange Data Visualization
- The Davix Live-CD
- 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
- Animated Knots (Good for climbers)
- Screen Presentation Tools: Tools for Creating Screen or Online Presentations, by Michael Wiedmann
- Big data and visualization links (Courtesy of Jose Nazario)
- readability (A JS tool to strip content down to just the body of a page - done in python. one of several such projects.
- pipe2py (Takes Yahoo pipes output and preps it into Python code and/or a module)
- Open source data visualization and analysis for novice and experts. (Data mining through visual programming or Python scripting. Components for machine learning. Extensions for bioinformatics and text mining. Packed with features for data analytics.)
- DataCatalogs.org (Aims to be the most comprehensive list of open data catalogs in the world. It is curated by a group of leading open data experts from around the world including representatives from local, regional and national governments, international organisations such as the World Bank, and numerous NGOs.)
- Video of wrangler (Wrangler is an interactive tool designed to make it easier to manipulate data. Spend less time formatting and more time analyzing your data. Wrangler is the result of a collaborative project between researchers at Stanford and UC Berkeley.)
- Open Heat Map (Turn your spreadsheet into a map.)
- Dataviz in a tumblr. (Some cool graphics.)
- 22 Free Tools for Data Visualization and Analysis, By Sharon Machlis, Computerworld, April 20, 2011 (Got data? These useful tools can turn it into informative, engaging graphics.)
- 8 more free tools for data visualization and analysis, related blog by Sharon Machlis, Computerworld, April 28, 2011
- DataPatterns.org (Welcome to DataPatterns.org, a collection of tips and tricks for data work. This collection is not an finished document but a collection of opinions and evolving best practices. The purpose is not to present all available options and technologies but to pick one and follow it through. DataPatterns is also a collaborative effort: if you have some good hacks and would like to share them, please contribute a patch to the DataPatterns repository. some of this is dubious at big scales based on my experiences - csv, sqlite, etc - but much of it is useful for big data people.)
- Hardware
- Grab bag
- The Cave
of Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc (a 32,000 year-old cave in southern France!)
Subject of Werner Herzog's 3D documentary film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams.)
- Is that server down for everyone, or just for me?
- Sleepwarrior.com (hack your sleep)
- My brother, co-inventor of the breakaway basketball rim
- Commandlinefu.com
- WonderHowTo
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- Map of Washington State
- Hotels near the University of Washington
- The Economist's currency converter
- Griffin Technology Net Monitor Database
- Speakeasy's Speed Test
- Maximum Dedicated Bandwidths ("OC-48, OC-49... whatever it takes.")
- LDAP World (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)
- National Stolen Computer Registry
- Unicode
- Authoring with LaTeX
- Authoring with Word
- Remote server management
- Comparison of VNC, RDP, and other Remote Access software with KVM over IP technologies, by 42U
- REVIEW: IP KVM devices, by Ian Yates, Mar 16, 2008
- How to use KVM over IP, by Stephen J. Bigelow, Jul 2, 2010
- How to select a KVM over IP system to assist with HIPAA compliance, Avocent
- iPhone stuff
- Academics and Research
- Peter Neumann's treatise on the misplaced only
- Research Resources
- Honesty and ethics
- Self-Plagiarism in Computer Science, by Christian Collberg and Stephen Kobourov, University of Arizona, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 48, Issue 4, April 2005
- An ethical framework for information security research, by Michael Barrett, October 23, 2009
- A Framework for Understanding and Applying Ethical Principles in Network and Security Research, by Erin Kenneally, Michael Bailey, and Douglas Maughan, Proceedings of the Workshop on Ethics in Computer Security Research (WECSR) 2010, January, 2010
- "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
- 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
- When Mentoring Goes Bad, by Dawn E. Chandler, Lillian Eby and Stacy E. McManus, The Wall Street Journal, May 24, 2010
- 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
- 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
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