Archive for March 2004
Alan Winstanley’s Basic Electronics Soldering and Desoldering Guide. Movies from NASA demonstrate how to solder electronics. EPE Online Soldering FAQ, with soldering and desoldering picture galleries. How to solder, including different metals and flat pieces of metal. Soldering copper pipes: Tim Carter, Chris Tabone, and acmehowto.com explain how. Soldering stained glass. Carl Brannen on soldering very tiny things. How not to solder.
A moon phases calculator. Moon phases for every day from 3999 B.C. to 3999 C.E. View the earth and the moon from the earth, the moon, the sun, and other perspectives. Images of the moon.
The fundamental differences between the Winworld and the Nixworld. A page that explains, in a roundabout way, how to set up the appropriate relationships between /var/www/users and /home. Meanwhile, Apache virtual host documentation. comp.os.linux.misc on Google Groups. A serial laplink howto. IBM’s Windows-to-Linux overview pages. A guide to Linux groups on Usenet.
The beginnings of wiki.linuxquestions.org.
A script that allows the Knoppix CD to achieve LAMP with a MySQL database stored on a USB stick. A package that allows the CD to access a bundled copy of phpMyAdmin and a test PHP website. A Knoppix Samba FAQ. Using update-rc.d to add services on boot (this is also useful). Use /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh to start the odd hardware driver or other processes. A script and a package list that are both helpful for apt-get-removing clutter from a hard-disk installation of Knoppix. Three knoppix.net discussions (one, two, three) on sorting out problems with mounting removable media. Godot’s Debian/Knoppix page. Klik installs key software to Persistent Home. Apt-get and dpkg tutorial and links. Configuring /etc/apt/sources.list using any number of mirror sites.
The Text Encoding Initiative: “TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard that helps libraries, museums, publishers, and individual scholars represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts for online research and teaching, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent.” Jeffrey Veen on accessible design, with links to examples. Position Is Everything: a CSS site with an emphasis on designing around browser quirks (good links, too). CSS column layouts compatible with Netscape 4.x (and more here, too). How to use CSS to make line spacing consistent when using superscript and subscript characters. Design Detector pulls an extreme CSS stunt.
Venus as explored by the Soviet union during the 1970s. Borough Market in London. Louis Armstrong’s house in Corona. Subway systems of the world at fakeisthenewreal.org. Buffalo commons map of US counties with fewer than six people per square mile. Data about US cities and towns at city-data.com. Chernobyl and environs. A bus shelter in Unst.
How computers cause bad writing. A gallery of "misused" quotation marks. The Apostrophe Protection Society. Links to citation style guides at the University of Iowa. The online stylesheet for Convergence Magazine. Relics of the Post Age: "Rescuing the handwritten letter from extinction." Open Brackets, a weblog often about translation. Rudy Limeback’s guidelines for writing.
An animation of US congressional polarization. Billionaires for Bush. A map of hate groups in the United States. What $87 billion looks like. “So welcome fellow patriot to USA Patriotism!” Dean for America begets Democracy for America. Browse presidential campaign donors by name and location at fundrace.org. The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression’s Jefferson Muzzles Awards.
The US Constitution, heavily annotated, at the University of Chicago Press. A collection of historical anarchist texts. Patrick O’Brian sites: The Gunroom and Maturin’s Medicine. A lace of hyperlinked words at Blather. Bluebook, a legal citation stylesheet. Worldofquotes.com. Garret Hardin’s “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor” (1974). “With his blue ox, Emily Dickenson, Walt Whitman traveled across young America and helped the nation grow into the angry powerhouse it is today.” Wikipedia.
WordNet: “an online lexical reference system whose design is inspired by current psycholinguistic theories of human lexical memory. English nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are organized into synonym sets, each representing one underlying lexical concept. Different relations link the synonym sets.” An inflation calculator for US currency, and links to other inflation calculators. Briefing.com calendar of upcoming US economic reports. Freepint.com, a big collection of links for online research.
