Weekly Shaarli

All links of one week in a single page.

Week 14 (April 2, 2007)

Business chat for groups: Campfire

project group chat + file sharing

TIP Recommended Packages for newbies - Gentoo Linux Wiki
thoggen - DVD backup/ripping with style

dvd to ogg theora ripper

Mixxx - Free Digital DJ Software
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Mixxx allows DJs to mix music digitally with a clean, simple interface. Futhermore, Mixxx has a number of key features to help DJs live in the mix: Beat estimation, parallel visual displays, and support for various DJ hardware controllers.

theora.org :: main

libre audio/video

Hydrogen - advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux

Hydrogen is an advanced drum machine for GNU/Linux [Fruityloops-like]. It's main goal is to bring professional yet simple and intuitive pattern-based drum programming.

Bembo's Zoo

An animated animal alphabet - made with Bembo

"Incantations for Muggles: The Role of Ubiquitous Web 2.0 Technologies in Everyday Life"

by danah boyd

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories

Making the World a Better Place, One Evil Mad Scientist at a Time

LibriVox

LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain and release the audio files back onto the net.

Body hacking & Functional body modification

If you can't open it, you don't own it

Technical Revenue: Have a great startup idea? Hmm. Maybe not.

I've started a large handful but no one knows about most of them because they were (in no particular order): dumb ideas, unsuccessful, too hard for me to complete.

Deep Mix Moscow Radio

beats and bleeps

Bibi's box: Posters Archives
Proggy Programming Fonts

Bitmap fonts for terms

Espontânea - Associação Cultural e Recreativa
Luna Maurer
Jonathan Puckey
U B U W E B :: Nancy Perloff "Postmodernism and the Music of John Cage"

"The right to be myself, as long as I live! As if I were a sound."

Design Your Soccer Engine, and Learn How To Apply Design Patterns

excellent introduction to design patterns

Mims's "This Is Why I'm Hot": A Graphical Dissertation on America's Number One Song by Rob Harvilla
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language + infographic analysis on the Billboard #1 single's lyrics

Gungirl Sequencer: Welcome to Gungirl Sequencer!

Gungirl Sequencer is an easy to use Audiosequencer. It includes a simple Filemanager and uses Drag & Drop to arrange Audiosamples.

Practical Electronics @ wikibooks

The aim of this books is to teach you simple analogue and digital electronics at a practical level.

FileHamster - A Personal Revision Control Solution for Content Creators

FileHamster provides real-time backup and archiving of your files while you work. It enables you to monitor specific files on your hard drive and automatically create incremental backups whenever those files are modified.

Linux Font Equivalents to Popular Web Typefaces - Monday By Noon
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VSynth: FairLight Computer Video Instrument

The Fairlight CVI premiered in 1984/85, for around $6,500 USD, and came in beige or black. It's a hybrid Analog Digital video processor, designed by Australian engineers Peter Vogel and Kim Ryrie.

Mr Toledano - Phillip Toledano Photography

People playing videogames (and a lovely site layout)

JaromilTalks - Dyne.org Wiki
R&D Fellows Program | Eyebeam R&D OpenLab

Eyebeam is now accepting applications for the next round of R&D Fellows in the R&D OpenLab.

Cool Jargon of the Day

Serving Hacker Jargon to the Internet since Jan 1995.

info-arch.org: Community Infrastructure for Information Architects
Can anyone tell the difference between music files at 128 kbps and 256 kbps? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
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Are iTunes' Premium Downloads Worth It?

An Introduction to the Overton Window of Political Possibilities
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The essence of the Overton window is that only a portion of [the total] policy spectrum is within the realm of the politically possible at any time. Regardless of how vigorously a think tank or other group may campaign, only policy initiatives within this

Introduction to Catmull-Rom Splines

There are various functions available to approximate a curve, but in this article we will focus on a variety of spline known as the Catmull-Rom spline.

TrueType/OpenType Specifications
Second Life Herald: SL Makes Meta Fonts Free For 4 Million+ Residents

Linden
Labs has not licensed the fonts [FF Meta] which should be distributed to some 4 million computers by now. So: Delete them immediately!

Pie Menus

All kinds of insight about pie menus

Linksys WRT54GL
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running OpenDNS on the WRT54GL router

cats

cats + captions = joygasm :D

unbearable devices
L. Peter Deutsch in conversation with Stig Hackvän

Typography, free software and legal issues

t.y.p.o.r.g.a.n.i.s.m : ASCII-O-Matic

Flash-based ASCII-art converter