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October 2011

635 bookmarks saved in October 2011

The basics of reading data from resistive touchscreens - Hack a Day

http://hackaday.com/2011/10/28/the-basics-of-reading-data-from-resistive-touchscreens
[Chris] just posted his latest tutorial which shows you how to read position data from a resistive touchscreen. These devices are fairly simple, and since they’re used in a lot of consumer electronics you can pick one up for a few bucks. This looks like it is overstock for an old Palm device.
#arduino #hacks #hardware
archive.org #19251

Non-invasive AC power adapter for exercise equipment

http://hackaday.com/2011/10/13/non-invasive-ac-power-adapter-for-exercise-equipment
we have some battery powered exercise equipment that eventually got ac adapters. boggled my mind. why don't these things have built in generators powered by the work I'm doing during exercise?
archive.org #18939

Cool Solutions: LDAP Browser/Editor

http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/tools/13765.html
The LDAP Browser/Editor provides a user-friendly Windows Explorer-like interface to LDAP directories with tightly integrated browsing and editing capabilities. It is entirely written in Java with the help of the JFC (SwingSet) and JNDI class libraries. It connects to LDAP v2 and v3 servers.
#java #ldap #tools
archive.org #18922

Overview - Archivematica

http://archivematica.org/wiki/index.php?title=Overview
Archivematica provides an integrated suite of free and open-source tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to access in compliance with the ISO-OAIS functional model and other digital preservation standards and best practices. All of the Archivematica code and documentation is released under GPL and Creative Commons open-source licenses.
#archival #archives #libraries
archive.org #18787

BagIt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BagIt
BagIt is a hierarchical file packaging format designed to support disk-based storage and network transfer of arbitrary digital content. A "bag" consists of a "payload" (the arbitrary content) and "tags", which are metadata files intended to document the storage and transfer of the bag. A required tag file contains a manifest listing every file in the payload together with its corresponding checksum. The name, BagIt, is inspired by the "enclose and deposit" method [1], sometimes referred to as "bag it and tag it".
#archival #archives #libraries
archive.org #18786

WDET Shows - Modern Music

http://www.wdet.org/shows/modern-music
If you enjoy being on the cutting edge of "what's next," Modern Music w/ Jon Moshier is your place for discovering the sounds of new and emerging independent artists. From rock to electronic, with touchstones to classic underground, it's all about the music. You now have two opportunities to hear Modern Music; Fridays from 9-11pm and Sundays from 2-4pm.
#bsh #music #wdet
archive.org #18762

Your Third Religion

http://blog.iangilman.com/2011/10/your-third-religion.html
"This devotion to an idea is one of the amazing things about being human, but you're not much good to the rest of us until you're on to your 3rd."
#ideas #life #religion
archive.org #18694

The Fans Are All Right (Pinboard Blog)

http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/10/the_fans_are_all_right
I learned a lot about fandom couple of years ago in conversations with my friend Britta, who was working at the time as community manager for Delicious. She taught me that fans were among the heaviest users of the bookmarking site, and had constructed an edifice of incredibly elaborate tagging conventions, plugins, and scripts to organize their output along a bewildering number of dimensions. If you wanted to read a 3000 word fic where Picard forces Gandalf into sexual bondage, and it seems unconsensual but secretly both want it, and it's R-explicit but not NC-17 explicit, all you had to do was search along the appropriate combination of tags (and if you couldn't find it, someone would probably write it for you). By 2008 a whole suite of theoretical ideas about folksonomy, crowdsourcing, faceted infomation retrieval, collaborative editing and emergent ontology had been implemented by a bunch of friendly people so that they could read about Kirk drilling Spock.
#delicious #fandom #pinboard
archive.org #18692

Thanks for everything

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/thanks-for-everything.html
JPMorgan Chase recently donated an unprecedented $4.6 million to the New York City Police Foundation. The gift was the largest in the history of the foundation and will enable the New York City Police Department to strengthen security in the Big Apple. The money will pay for 1,000 new patrol car laptops, as well as security monitoring software in the NYPD's main data center.
#occupy #occupywallstreet #ows #police #politics
archive.org #18653