Computing

/ Computing

File managers for X: X File Explorer and Emelfm2. Xwinman.org compares X window managers and desktops, including Icewm, which is also discussed at Osnews.com. Network security information at Insecure.org, including a list of the top 75 network security tools Wireless network detection information at Netstumbler.com. Kismet, a wireless network sniffer. Graham Williams’s Debian Desktop Survival Guide. Optimize Windows XP in various ways. A Comprehensive Guide to .htaccess. The Vim Outliner. Dotfiles.com. PHPBuilder.com for PHP things. MPlayer plays movies in many formats for Windows and Linux computers. .htaccess tips and tricks. How to read e-mail headers. Donovan Rebbechi’s grep tutorial. Grep for Windows. SQL syntax reference at the home of the Mckoi Java SQL Database. Unix Tips and Tricks. Vim cheatsheet. Edi Weitz’s Regex Coach. Gord Braun’sWindows XP repair page. Introduction to Excel Pivot Tables. O’Reilly’s Unix Power Tools online. GNU Screen resources. How to bypass Internet firewall restrictions. David Rayner’s Vim Tips. Basic tips for administering a MySQL server.

Election

/ John Kerry, Politics, Social Sciences

Electoral-vote.com tallies state-level polls as they are released and maps them. You can move through the reports and watch states turn pink and baby blue. The New York Times 2004 Election Guide is an interactive map of the presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial races. Pleasure Boat Captains for Truth. The presidential election at pollingreport.com. Systematic Bias by Polling Organisation, as measured at goringe.net. Electoral College Meta-Analysis by Sam Wang. A manipulable electoral college map. Larry Sabato’s election website. Stephen Lorimor’s election website. Dale’s Electoral College Breakdown 2004.

Bush’s “hometown” newspaper endorses Kerry. Re: elections, Kenneth Arrow’s impossibility theorem on Wikipedia. Electionmethods.org. Republicans know less about what Bush stands for than Democrats know about what Kerry stands for. More electoral college forecasts: Pollkatz’s Electoral Landscape, RealClear Politics, and
Rasmussen Reports’s Red Blue Chart. A BBC international presidential preference poll. The Election Incident Reporting System’s map of nationwide election incidents.

Texts

/ Conduct, GW Bush Admin, Politics, State, Texts, Writing and Editing

Craig Calhoun, “The Class Consciousness of Frequent Travelers: Toward a Critique of Actually Existing Cosmopolitanism” (2002). C. Wright Mills, “On Intellectual Craftsmanship” (1959). Lion Kimbrough, How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought You Think (2003). A treasury of Tom Swift texts. An infinity of George W. Bush speeches. NASA’s Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. Christian Bök’s Eunoia. The 2004 Bulwer-Lytton Awards. Seymour Hersh’s address to the ACLU (July 8, 2004) on the unfolding story of American war crimes. People write exactly one hundred words a day and leave them at a website. Discussions among testy copyeditors. An outline of Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. A scientific method FAQ. The 1,000 Journals Project. A chronology of the secretarial profession. US Presidents’ inaugural addresses and state of the union messages from George Washington to the present. Online books at Project Gutenberg and Bartleby.com. 100 top American speeches, most with links to .mp3 audio versions. Online book directories: The Online Books Page at The University of Pennsylvania, links to collections and archives at the University of Adelaide, and a collection of links at The British Columbia Digital Library.

Music

/ Music

Singing science records. The music of Senator Orrin Hatch. Dialtones: a telesymphony. Copyleft music at Loca Records. A collection of ASCII/MIDI music videos. Largeheartedboy mp3 download links — also Mystery and Misery and Our Lady of Perpetual Obsolescence Vinyl Rescue Mission and Orphanage. Also The Album of the Moment and Fluxblog and Ubuweb and ‘Buked and Scorned. Stairway to Heaven backwards. The Online Guide to Whistling Records. Shooby Taylor, the human horn. The archives of Stunted Development, a weekly radio music show from Richmond, Virginia. Classic Cat: a catalog of 1,500 free-to-download classical pieces. Asian classical music and other Ibiblio music archives. Beware of the Blog at WFMU. Two Hundred and Sixty-Eight Splendid MP3 Weblogs. Webmidifyer: “Reads textual data from any web site and converts it to MIDI music.” Then use Mobile 17 to make that into a cellphone ringtone. The Live Music Archive. Strange Reaction. monkeySARS: “A humble mp3 blog for the socially inept.”