the reality tunnel

audio mixing servers

http://oktober.stc.cx/source/streamixer.html

info about building your own computers
alexi pointed me here: http://cr.yp.to/hardware.html

the golden compass
i stayed up late last finishing phillip pullman’s excellent book the golden compass. it’s fantasy, but only loosely – pullman crafts a “universe like hours” in which witches, talking bears and animal companions, called daemons are entirely believeable and do nothing to detract from the basic humanity of the characters. it’s [...]

critical mass article
jason pointed me to this article about crtical mass. it’s an indication that critical mass is now on the broader social radar, which is awesome. some drivers might have a negative experience, but at least it brings the issue to the forefront. still, as with any kind of highly symbolic [...]

journal entries from 09.08.2002 and 09.10.2002

recipe: country fried tofu
this is the most unhealthy tofu that you will ever eat

ingrediants:

1 lb. firm tofu
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp. black pepper
1 1/4 cup all purpose flower
1 1/2 tsp. seasoned salt
1 tbsp nutritional yeast

mix the dry ingrediants. press excess water out of the tofu and cut into strips or large cubes. roll the tofu [...]

free textbooks
Tired of supporting an institution that is both exploitative and further exacerbates the problem of rising higher educational costs, I have decided to start giving away textbooks that I no longer wish to use. Sure, I could sell them used (which would still be supporting the college textbook industry) or I could sell [...]

howto: installing the java plugin for mozilla

1. Install the jre on one’s system
2. ln -s [full path name of libjavaplugin_oji.so e.g. /usr/lib/j2re1.3/plugin/i386/mozilla/javaplugin_oji.so] [mozilla plugin directory, e.g. /usr/lib/mozilla-1.0.0/plugins/]

software art
The whitney has a software art exhibition on the web called CODeDOC.

factoid: mail servers for columbus roadrunner
smtp-server.columbus.rr.com