Category: VAULT Links

Jason points me to Nation States. Its an interactive web/world were you create your own country. On regular chosen intervals you receive “issues” that your country has to deal with. Anyone who has ever wanted to have your own dictatorship (or perfect democracy) now has the chance.

Yesterday I fell across The Smoking Gun, a “less than mainstream” web news outlet. I don’t know about the accuracy or dependability of the information but it sure is interesting to read. Interesting in a Jerry Springer/X-Files kind of way.

Couple more Nethack links for the day. Beginners Guide for NetHack. Its an absolute must read if you want to survive more than a half dozen levels or so.

For a funny but entirely feasible journey into the NatHack universe check out planetfargo’s A guided Tour of NetHack. Its funny cause its true.

Finally, if you had a wand of polymorph what NetHack Monster would you be. Take the test and fine out. FYI I would be a cockatrice.

The Cato Institute is a non-profit public policy research foundation. Its libertarian focus on limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace have made for some of the best policy research available anywhere. Its focus is most consistent with the direction of the founders of our nation. Much of the site requires a subscription, but the “Research Areas” and “Publications” sections have a huge volume of information available to those interested in public policy. Cato’s Congressional Handbook is almost required reading for US Congressmen (although they never seem to follow it.)

A few cool resources I need links too. Gpart is a partition recovery program for when your primary partition table goes fubar. Filesystem support include everthing from ext2 and fat12 to QNX and BeOS. Anyone every buys used harddrives comes away amazed at the number of drives that simply have the partition table deleted.

If you want your data permanently deleted (i.e. almost NSA certified) check out Autoclave. Its a Linux boot floppy that allows you to choose the level of your hd wipe. Level 5 is 25 passes, some random, some patterned. Very, very perminate.

And what is possible the most enlightened usage of the internet I have seen in a long time check out The Map of Springfield. Yes, you can actually see a detailed map of the town the Simpson’s live in; complete with stores, buildings, and popular tourist attractions.

My brothers blog has found some spectacular articles in the last couple days. Want some weekend humor, check out War Games and Powerbook. Thanks for the heads up Adam.

Ok, couple quick links here is a post about converting from Movable Type to WordPress; and here is the Drupal website. Drupal is another popular GPL’ed content management system (aka: blog.)

Because its saves my ass to have it near…

Great article on the Popular Science website talking about weapons project that Pentagon is looking at. Some very cool stuff. Now if we can only find a way to know exactly who the bad guys are (ala: X-men 2 Cerebro.)

Ok, I have a whole bunch of old links that I have been meaning to post here for a while and just never got the time. So without further ado:

• Big D & Bubba Arcade -On-line flash games for waisting time.
• CGI XMLRPC -How-to tutorial on getting CGI to use XMLRPC.
• Crystal Space -The Open Source 3D development toolkit.
• Plane Shift -The Definitive Open Source MMORPG game that uses Crystal Space.
• Single Signon -An IBM tutorial on implementing a single sign-on solution.
• Moho -The cross platform vector based Web Cartoon development enviroment. ahem… ADAM!
• Garage Games -Closed source Linux games.
• J2EE by Sun -A SUN Microsystems tutorial on J2EE development for people with Java experience.
• LiteOn Airboard -The ultimate HTPC keyboard solution. Thanks Jason!
• The Sphinx Project -Open Source voice recognition software.
• Lib WordPerfect -A library for importing Word Perfect documents.

Hope some of you find these links as useful as I do.