Experimental Programs

Kaleidoscope (Java archive applet)
Draw a polygon which will automatically be rotated/reflected according to a selected point symmetry. The polygon can be used as a set of control points for a B-spline.

About your browser (Javascript)
Web color chart (Javascript) This page gives hexadecimal and decimal RGB values for each color.

Whirling squares tilings (Examples generated using Haskell)


Links elsewhere


US documents   |   Water and weather   |   Space   |   Earth   |   Design   |   Geometry   |   PSU   |   Linux   |   Green building   |   Peak oil   |   Miscellaneous   |   Transportation   |   Jobs   |   Mapping   |   Health
Languages ( Tcl/Tk   |   PHP   |   XML   |   Haskell   |   Python   |   PostsgreSQL )

US Documents

House Constitution site   |   Declaration of Independence   |   Constitution
Treaty of Tripoli, pg 1 (tiff)   |   pg 2 (tiff)   |   html

LoC   |   LoC catalog   |   Whitehouse contact   |   Wyden   |   Merkley   |   Wu

The Moth


Water and Weather

NOAA   |   GOES SZI   |   Climate Timeline   |   heat   |   heat index   |   wind chill   |   lightning   |   storm names
Climate change   |   Snow info   |   Imagery   |   NOAA's Ark   |   Birds
A lost blue heron hitching a ride at sea.
A blue heron resting up before trying to find his way back to land.
Why the Four Corners Monument is in Exactly the Right Place
NOAA and San Francisco's Exploratorium Announce Educational Partnership
Marty
global warming

NWRFC   |   10 day forecast   |   RFCs   |   Missoula floods   |   Drought Monitor
Portland weather   |   elevations   |   Boston   |   SF   |   Seattle

Hydro links   |   OR Climate   |   dv_cd help   |   The Great Thirst
No name hurricane   |   Snow
Katrina: NOAA   |   NASA   |   small   |   big   |   Katrina.com
CRITFC   |   Fish First   |   Alaska Fisheries   |   PSU Student Water Resources Group
National Geodetic Survey   |   Univ. Corp. for Atmospheric Research


Space

Astronomy Picture of the Day   |   APoD archive   |   glass bow   |   Gravity Waves   |   Earthgrazer   |   Thor's Helmet
Hubble news   |   ISS Picture of Day   |   PPoD archive
ISS sightings (Portland, OR)   |   ISS (Boston, MA)   |   states
Astro Quilts: Astronomy Quilt of the Week   |   What the Hubble Saw   |   quilt index
Herschel Astronomy / Solar System Quilt

Shuttle RTF   |   Shuttle
Spaceweather   |   Solar flares   |   Simple Satellite Tracker
NASA Science
NASA Gallery   |   Spirit   |   Cassini/Huygens
Otherwordly Solar Eclipse
Portland State Aerospace Society
large hadron collider


Geology

Recent quakes: USGS EQ news   |   US   |   NW   |   PSU   |   CA   |   CA fcst   |   UT/ID   |   Central   |   Eastern   |   World quakes

World quakes -- site map   |   Seismo-surfing the Internet   |   History by day
1906 Centennial   |   EQ Handbook   |   Cascadia Scenarios
Loma Prieta after 10 years
Bombay Beach Earthquake Swarm Continues   |   New Madrid   |   WA slow tremor (2004)   |   2005   |   2006   |   Parkfield   |   Obsidian Swarm   |   faults

USGS news   |   St Helens volcanocam   |   classic   |   with bug   |   MSH download   |   PDX MSH info   |   Volcano Timeline
Alaska   |   Augustine   |   images
Redoubt ash particle   |   Redoubt   |   3/31/2009   |   4/11/2009   |   4/16/2009   |   4/16/2009   |   4/21/2009   |   4/28/2009   |   4/30/2009   |   5/3/2009   |   5/5/2009
Redoubt lightning

Geodynamo

World Trade Center Disaster
Seismograms of Terror


Design

General

Edward Tufte
Great Design (Joel Spolsky): What is Design?   |   What Makes It Great?   |   Usability in One Easy Step
Conway's Law   |   Committees

Websites

Viewability   |   Accessibility   |   Bobby
Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI)   |   Accessible Computing (ACM SIGACCESS)   |   Web Accessibility in Mind
SPRY web guide (PDF)   |   Accessible Website Design   |   Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers

UI Hall of Shame


Geometry

The Geometry Center (U of Minnesota)
Self-Organisation, Complexity and Artificial Life Research   |   links
Culturally Situated Design Tools
Wallpaper   |   Hyperbolic quiltmaking   |   Patchwork Puzzle Balls
xkcd   |   valentine   |   parking   |   sheep   |   swine flu   |   shark   |   crime scene   |   sheeple
estimation   |   threesome   |   understocked   |   haiku proof   |   history of 19th-century Oregon
tech support


PSU

Computer Science Department   |   CAT   |   CAT news   |   Judge   |   Prg Chllng   |   Haskell   |   Relay computer
Math Department
Geography Department
Physics Department
Art Department   |   WebCT (icky)   |   ARH204
Geology Department   |   Meteorites
Env Sci & Resources Dept   |   Eclub   |   Student Water Resources Group
Geospatial Research

PSU Library
Population Research
Schedule of Classes   |   PSU Map   |   Career Center
IT Certification


Linux and open source issues

Portland Linux/Unix Group   |   Linuxfest NW   |   Open Source   |   OSS/FS Reliability
Gnu manuals
Society of Women Engineers   |   NW
Slashdot   |   Linux Weekly News   |   Groklaw   |   Groklaw headines   |   ibiblio   |   LinuxMedNews   |   Virtual Medical Worlds July 2006   |   VMS on open source   |   EFF on DMCA   |   FSF   |   Defective By Design
The War on Sharing: Why the FSF Cares About RIAA Lawsuits
ECIS Provides A History of Microsoft's AntiCompetitive Behavior
A Few Facts As Antidote Against Microsoft's anti-ODF FUD Campaign
A Battle Over Deposing Bill Gates in the Novell v. Microsoft Antitrust Litigation
Donald Knuth: Mathematical Ideas, or Algorithms, Should Not Be Patented
US Copyright Law, King Lear, and Jammie Thomas-Rasset
Justice Rules Police Can't Steal Other Kid's Toys
Intel graphics
Born free
Commentary: Linux at Law
netbooks   |   naked computers   |   Zareason
newspapers
primes
The Next Age of Discovery
Open Scientifc Software   |   "Fastest Fourier Transform in the West"   |   GNU Scientific Library   |   Galois Field Arithmetic Library   |   Octave   |   GNUplot   |   Open Science Project


Green Building

Green-rated   |   Rebuilding Center   |   Energy Star   |   Energy Trust   |   Solar Energy of OR   |   Earth Share of OR   |   Energy Policy Act   |   summary   |   OR Tax Credits


Peak Oil

WA County Peak Oil   |   WCPO   |   Portland Peak Oil   |   Metadirectory   |   Post Carbon Institute
Energy Bulletin -- peak   |   Energy Bulletin -- all   |   Surving peak oil   |   Earth policy   |   Long now
Peak Oil Blues   |   Archdruid   |   Transition Towns   |   Sightline   |   Community Solutions
Countercurrents   |   Yes!   |   CultureQuake   |   Oil drum   |   Wilderness   |   EntropyPawsed
TransitionUS   |   Oil peak   |   roofs   |   siding   |   common dreams   |   grist   |   world changing
Sharon Astyk   |   Sustainable Choice   |   Health After Oil   |   Sustainable Med   |   Urban and Rural Reserves
solar now   |   wind turbine
A White Roof Isn't Always the Right Roof
Peak Oil and Sustainable Medicine, Part 1
Why The U.S. Is Not A Democracy

Association for the Study of Peak Oil: USA chapter   |   World HQ
M. King Hubbert: Analysis of oil data   |   Wikipedia

primitive tech
history   |   links   |   primitive ways   |   society   |   flight toys   |   herb net   |   TribalTek   |   Calendar
Echoes in Time   |   washtub forge   |   SCA   |   Solar cooking   |   Solar ovens   |   Paleo Planet
Survival Skills   |   Flock & Fiber
OR wild harvest   |   Vetiver   |   Herbs for Health

Cooking with the Sun
The unnoticed technologies
The Investment Delusion
Waiting for the Saucers
Genji and the Printing Press
Facing Decline, Facing Ourselves
Overpopulation is a Cultural Challenge


Miscellaneous

Natl Acad Press science links   |   OMSI   |   DaVinci   |   Exploratorium   |   eclipse
EnchantedLearning   |   Museum of Science
Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names
PBS   |   Science   |   Evolution Timeline   |   glaciers   |   Project Gutenberg   |   Science Daily
ars technica   |   esciencenews   |   Fold it   |   humanfyn   |   Evolvefish
The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin

Pagan nation   |   US Secular   |   Americans United
Veto Power: What James Madison Can Teach Barack Obama
The Top Ten Reasons to Scrap Modern Culture
A few thoughts on religions and on belief systems
The End of Christian America
Celebrating The Secular: Obama Says U.S. Is Not A Christian Nation
Unholy Alliance: Marriage Laws Should Separate Church And State
Department Of Health And Human Services Should Revoke Bush-Era 'Conscience' Rules, Says Americans United
10 Weird Food Laws (That Should Be Resisted)

Columbia Association of Puppeteers   |   Puppet Museum   |   Puppeteers of America
interational puppetry museum   |   Kithrup

Raptorcam
Huffington Post   |   Daily Mail   |   from Daily Mail   |   Epoch Times   |   BBC   |   Portland

Axis of Triplet

Flying Spaghetti Monster   |   Wichita Eagle   |   more FSM
Galactic 'spaghetti monster' powered by magnetic fields

State of OR
PCC   |   Sched   |   Computers


Transportation

Tripcheck   |   Metro roads -- no longer works with Netscape (Mozilla ok)   |   zoomed
Tri-met   |   Max mess   |   Max disruptions
Portland Transport   |   Streetcar   |   Amtrak   |   AORTA
Bike research


Jobs

Programmer "Shortage" -- http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b.html
H-1B Hall of Shame -- http://www.zazona.com/ShameH1B/
ORTech -- http://www.ORtech.org
H-1B changes
programming   |   card punch   |   sys admin day
40 years of Unix
FCW


Languages

Tcl/Tk

Tcl Developer Xchange   |   Tcl 8.3 manual   |   Tk

Books:

Tcl/Tk in a Nutshell   |   Tcl/Tk Pocket Reference (really condensed)
Practical Programming in Tcl and Tk

Graphics

Graphviz   |   Graphviz -- Tcl
GD Graphics Library   |   libgd   |   Fracster
Portable Network Graphics
FreeType
JpGraph (for PHP)
R -- stats   |   Examples
qgfe -- front end for gnuplot
Matlab mimic for Python   |   Cookbook   |   Chaco   |   Open source   |   web service example

PHP

PHP   |   Tutorial   |   Manual   |   Functions   |   Images   |   Command line   |   PostgreSQL   |   Links

XML

Check validity

Haskell

Haskell

Python

Python   |   tutorial   |   refs + BNF   |   more tutorials

PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL   |   Commands (8.0)   |   Commands (7.4)   |   Explain   |   ecpg   |   Manuals   |   Foundry   |   PostGIS

JAVA

Java regex


Mapping

MapServer   |   FWTools   |   Geospatial Data Abstraction Library   |   PostGIS   |   Geoid
GRASS -- Geographic Resources Analysis Support System


Health Info

Weston A Price   |   THINCS   |   Dr. Kendrick   |   Dr. Briffa   |   Dr.Gifford-Jones   |   Kaiser Network   |   Kaiser News
NIH alternative   |   Naturopaths   |   NCNM   |   OCOM   |   Well Being Journal
OASIS   |   OASIS classes   |   New Seasons Classes
OHSU Brain info   |   OHSU Heart info   |   OHSU Women's health
HHS women   |   HHS women -- news   |   Neurological
Slow Food   |   Ban Trans Fats   |   Unscience   |   spacedoc
More info

Meat-Eating Dinosaurs Used Legs and Arms Like Birds
Birds Don't Miss a Beat
Cats Purrfect at Getting Needs Met, Study Shows
Strengthening the Health Insurance System: How Health Insurance Reform Will Help America's Older and Senior Women
brain evolution
Deep thought - Sept 1
Brain changes may have led to Stone Age tools
How cooking makes you a man

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