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@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ Novels
* **Return From the Stars** by Stanislaw Lem
* **Mortal Engines** by Stanislaw Lem
* **The Moon is a Harsh Mistress** by Heinlen
+ * **Babel-17** (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babel-17)
+ SciFi, a language is invented to be used as a weapon
Non-Fiction
-----------
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+
+Half Baked Ideas
+===================
+
+The Simulacra-cycle
+-------------------------
+Bicycling with a light-weight (and functional!) helmet embedded with with 360
+fisheye camera coverage. Also collect rotation/acceleration data and
+post-process out movements to give a stable 360 video image which can be played
+back with 3D goggles (or a basic computer/tablet interface?).
+
+Enhanced version would also record bike vibrations, pedal turns, audio, and
+handlebar positions, and this could be played back on an artificial bike.
+
+Solar Autonoma
+-----------------
+An audio "artifact": a CD jewel case with a photovoltaic panel powering a
+generative digital/analog electronic music box which outputs hundreds of years
+worth of non-repeating audio to an 1/8" headphone jack.
+
+One crude output algorithm could be the raw position of a turning machine
+(probably a busy beaver) tape position over time. Another is interpreting a
+meta-stable cellular autonoma's cells as notes; perhaps the combination of
+these two ideas?
+
+Should be engineered to last at least a few decades without repairs, which
+means compensating for PV cell degredation.
+
+Techno-cyption
+----------------
+Robustly encode arbirary data into techno, similar to image-based stenography
+techniques. Should be able to recover the data from audio recorded live at a
+concert or rave; perhaps in real-time?
+
+Leads to "verboden" music which is illegal to broadcast and listen to?
+
+Robotic Mouse Cursor
+-----------------------
+An omni-drive robot encased in a mouse, controlled by a touchstick or touchpad.
+Should translate very quickly, so the user feels like they are "mousing" and
+selecting over the floor.
+
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+
+"Big Hairy Fun Projects" /or/ "What To Do Next"
+========================================================
+
+A fuzzy-formal justified reasoning system for use as an external prosthesis
+when debating complex systems and problem (eg, climate change, theology,
+globalization, unified field theory)
+
+Generalized, Open Source, software/network-based Improvements to Beaurocratic
+Systems
+
+Generalized function fitting to (or computational modeling of) arbitrary
+single-dimensional timestreams
+
+New telecommunications and network infrastructure/technologies at all scales
+
+
+Social Software
+=================
+
+[A Group Is It's Own Worst Enemy](http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html)
+
+[Why Defend Freedom of Icky Speech?](http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/12/why-defend-freedom-of-icky-speech.html)
+
+To read:
+
+ - <http://joi.ito.com/joiwiki/EmergentDemocracyPaper>
+ - <http://www.cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2001/cs6470_fall/LTAND.html>
+
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@@ -28,4 +28,16 @@ Webmail
the null webmail client http://www.nulllogic.ca/webmail/
+Standard ML
+-----------
+
+`The SML Standard Basis (of types)
+<http://www.soc.napier.ac.uk/~andrew/SMLBasis/sml-std-basis.html>`_
+
+Mutually recursive function using 'and' syntax:
+
+ fun foo 0 = "beer car"
+ | foo n = bar(n-1)
+ and bar 0 = "bacon"
+ | bar n = foo(n-1);