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 <li><a href=https://www.wordunscrambler.net/>Word Unscrambler</a> (Scrabble aid)
 <li><a href=http://www.improbable.com/>Improbable Research</a>
 <li><a href=https://zerowasteboxes.terracycle.com/>Zero Waste Box</a>
 <li>John Englander: <a class=exref href=http://www.johnenglander.net/420kyr-T-CO2-SL>Sea Level Rise</a>
 <li>Building Electronic Aircraft<ul>
 <li><a href=http://www.brooklynaerodrome.com/>Brooklyn Aerodrome</a>
 <li><a href=http://www.yelp.com/biz/aeromicro-santa-clara>AeroMicro</a>
 </ul>
 <li><a
 href=http://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-22/thirteen-months-of-working-eating-and-sleeping-at-the-googleplex>Thirteen
 Months of Working, Eating, and Sleeping at the Googleplex</a>
 <li><a href=http://www.taobackup.com/>Tao of Backup</a> or <a
 href=http://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/05/10/0152210>How
 quickly offline</a> <a href=http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/15/05/10/0936213>SSDs
 lose data</a>
 <li><a href=https://signalvnoise.com/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes>Give it Five Minutes</a>
 <li>Software Development/Design<ul>
 <li><a href=http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html>Duct Tape Programmer</a>
 <li><a href=http://www.ghostinthepixel.com/?p=24>Real Art Ships</a>
 </ul>
 <LI><a href=http://www.growingcitiesmovie.com/>Growing Cities</a>,
 <A HREF=http://www.betterworldshopper.org/>better world shopper</A>

<li><a href=http://www.dirtcheapbuilder.com/Home_Building/Stone_Masonry.htm>Stone Construction</a>
 <LI><A
 HREF=http://www.himalayanacademy.com/resources/books/hbh/hbh_ch-8.html>Choosing
 a Hindu Name</A>
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.longbets.org/>Long Bets</A>,
 <A HREF=http://www.longnow.org/>Long Now</A>,
 <LI><A
 HREF=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2267/is_n3_v63/ai_18888993>Why
 don't we catch</A> <A
 HREF=http://www.paulekman.com/full_bibliography.php>liars?</A>
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~mjuric/universe/>Logarithmic Maps of the Universe</A>
 <LI><A HREF="http://www.tjhsst.edu/~edanaher/pslife/">Life in PostScript</A>
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.janes.com/>Jane's</A>:
 Military, Terrorist, and other demagoguery developments
 <LI>Google <A HREF=http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends>Hot Trends</A>
 (formerly <A HREF=http://www.google.ca/press/zeitgeist.html>Zeitgeist</A>)
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html>Coase's
 Penguin, or Linux and the Nature of the Firm</A>
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.cluelessmailers.org/>The Spamdemic Map</A>
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.pseudodictionary.com/>pseudodictionary.com</A>
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.networldmap.com/>Net World Map</A> - mapping the physical locations of the world to the virtual locations of the Internet
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html>How To Write Unmaintainable Code</A>
 <LI><A HREF=http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/demo/96/35/demo.html>metasyntactic variable</A>
 <li>WiFi Madness:
 <a href=http://www.metageek.net/products>Wi-Spy</a>
 <LI>FM radio transmission 
 <A HREF=http://www.decade.ca/>DECADE</A>,
 <A HREF=http://www.hobbytron.net/>HOBBY TRON</A>,
 <A HREF=http://www.broadcastwarehouse.com/>Broadcast Warehouse</A>,
 <A HREF=http://www.fmtransmitter.com/>FM Concepts</A>,
 <A HREF=http://www.freeradio.org/>Free Radio Berkeley</A>,
 <A HREF=http://members.tripod.com/~wavemach/>wavemach</A>,
 <A HREF=http://www.progressive-concepts.com/>progressive concepts</A>
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Embrace,-extend-and-extinguish>embrace,
 extend, extinguish</A>: usually a last final anti-competitive gasp
 before a <A HREF=http://www.microsoft.com/>monopoly</A> is broken up
 <LI>Outer Space<UL>
 <LI><a href="http://www.nasa.gov">NASA</a>: outer space
 <A HREF=http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/>photos</A> and
 <A HREF=http://www.cnn.com/TECH/space/>stuff</A>
 <LI><A HREF="http://www.spaceweather.com/">Space Weather</A>
 <LI>Satellite Tracking:
 <a href=http://stuffin.space/>Stuff in Space</a>,
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.ipnsig.org/>Interplanetary Internet</A>
 </UL>
 <LI><A HREF="http://jodi.org/">jodi.org</A>: psychedelic HTML
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.wmin.ac.uk/media/HRC/ci/calif.html>The Caifornian</A>
 <A HREF=http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/theory-californianideology.html>Ideology</A> and now 
 <A HREF=http://www.nettime.org/nettime.w3archive/199909/msg00046.html>CYBER-COMMUNISM</A>
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.eiu.org/>Experimental Interaction Unit</A>
 <li><a href=http://gay-or-straight.com/>gay-or-straight<a/>
 <LI><A HREF="http://www.cluetrain.com/">the cluetrain manifesto</A>
 <A HREF=http://www.webmonkey.com/><IMG ALIGN=RIGHT
 SRC=/fredness/graphics/webmonkey.gif BORDER=0></A>
 <LI><A HREF="http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/">Web Monkey</A>: good resource
 for learning how to write HTML directly
 <LI><A HREF="http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/">Text Mode Quake</A>
 <LI><A HREF="svhumor.shtml">Nutty Bay Area Humor</A>
 <LI><A HREF="http://www.svtarot.com">Silicon Valley Tarot</A>,
 <A HREF=http://www.sleepbot.com/morgan/>Morgan's Tarot</A>
 <LI><A HREF="telnet://lambda.moo.mud.org:8888/">MOO</A>:
 text only (like Zork) online world. Telnet client required. 
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/>Eric's Random Writings</A>:
 <A HREF=http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/>The
 Cathedral and the Bazaar</A>,
 <A HREF=http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/homesteading/>Homesteading
 the Noosphere</A>
 <LI><a href=askjanis.html>Ask Janis</a>:
 some Silicon Valley slang defined
 <LI><A HREF="http://www.netmeg.net/jargon/terms/f/fud.html">FUD</A>:
 <A HREF="http://www.ora.com/reference/dictionary/terms/F/Fear_Uncertainty_and_Doubt.htm">Fear
 Uncertainty, and Doubt</A> 
 usually a marketing tactic used as a last resort
 <LI><A HREF="http://www.netmeg.net/jargon">The Jargon Dictionary</A>
 <LI><A HREF=http://www.cs.vu.nl/~eliens/documents/vrml/reference/>The
 Annotated VRML 2.0 Reference Manual</A>
 <LI><a href=http://www.safesexgetpaid.com>SafeSexGetPaid</a>
 
 <li><a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Man_theory>Great Man Theory</a>
 <li><a href=http://www.thedreamingmind.com/>The Four Agreements</A>
 <li>Curse of Object Oriented Programming (OOP):
 <a href=https://medium.com/@cscalfani/goodbye-object-oriented-programming-a59cda4c0e53>Goodbye</a>&nbsp;(Medium),
 <a href=https://blog.pivotal.io/labs/labs/all-evidence-points-to-oop-being-bullshit>OOP
 being BS</a>&nbsp;(Pivotal), 
 <a href=http://www.oocities.org/tablizer/>Programming Wisdom Center</a>
 
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