From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Fri Jun  5 05:31:18 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 12:31:18 +0000
Subject: APM: Austin Perl Mongers - Jun 10, 2009 (Wed @ 7pm)
Message-ID: <20090605123118.QURV0.74364.root@hrndva-web03-z02>

Greetings and Salutations!

It's that time of month again, ready to monger
some Perl?

If so, you are cordially invited to participate
with the Austin Perl Mongers monthly meeting. It
will start at 7pm at,

Mangia Pizza
12001 N. MoPac Expy
@ Corner of MoPac, Burnet, and Gracy Farms Ln.

This months topic is open to general discussion.
If you have any Perl related topics, problems,
or questions bring 'em on!

There will be a Perl related book at the table
and perhaps other signage.

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Sat Jun  6 08:30:34 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 15:30:34 +0000
Subject: APM: =?utf-8?q?Software_Engineering_=E2=89=A0_Computer_Science?=
Message-ID: <20090606153034.A3MEQ.68946.root@hrndva-web25-z01>

http://www.ddj.com/architect/217701907

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Sun Jun  7 07:45:27 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 9:45:27 -0500
Subject: APM: RPN calculator in Perl 6
Message-ID: <20090607144527.E8IBA.75401.root@hrndva-web15-z01>

http://daniel.carrera.bz/2009/06/rpn-calculator-in-perl-6/

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From howanitz at gmail.com  Sun Jun  7 09:25:13 2009
From: howanitz at gmail.com (Keith Howanitz)
Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 11:25:13 -0500
Subject: APM: RPN calculator in Perl 6
In-Reply-To: <20090607144527.E8IBA.75401.root@hrndva-web15-z01>
References: <20090607144527.E8IBA.75401.root@hrndva-web15-z01>
Message-ID: <c7999e830906070925h5e2e09eay4074b972d1a043dc@mail.gmail.com>

Interesting.

I wish writers would stop with the damn smart quotes:

If you put single quotes around any text, the regex matches that text
literally. So instead of writing \* you can write ?*?

 ?*? - when he really meant:

'*' as in the code sample. And it is not just on the web, I see it in
books as well.

On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 9:45 AM, <jameschoate at austin.rr.com> wrote:
>
> http://daniel.carrera.bz/2009/06/rpn-calculator-in-perl-6/
>

From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Mon Jun  8 05:27:48 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:27:48 +0000
Subject: APM: Hacking Society: Social June 16
Message-ID: <20090608122749.3EL0F.80221.root@hrndva-web17-z02>

Greetings,

It's once again that time for the Hacking Society
members and other interested parties to get
together and discuss the comings and goings of our
shared interests.

This month it will be at the HEB Central Market
Cafe on N. Lamar. That's between 38th and 45th.
7pm on the outside patio, unless the weather is
bad in which case we'll work our way inside.

Look for the table with the red covered "Applied
Cryptography" book, and possible other signage.

ps The Austin Perl Mongers meet is this week on
Wed. at Mangia Pizza at MoPac, Burnet, and Gracy
Farms Ln. 7pm.

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James Choate
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james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Tue Jun  9 22:49:32 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 0:49:32 -0500
Subject: APM: Tonights Meeting...
Message-ID: <20090610054932.MN6TZ.41778.root@hrndva-web21-z01>

Hi,

Spoke w/ Colin at Mangia yesterday after work and we are
good to go for the reservation.

I'd also like to ask the group what they think of "Hack
Spaces" and why you would or wouldn't find them usefull.

Where I'm coming from is using a hack space to migrate
into a hands-on science & technology center. Back in the
80's I worked with several people from UT operating a
hands on museum here in Austin called Discovery Hall. I'm
looking at two additional aspects in that it will be
multi city (Cheyenne, WY will be site #2) and it will
focus on shopping the tech hack efforts to other hack
spaces and science museums. I have contact info for about
80 sci-tech museums in the US and nearly 200 across the
globe.

I'm looking to open the doors on the Austin site by the
end of the year, and Cheyenne by the end of 2010. It will
be called "Confusion Research Center" which was the old
BBS name at Discovery Hall.

In case you're not familiar with some of the efforts going
on around the globe I'll add some reference links. There
are over 100 active hack spaces around the world right now.

The primary effort tracking site...

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Hackerspaces

The one in France...

http://www.tmplab.org/

A couple of Wired articles...

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/08/us-hackers-moun/

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/03/hackerspaces/

NYC Resistor...

http://www.nycresistor.com/

Noisebridge... (I really like the range of efforts)

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge

Tokyo Hackerspace...

http://www.tokyohackerspace.com/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

Leonardo's Basement...

http://www.leonardosbasement.org/

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From michael.reddick at gmail.com  Wed Jun 10 07:57:47 2009
From: michael.reddick at gmail.com (Michael Reddick)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:57:47 -0500
Subject: APM: Tonights Meeting...
In-Reply-To: <20090610054932.MN6TZ.41778.root@hrndva-web21-z01>
References: <20090610054932.MN6TZ.41778.root@hrndva-web21-z01>
Message-ID: <3c649c280906100757q2e15ededt90e1b82ddaad41bd@mail.gmail.com>

>
>
> I'd also like to ask the group what they think of "Hack
> Spaces" and why you would or wouldn't find them usefull.
>
>
Sounds cool to me.
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From howanitz at gmail.com  Wed Jun 10 08:19:30 2009
From: howanitz at gmail.com (Keith Howanitz)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:19:30 -0500
Subject: APM: Tonights Meeting...
In-Reply-To: <20090610054932.MN6TZ.41778.root@hrndva-web21-z01>
References: <20090610054932.MN6TZ.41778.root@hrndva-web21-z01>
Message-ID: <c7999e830906100819l277f3467g15ae7c380d9fe4e9@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:49 AM, <jameschoate at austin.rr.com> wrote:
[SNIP
> I'd also like to ask the group what they think of "Hack
> Spaces" and why you would or wouldn't find them usefull.
[SNIP]

Will it be related at all to this?

http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ACTLab

I would be more interested in joining what I think is called
"TechShop", or some combination of a Hack Space and Tech Shop. I don't
have the space for a lathe, welder, and other tools I would sometimes
like access to, but think I would be willing to pay to have membership
someplace where I would have access.

http://www.techshop.ws/

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/remake_tool_sharing.html

Anyway, best of luck to your efforts, I think I am too busy to get
involved right now, but I would like to hear how it goes - I am
definitely interested.

From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Wed Jun 10 09:00:18 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:00:18 +0000
Subject: APM: Tonights Meeting...
In-Reply-To: <c7999e830906100819l277f3467g15ae7c380d9fe4e9@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20090610160019.1HSOI.48694.root@hrndva-web12-z01>

>From my research on ACTLab it is related to UT students and interests. It's related to providing students a mechanis of collaboration. Their outreach to the general community (eg The Robot Group, Dorkbot, Geek Austin, APM, LOPSA, etc.) has been minimal if non-existant. The couple of satellite ACTLabs that have sprung up are also tightly linked to instructors at colleges and not the general community.

Les is the one in South Austin who is doing the Tech Shop effort. Have you spoken with him? I was down there just a couple of months ago and spent a Saturday afternoon going over his business plan and goals. His goals and business model are more commercial/production oriented and not so much community oriented. He interacts with The Robot Group trying to get them involved but the costs and gottcha's seem prohibitive. If  you haven't spent a bit of time talking to him then I strongly suggest you do so. Les's basic goal is to increase his business cash flow.

With regard to traditional shop services, that's the whole point of growing the hack space into a hands-on museum. You might want to check out the Exploratorium (it was the model Discovery Hall was built on).

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

The hack space would grow into a full blown shop with resources to build exhibits and other projects (eg Lord British's 12 ft tall Tesla Coil we did at DH for the haunted houses). The way the Exploratorium and DH did it was to have the shop a visible component of the exhibit floor so that it becomes an exhibit itself. I intend to make the hack space the first exhibit and the core the other efforts build on.

The problem I see with all these parallel efforts is that they are not brought together to build some inertia of interest and consensus. They also don't address the aspect of marketing the efforts to the public through other, similar, groups. This is a win-win from many aspects. It's what drove me to look at having multiple sites.

The CCC put out a "Building a Hacker Space" paper,

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2007/Fahrplan/events/2133.en.html

http://jaromil.dyne.org/journal/documents/Hacker-Space-Design-Patterns.pdf

The shop facilities and related community were what led to The Robot Group forming back in 1989 through DH and it still exists.

If any of you are staff or students at UT you might want to get in touch with Dr. Jack Turner in Physics. He was one of the two original guiding lights to DH. I worked with him for about 10 years or so.

http://order.ph.utexas.edu/

I've got the resources to open an initial meeting place of about 400-500 sq. ft. and a basic internet feed (ie business class RR). That comes to about $700/mo and I can cover that myself. By charging member dues of approx. $75/mo. it should be self-sustaining in about six months. I can then use that same cash flow to open the second sight in Cheyenne, WY at the end of 2010.

---- Keith Howanitz <howanitz at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:49 AM, <jameschoate at austin.rr.com> wrote:
> [SNIP
> > I'd also like to ask the group what they think of "Hack
> > Spaces" and why you would or wouldn't find them usefull.
> [SNIP]
> 
> Will it be related at all to this?
> 
> http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ACTLab
> 
> I would be more interested in joining what I think is called
> "TechShop", or some combination of a Hack Space and Tech Shop. I don't
> have the space for a lathe, welder, and other tools I would sometimes
> like access to, but think I would be willing to pay to have membership
> someplace where I would have access.
> 
> http://www.techshop.ws/
> 
> http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/12/remake_tool_sharing.html
> 
> Anyway, best of luck to your efforts, I think I am too busy to get
> involved right now, but I would like to hear how it goes - I am
> definitely interested.
> _______________________________________________
> Austin mailing list
> Austin at pm.org
> http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/austin

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Wed Jun 10 14:37:10 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:37:10 +0000
Subject: APM: COREWAR TINY EVOLVER TEV V0
Message-ID: <20090610213710.B3PI0.56935.root@hrndva-web18-z01>

The Corewar Tiny Evolver is a small (< 1.5K) program written in GWBasic. After a couple of hours evolving, TEV is capable of producing programs able to compete with hand-written progams and enter the Corewar nano hill.

http://impomatic.blogspot.com/2009/06/corewar-tiny-evolver-tev-v0.html

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 11 00:24:33 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 7:24:33 +0000
Subject: APM: arXiv.org
Message-ID: <20090611072433.6Z49V.63748.root@hrndva-web07-z01>

This is the white paper archive that was discussed at the meeting.

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 11 01:14:17 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 8:14:17 +0000
Subject: APM: The First Few Milliseconds of an HTTPS Connection
Message-ID: <20090611081418.FSXH8.65088.root@hrndva-web14-z01>

http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-https.html

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 11 10:11:23 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:11:23 -0500
Subject: APM: Computer Go
Message-ID: <20090611171123.N4V53.72745.root@hrndva-web23-z01>

I know there's at least one person in APM who plays Go, anybody else play or have an interest in the current rapid increase in the performance of the Go programs in beating human opponents?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Go

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 11 14:17:29 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:17:29 -0500
Subject: APM: Phrack 66 is out!
Message-ID: <20090611211729.AYIPG.77725.root@hrndva-web27-z01>

http://www.cgisecurity.com/2009/06/phrack-66-is-out.html

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 11 14:20:40 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:20:40 -0500
Subject: APM: A Working Theory About RC4
Message-ID: <20090611212041.3FY3P.78709.root@hrndva-web04-z01>

http://www.matasano.com/log/1774/a-working-theory-about-rc4/

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 11 14:23:55 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:23:55 +0000
Subject: APM: Cryptographic Right Answers
Message-ID: <20090611212355.P0DEE.78763.root@hrndva-web04-z01>

http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-right-answers.html

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 11 14:25:16 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:25:16 +0000
Subject: APM: Making a hash of floating point numbers
Message-ID: <20090611212516.K12VU.78785.root@hrndva-web04-z01>

http://virtualdub.org/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=259

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 11 14:38:53 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:38:53 +0000
Subject: APM: Programming Challenge: Letter Frequency
Message-ID: <20090611213853.AYJ2S.78453.root@hrndva-web07-z01>

http://blog.p-jansson.com/2009/06/programming-challenge-letter-frequency.html

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Fri Jun 12 08:08:19 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:08:19 +0000
Subject: APM: Extracting Meaning From Millions of Pages
Message-ID: <20090612150819.RWAXF.90007.root@hrndva-web28-z01>

Seems to be a competitor for Wolfram Alpha

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/06/12/1217234/Extracting-Meaning-From-Millions-of-Pages?art_pos=4

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Fri Jun 12 12:02:37 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 19:02:37 +0000
Subject: APM: Possibly Suggested Reading
Message-ID: <20090612190237.1XRS7.96864.root@hrndva-web20-z01>

I've been unable to find a particular book in my library and
wanted to replace it. Thought it would be a simple google and
some digging around in a couple of the online book vendors...

but no dice, so it occured to me that a couple of years ago
for Hangar 18 I had put together a reading list of some of
my books and thought I'd check there. Since it's online I
thought I'd share it. Perhaps something there will strike
somebodies fancy (and no I don't loan my books out, sorry).

http://ssz.com/Hangar18/links.html

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Fri Jun 12 12:36:16 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (James Choate)
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:36:16 -0500
Subject: APM: Fw: From som s and other Perl group members on LinkedIn
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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Sun Jun 14 08:28:24 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 15:28:24 +0000
Subject: APM: Stealing your history......without Javascript!
Message-ID: <20090614152825.VA3XE.116307.root@hrndva-web14-z01>

http://www.making-the-web.com/misc/sites-you-visit/nojs/

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http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Sun Jun 14 19:27:00 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 2:27:00 +0000
Subject: APM: Hacking Society - Austin, Tx: Tue. June 6 7pm
Message-ID: <20090615022700.VYKO4.123828.root@hrndva-web24-z01>

Just a quick reminder that the next Hacking Society meeting will be this Tuesday starting at 7pm. We will be meeting at the Central MarketHEB Cafe. This is located on N. Lamar between 38th and 45th. We'll be on the outside covered patio, just look for the "Applied Cryptography" book with the red cover.

Hope to see you there!

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James Choate
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james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Mon Jun 15 14:29:24 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:29:24 +0000
Subject: APM: Symbolic Script Programming for Java
Message-ID: <20090615212924.V8DJS.142318.root@hrndva-web20-z01>

http://arxiv.org/abs/0906.2315

 Computer algebra in Java is a promising field of development. It has not yet reached an industrial strength, in part because of a lack of good user interfaces. Using a general purpose scripting language can bring a natural mathematical notation, akin to the one of specialized interfaces included in most computer algebra systems. We present such an interface for Java computer algebra libraries, using scripts available in the JSR 223 framework. We introduce the concept of `symbolic programming' and show its usefulness by prototypes of symbolic polynomials and polynomial rings. 


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James Choate
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james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Tue Jun 16 06:08:38 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 8:08:38 -0500
Subject: APM: Audio Steganography
Message-ID: <20090616130838.A5RQG.150234.root@hrndva-web23-z01>

http://davidkellogg.com/blog/2008/09/05/audio-steganography/

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James Choate
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james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Tue Jun 16 08:38:12 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:38:12 -0500
Subject: APM: Future of Open Source: Collaborative Culture
Message-ID: <20090616153812.X64JH.154139.root@hrndva-web23-z01>

http://www.wired.com/dualperspectives/article/news/2009/06/dp_opensource_wired0616

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Tue Jun 16 13:03:37 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 20:03:37 +0000
Subject: APM: Welcome to the CITIDEL Repository a resource to discover
 Computer Science education and research materials.
Message-ID: <20090616200337.Z6POG.162266.root@hrndva-web01-z01>

http://www.citidel.org/

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Wed Jun 17 08:36:42 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:36:42 -0500
Subject: APM: Hackerspace - Cheyenne
In-Reply-To: <65199c610906162333n5a51c2c2va2938b5ad7e8d353@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20090617153642.TOV1X.180596.root@hrndva-web20-z01>

Glad to meet you Bryce,

To cut right to the chase...

My long term goal is to build a hands-on science museum here in Austin again. I was involved in Discovery Hall back in the 80's but we ended up closing it after about seven years. About the only thing left is The Robot Group,

http://wiki.therobotgroup.org/wiki/Main_Page

I'm currently involved in several other local groups as well:

Austin Perl Mongers
League of Professional System Administrators, Austin
Hacking Society
Austin Python User Group

They all have one major issue, a location to get together.

Over the last few years there has been a rise in the 'hacker space' theme. I see it as a scaled down hands-on science center sort of effort. The first one was the Exploratorium,

http://www.exploratorium.edu/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratorium

I was fortunate in that when we were setting up Discovery Hall to open in 1984 I got to talk to Frank just before he died. He was a real inspiration and one of the guiding principles he left us with was the importance of volunteers and having a shop space that was accessible. The general theme is to build the museum around it so visitors and such can see what is going on and how things get built. The museum infrastructure itself becomes an exhibit.

One of the primary problems I see with the current approach is that the groups work seperately and they don't shop their efforts around to other groups. What I'm hoping to do with Confusion Research Center is create the first distributed hacker space and grow it into a hands-on science museum. Right now I"m using Twine as the medium to build the initial web page and blog space, as well as a good means to advertise and build up a catalog of efforts...

http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

http://www.twine.com/twine/12cddcs5t-28b/hackerspaces

http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu

I'd strongly suggest setting up a specific Twine for your efforts there. I've been one of their beta testers for a while now and think they've got some good ideas. Still needs a lot of work though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twine_(website)

I also run my own domain via DynDNS and some servers at home over a cable modem. It started as a BBS in 1983 and moved to the Internet in 1993,

http://ssz.com/

I chose Cheyenne, WY because I wanted someplace to live other than just Austin and after a couple of years of research I settled on there. I intend to open up an account with one of the local ISPs to get the initial webpage going in January. I don't expect to actually be buying land there until late 2010 or early 2011. I was trying to find some contact in the community that was already working along these lines.

That's a lot of stuff to throw at you so I'll stop here and let you digest it.

TTYL.

---- Bryce Tugwell <btugwell at fusestudios.com> wrote: 
> Would love to talk to you about it. Its late here lets connect tomorrow at
> some point.
> We are very early in establishing a space here in Laramie, but have
> interested people - which is much of what it takes. Email me some time
> tomorrow about what you are thinking - I would love to get involved.
> 
> -- 
> Bryce Tugwell
> Creative Professional: Web Designer & Online Strategist
> 
> Contact Details:
> http://www.brycetugwell.tel
> 
> Office: 703.531.8862
> Mobile: 703.622.5989
> Skype: btugwell

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 18 06:32:27 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:32:27 +0000
Subject: APM: "Research Safari" & my "Experimental RSS::Email Aggregator"
 Twine Project
Message-ID: <20090618133227.E5BQB.197281.root@hrndva-web16-z01>

Hi,

Here is a project I started last year but didn't get very far on because of a job change and a couple of other issues. I was thinking of picking it back up over the summer.

http://www.twine.com/twine/115r3vhx8-n8c/experimental-rss-email-aggregator

The basic idea was to use a RSS feed into an 'aggregator' twine. Then pull feeds from that twine and feed them into a Bayesian spam filter to sort them into the Library of Congress topical heirarchy. Then take this output and put them into the relevant 'topic' twine. The purpose of the aggregator twine was to make the raw feed available for other applications YTBD.

If you're not familiar with alternate uses of Bayesian spam filters, please see...

"Can a spam filter play chess?"

http://dbacl.sourceforge.net/spam_chess.html

Library of Congress Classification Online

http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

http://library.duke.edu/services/instruction/libraryguide/lcclass.html

As part of the hacker space that I'm working on I've decided to start doing a 'Research Safari' the first and third Saturday of each  month. This would consist of meeting at UT on the West Mall in front of the Student Union at 10am. We would then retire to an appropriate library and take over one of the study rooms. We would be so occupied until no later than 6pm working on project planning, problem resolution, and coding. This will start in July and occur on the 4th and 18th. Please pass it around as a "CRC Research Safari" (CRC is Confusion Research Center). The long term goal is to find somebody to help organize it so it can occur every Saturday. There are no real topic or group affiliation limitations and if somebody just wanted to tag along to do homework that's ok also. The only real limitation is we have a lower age/grade limit of 12yrs/6th grade (neither the libraries or our interests are suitable for babysitting, sorry), minors should be accompanied by a parent.

Confusion Research Center:

http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

http://ssz.com/CRC/

Please contact me directly if interested.

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 18 08:49:49 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:49:49 +0000
Subject: APM: Pattern Recognition
Message-ID: <20090618154949.CY58J.203653.root@hrndva-web20-z01>

http://cgm.cs.mcgill.ca/~godfried/teaching/pr-web.html

http://www.cedar.buffalo.edu/~srihari/CSE555/

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Fri Jun 19 06:44:43 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:44:43 +0000
Subject: APM: Bug-killing standards for firmware coding
Message-ID: <20090619134444.UU59D.38584.root@hrndva-web06-z01>

http://www.embedded.com/columns/barrcode/216200567?printable=true

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Fri Jun 19 09:36:09 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:36:09 +0000
Subject: APM: Bit Twiddling...
Message-ID: <20090619163609.G3LI8.42925.root@hrndva-web06-z01>

Since the LED cube got me to thinking at the bit level I thought I'd pass along some other info on 'bit twiddling'...

The first thing you'll want to do is get,

Hackers Delight
Dr. Henry Warren
ISBN 0-201-91465-4

http://hackersdelight.org/

http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?sts=t&tn=Hacker%27s+Delight&x=0&y=0

This is probably the best book written about bit twiddling. A must have if you're going to mix assembly and hardware hacking.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bit+twiddling&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g5

And now a quizz, what does the word 'floobydust' mean and what book made it famous? Using search engines, until at least a week of trying has expired is not allowed.

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Fri Jun 19 09:59:06 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:59:06 +0000
Subject: APM: The "Doctor Who" Model of Open Source
Message-ID: <20090619165907.K51IE.226127.root@hrndva-web07-z01>

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/19/1326254

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Sat Jun 20 12:00:11 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:00:11 -0500
Subject: APM: Why Parrot is Important
Message-ID: <20090620190011.40Y1N.237148.root@hrndva-web24-z01>

http://www.linux-mag.com/cache/7373/1.html

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From mark at marklehmann.com  Sat Jun 20 22:13:38 2009
From: mark at marklehmann.com (Mark Lehmann)
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:13:38 -0500
Subject: APM: Houston Job Opening
Message-ID: <8fa2a6330906202213q134342n9ee5f05324b4c38a@mail.gmail.com>

Hey Mark-



This is Justin Stakutis from JDA.  Thanks again for posting information on
the MySQL DBA role that I had.  I am also going to be needing a Perl
Scripter for an O&G company in Houston for a 6 month + contract.  Probably
going to w/2 from 40-50 / hr, but not sure yet.  Just wanted to let you know
about it in case you have any peers who are keeping an ear to the ground.
Thanks!


Justin Stakutis
Staffing Specialist
JDA Professional Services, Inc.
*Information Technology Staffing Specialist since 1981*
713.548.5474 fax 713.548.5480
www.jdapsi.com

-- 
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512 689-7705 M
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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Sun Jun 21 13:40:37 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:40:37 +0000
Subject: APM: Hidden Features Of Perl, PHP, Javascript, C, C++, C#, Java,
 Ruby, Python, And Others [Collection Of Incredibly Useful Lists]
Message-ID: <20090621204037.M7FO5.252578.root@hrndva-web11-z01>

http://beerpla.net/2009/06/21/hidden-features-of-perl-php-javascript-c-c-c-java-ruby-python-and-others-collection-of-incredibly-useful-lists/

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james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Mon Jun 22 06:38:44 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:38:44 +0000
Subject: APM: Confusion Research Center - "Research Safari" at UT Austin on
 1st and 3rd Saturday each month.
Message-ID: <20090622133844.P4QSX.262911.root@hrndva-web12-z01>

Good Morning,

Confusion Research Center, a hacker space effort in Austin, TX, will be holding one of our first regular services to the technical community in Austin, a "Research Safari". The purpose is to give interested and active persons a means to meet and interact with others who are exploring technology and its impact on our society by hands-on education and engineering.

It will take place on the first and third Saturday of each month. The group will meet at the University of Texas campus in front of the Student Union, West Campus at 10AM. At approximately 10:15 we will proceed to one of several libraries on campus and occupy a study room (where available) until we are done or 6PM arrives, which ever comes first.

Bring your computer, programmable calculator, a notebook, and other supplies and be prepared to spend the time discussing, designing, coding, and reading about your interests and your projects.

Our first meeting will be on July 18th, we'd do the 4th but it's a holiday :) Regular updates will be sent out the Friday a week before a scheduled event (ie July 10th in this case).

NOTE: Parking at and around the UT campus can be quite an issue. We strongly suggest riding the bus...

http://www.capmetro.org/

Please feel free to pass this around and along to any other tech groups or interested parties you're aware of.

Should you need more info please send me an email, first: jameschoate at austin.rr.com

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Tue Jun 23 14:36:53 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:36:53 +0000
Subject: APM: Decompilation
Message-ID: <20090623213653.7W9OI.297185.root@hrndva-web05-z01>

http://www.debugmode.com/dcompile/

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Wed Jun 24 05:51:51 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:51:51 +0000
Subject: APM: Why Plan 9 is not dead
Message-ID: <20090624125152.GE8OC.305444.root@hrndva-web25-z01>

http://www.cs.unm.edu/~fastos/05meeting/PLAN9NOTDEADYET.pdf

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James Choate
jameschoate at austin.rr.com
james.choate at twcable.com
512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Thu Jun 25 08:53:17 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:53:17 +0000
Subject: APM: Small is Beautiful
Message-ID: <20090625155317.5Q314.335679.root@hrndva-web12-z01>

http://synthcode.com/blog/2009/06/Small_is_Beautiful

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegance

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Fri Jun 26 07:02:24 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 9:02:24 -0500
Subject: APM: TRG Maker SIG - Intro to Soldering & Lego Mindstorms (using
	NQC)
Message-ID: <20090626140224.EE1N2.346775.root@hrndva-web23-z01>

With the support of The Robot Group board and general member support we are glad to announce the beginning of a new  SIG. It will be focused on a variety of topics and skills, using hands-on techniques to build mastery. The group will meet on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of each month from 7pm to 10pm. Location will vary and should be checked either on the TRG mailing list or visit their webpage, http://wiki.therobotgroup.org/wiki/Main_Page.


July 9 & 23:


7pm - 8pm

We will focus on the basic mechanics of soldering. We will be using the following document as the basis of this discussion. It does contain a small toolset and if you're budget will allow we strongly suggest you get your own tools. However, we will have sufficient supplies to provide everyone opportunity to explore their new skills. It is expected that this series will last 4-6 weeks in total depending on group progress.

http://www.physics.unc.edu/~fredb/techresource/docs/soldering.pdf


8pm - 10pm

I will forward a list of Lego Mindstorms and "Not Quite C" (NQC) links in a follow up email. It is suggested that you have a 3-ring binder, writing instruments, and a laptop running Windows of some flavor. We have at least two RCX bricks and that should be sufficient for the class. If you have your own please bring it so we can break into smaller groups. We will be building a standard tracked crawler as our hardware testbed.

If you have questions or concerns please contact me directly, or post to the list.

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James Choate
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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Sun Jun 28 07:28:29 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 9:28:29 -0500
Subject: APM: The v1 Strawberry release of Sugar on a Stick
Message-ID: <20090628142829.8G5UB.374628.root@hrndva-web01-z01>

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Sugar_on_a_Stick

Sugar Labs offers ubiquitous access to Sugar in a USB (Universal Serial Bus) flash memory drive (stick). The Sugar on a Stick project gives children access to their Sugar on any computer in their environment with just a USB memory stick. Taking advantage of the Fedora LiveUSB, it's possible to store everything you need to run Sugar on a single USB memory stick (minimum size 1GB). This small USB device can boot into the Sugar learning platform on different computers at home, at school, or at an after-school program, bypassing the software on the those computers. In fact, Sugar on a Stick will work even if the computer does not have a hard-drive. With Sugar on a Stick, the learning experience is the same on any computer: at school, at home, at the library, or an after-school center.

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James Choate
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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Mon Jun 29 08:44:03 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:44:03 -0500
Subject: APM: Austin Perl Mongers - Wed. July 8 7-9 pm
Message-ID: <20090629154403.N8YA8.390768.root@hrndva-web21-z01>

Greetings Mongers,

It's getting to that time of month when we need to get together and discuss our plans for trials, tribulations, and world domination through Perl!

Mangia's Pizza
12001 N. MoPac Expy
At the corner of MoPac, Burnet, and Gracy Farms
The shibboleth this month will be a Perl book and a "APM" camel graphic

Please be so kind as to pass this invite around to any others who may be interested in things Perl-tastic.

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James Choate
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512-657-1279
www.ssz.com
http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Tue Jun 30 15:25:31 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:25:31 +0000
Subject: APM: CrypTool
Message-ID: <20090630222532.V78R3.423697.root@hrndva-web01-z01>

http://cryptool.com/

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James Choate
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http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Tue Jun 30 15:28:37 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:28:37 +0000
Subject: APM: Programming and Logic Puzzles
Message-ID: <20090630222837.9C1BF.423746.root@hrndva-web01-z01>

http://www.billthelizard.com/2009/06/programming-and-logic-puzzles.html

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James Choate
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http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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From jameschoate at austin.rr.com  Tue Jun 30 15:31:52 2009
From: jameschoate at austin.rr.com (jameschoate at austin.rr.com)
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:31:52 +0000
Subject: APM: Programming in Lua (first edition)
Message-ID: <20090630223152.L4GNU.423781.root@hrndva-web01-z01>

http://www.lua.org/pil/index.html

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James Choate
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http://www.twine.com/twine/1128gqhxn-dwr/solar-soyuz-zaibatsu
http://www.twine.com/twine/1178v3j0v-76w/confusion-research-center

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