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A cheap imitation of a blog, trying to keep track of things that I find interesting on any given day.

2009-12-29

MandelBulb (thanks Patrick!)
- 3D fractal rendering programs
- zoomable rendered Mandelbulb image
Microsoft SeaDragon smooth zoomable very-large-image viewer
Microsoft Pivot entity collection analyser
Tamás Nepusz's Last.fm artist similarity rendering
- The idea of a 3D explorable version of this visualization (and others)

GovTrack.org, a site that tracks the law-making process for the US; what government should really be like...
Copyright-Watch, tracking changes in that ailing law worldwide.
EFF "Take-down Hall of Shame", highlighting some pretty amusing copyright infringement claims.
Photoshop Disasters - probably more fun when it was first created, it's still quite entertaining (and a really good place to go before you start thinking of retouching photos for public consumption).

TrueCrypt, software-based disk encryption that can be used on several operating systems and, to a certain extent, on removable media in "portable mode" (requiring admin rights on a windows machine, limited to 2GB volumes on Windows Fat32 drives) or
FreeOTFE, software-based disk encryption for Windows, also limited by Fat32 and admin rights but with "Explorer" program available for non-Administrator use.
Hardware-encrypted USB drives in general

Windows AIK, enabling you to create USB boot disks really really painlessly (assuming you have a Vista machine handy for the partitioning).

Tableau, a visualization-oriented BI tool attempting to combine the ease of Excel with the graphical power and interactivity of something like GapMinder.org

WakeMate, a little gadget that would track your movements at night and help you understand sleep patterns... maybe?

Ambient Music Player, the only (surviving?) open-source media player for Android as far as I can tell.