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tree view The links below are sites that we use frequently or find interesting.
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Paper Toys
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Print these out, cut them out, build them. Cool paper models.
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Reality Sculptors
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The almost famous Patrick Salsbury's pages. He's got a lot of great info ranging from hydroponics, dome homes, and saving the world. He also runs several mailing lists.
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GnuAE - open source solar/wind design software
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GnuAE is a GNOME/GTK compliant GUI for designing photovoltaic and wind powered houses with compliance to the National Electrical Code. As GnuAE has a database of components and current average prices, it can help you judge the total cost of a system by experimenting with different options like using a propane or DV fridge, or more or less reserve days or hours of sun.
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SchoolForge
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Schoolforge's mission is to unify independent organizations that advocate, use, and develop open resources for primary and secondary education.
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Kite Aerial Photography
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Great pictures from a kite's point of view.
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Alternative Energy Store
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They sell lots of stuff, like: Compost Toilets, Deep Cycle Batteries, Inverters, Charge Contollers, Solar Panels, Solar Water Pumps, Windmills and lots more...
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NASA paper models
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NASA paper models to cut out and build.
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Firewall Builder
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An open source gui firewall tool that can speak ip tables, pix, ipfw, and more...
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Vancouver Food Co-op
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The beginings of a food co-op in Vancouver, Wa
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American Ingenuity Domes
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Dome home kits.
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American Bamboo Society
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Lots of info about bamboo.
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Freecycle
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Join a local freecycle mailing list and find stuff for free, or offer up some stuff you don't need anymore.
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gumstix
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Really tiny Linux computers
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ibiblio
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An open source type library. LOTS of content that is in the public domain has been put here.
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ICP Global Technologies
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Solar technologies. PV battery chargers for vehicles and backup power.
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Science Fiction Paper Models
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Really nice (hard to build) paper models. Star Wars, Star Trek, and more.
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Low-Impact Living Institute Info Sheets
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Some good info from LILI.
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Mirador
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Mirador Community Store is a store in Portland, Oregon. Mirador offers vegan and vegetarian cookbooks, "uncookbooks" for raw foodists, special diet books such as for food allergies, health books, juicers, dehydrators, canning equipment, bread making supplies, sprouting equipment, herbal tinctures, flower essences, homeopathics, candles, massage products, essential oils, goods from recycled products, and more.
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Multi-Facetted Homes
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Sustainably grown termite-resistant woods - Beautiful home designs, Redwood and Cedar, Panelized home shells go up in one day.
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People's Food Co-Op
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A place to get food in Portland Oregon.
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Fraggle Rock Song Lyrics
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If you know the Fraggles, then you gotta learn the songs. If you don't know the Fraggles, think Muppets underground in caves singing and having fun.
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Meta-Efficient
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"A Guide To The Most Efficient Things In The World"
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SolAqua
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Solar water purification system.
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The Picture of Everything
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This picture is amazing. I don't know that everything is in it, but there's definately a lot. Neato.
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Unirac
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Solar PV panel mounting hardware. Ground and roof based.
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Artist: Vik Muniz
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This guy is doing some really interesting stuff. A nicely presented gallery of some key work as well.
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Wacky Warnings
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A sign of how sue-happy people are. These warning labels are pretty funny. This site is run by M-LAW. Formed as a non-partisan, grassroots organization, Michigan Lawsuit Abuse Watch (M-LAW) serves as a public watchdog over our court system. M-LAW's goal is to eliminate the many negative effects that lawsuit abuse has on families, job providers and communities. Excessive litigation has robbed consumers of needed products and services and has added a hidden "lawsuit tax" onto countless other products and services.
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Coral: The NYU Distribution Network
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CoralCDN is a decentralized, self-organizing, peer-to-peer web-content distribution network. CoralCDN leverages the aggregate bandwidth of volunteers running the software to absorb and dissipate most of the traffic for web sites using the system. In so doing, CoralCDN replicates content in proportion to the content's popularity, regardless of the publisher's resources---in effect democratizing content publication.
To use CoralCDN, a content publisher---or someone posting a link to a high-traffic portal---simply appends .nyud.net:8090 to the hostname in a URL. Through DNS redirection, oblivious clients with unmodified web browsers are transparently redirected to nearby Coral web caches.
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Brilliant Button Maker by LucaZappa.com
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A place to create those little buttons you see on pages all over the place, mostly on blogs.
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CSS Beginner's Guide - HTML Dog
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Good site to get started with CSS.
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Mars Pictures! - Malin Space Science Systems
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A site full of mars pictures. Neato!
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HENNESSY HAMMOCKS: ultra-light line of jungle hammocks, ultra-comfortable camping hammock/chair/tent combo
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This site sells a great looking set of hammocks. They basically replace your tent, sleeping bag, pillow, etc... Really interesting way to camp.
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Everyday Goods
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We here at everyday goods strive to make quality handmade clothgoods that are useful, well, every day. Stay tuned here for a selection of cloth grocery bags in an array of colors and prints. Did you know many cities and stores are considering taxing or charging for plastic and paper bags? How about the horror of grocery bag breakage!? With cloth there's no more worrying about getting heavy items double-bagged. Our bags can hold much more weight than paper or plastic. Not to mention that cloth bags are much better for the environment and you don't have to worry about recycling.
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CSS Tutorial
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A good walk through of some basic CSS concepts.
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Sharetone Plone Skin
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This is amazing. It's like a desktop OS (window manager) type view of a Plone site. With little close bozes and minimization and everything. AJAX makes the web amazing.
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geocoder.us: a free US address geocoder
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This looks like a great service. At some point I'll need it, I'm sure.
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Salinas Hearing Aid Center
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My dad uses hearing aids and he says that Gary Gams at Salinas Hearing Aid Center is great.
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Gliffy.com - Create and share diagrams online.
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Online shared diagramming software. Looks interesting.