Free online biodiversity encyclopedia, with hundreds of thousands of new images and specimen data as to build a web page for each of the 1.9 million recognized species.
The History Commons contains summaries of events, which are published on the website in the format of dynamic timelines. These timelines can be filtered by investigative project, topic, or entity (e.g., a person, organization, or corporation).
Wikibooks is dedicated to developing and disseminating free, open content textbooks and other classroom texts. We currently host 5666 textbook modules, in various stages of development, from those needing a lot of work to those that are nearly perfect.
Decompilation is a ProgramTransformation by which a high-level source code for an executable program is discovered. Decompilation is the inverse of ProgramCompilation.
a taggable, reusable, non-linear personal web notebook, a modification by JodyFoo of JeremyRuston's OpenSourceLicensed TiddlyWiki. The modification adds non-hierarchical organisation of Tiddlers through tags.
a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. (not an offline wiki editor)
an open, free directory of species. This will cover animalia, plantae, fungi, bacteria, archaea, protista and all other forms of life to the extent that our users allow us.
game programming tutorials and source code for a variety of languages and platforms. Also, because this is a wiki, you are encouraged to contribute your knowledge and help the repository grow!
a community driven resource for open source software. Try starting a page about your favorite project, syndicating a blog for a topic, or browsing through tags people have added to projects or pages.
a knowledgebase of Microsoft Help-related information, initially created by the MicrosoftHelpMVPs and maintained by the Help authoring community and you.
an Open Source application ideal for turning your PC in a very advanced Multi-Media Center / HTPC. MediaPortal allows you to listen to your favorite music & radio, watch your video's and DVD's, view, schedule and record live TV and much more.
a free MicroContent WikiWikiWeb created by JeremyRuston and a busy Community of independent developers. It's written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any ServerSide logic.
Cheats for Xbox 360,Xbox,PlayStation 3,PlayStation 2,PlayStation 1,Sony PSP,Nintendo Wii,GameCube,Nintendo 64,Nintendo DS,GameBoy Advance,GameBoy Color,Dreamcast and PC Games
The six pillars of Wikia's OpenServing offering are: FREE software, FREE bandwidth, FREE storage, FREE computing power, FREE content over the Internet, and GIVING AWAY 100% of the ad inventory and revenue to bloggers and website owners who partner with
to provide a space for various community RPG projects. This will include: people creating their own game systems; people communally creating game settings; and people creating collections of resources for their favorite games.
This is the text present in Chapter 11 of H.G. Wells's The Time Machine as serialized in the New Review. It was cut from the book but later published on its own as a short story, "The Grey Man."
a free library providing windowing and widgets for graphics APIs / engines where such functionality is not natively available, or severely lacking. The library is object orientated, written in C++.
a research and learning project about flowering plants. The research component is aimed at creating a language for discussing the bloom times of wildflowers and other plants that is neutral in respect to climate, region, and hemisphere.
a repository for code examples that go beyond the traditional "Hello World!" example. A variety of tasks are listed, and visitors to this site are invited to solve the tasks in the language of their choice.
A simple test of whether something is only incidentally sci-fi, or not sci-fi at all despite being in a sci-fi setting, is whether the story could take place in a known society without changing its message.
Our society is organized around a scarcity economy to such an extent that many people believe 'scarcity' and 'economy' mean the same thing. Even if it were true, different economies deal with differently scarce things.
is short for Replicating Rapid-prototyper. It is a practical self-copying. Complete open-source instructions and plans are published on this website for zero cost and available to everyone so, if you want to make one yourself
"The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations."
"Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
* No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself."
"I have found no better expression than "religious" for confidence in the rational nature of reality, insofar as it is accessible to human reason. Whenever this feeling is absent, science degenerates into uninspired empiricism."
"It should be borne in mind that electrical energy obtained by harnessing a waterfall is probably fifty times more effective than fuel energy. Since this is the most perfect way of rendering the sun's energy available, the direction of the future material
The SI unit measuring magnetic flux density or magnetic induction (commonly known as the magnetic field B\,), the tesla, was named in his honour (at the Conférence Générale des Poids et Mesures, Paris, 1960).
Commercial games released as freeware are games that, in their original license, were not considered freeware, but were re-released at a later date with a freeware license, sometimes as publicity for a forthcoming sequel or compilation release.
Mentoring doesn't mean that we will be making a tutorial. We will point you in the right direction, but you will have to study topics we mention on your own. For example, you need to be able to read assembly language. We will point you to assembly language tutorials and mention particular points you should study. You can add your own insights and links to this Wiki.
introduced by Marco Dorigo in 1992 in his PhD thesis, is a probabilistic technique for solving computational problems which can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs. They are inspired by the behavior of ants in finding paths from the colony to food.
a digital signal processing (DSP) technique for identifying frequency components of a signal, published by Dr. Gerald Goertzel in 1958. While the general Fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm computes evenly across the bandwidth of the incoming signal, the Goertzel algorithm looks at specific, predetermined frequency.
Whilst the puzzles here are mainly lateral thinking puzzles, they range from the image type puzzle shown here, through to riddles and other puzzles. Overall, they provide somewhere to exercise the brain muscle and have fun.
Now 'Common Practice' got divided in patterns and idioms, jeez... One thing is to intelligently describe something another is to over-complicate and over engineer stuff out without creating added value.