Sean's Links

Shorinji Kempo

I practice Shorinji Kempo with the South Bay Branch and the Caltech Branch. Contact me if you have any questions. New members are welcome.

The Seattle Branch has a page of online study resources. Neal Ziring has made a page of Shorinji Kempo Japanese words and phrases.

Music: Industrial, Gothic, Synthpop, etc.

Here are some good web'zines and resources.

All Music Guide, Musicfolio, The New Empire, Wrapped In Wire, In Music We Trust, Electronic Surveillance, Starvox, Sonic Boom.

Humor

• Red Meat is a pretty cool comic strip.
• Ditto for Derf City.
• Get your news from the Onion.

Math and Science Ebooks

Some of these sites even have links to me. How exciting is that?!

• Wikibooks, the free textbook project.
• Math Resources - math related news, books and web resources.
• The Assayer has reviews and links to free electronic books.
• George Cain has links to free electronic math textbooks.
• Hogan Publishing has free electronic books. It features science, technical, computer and internet books.
• Mathematics on the Web is an AMS web site that has links to free electronic books.
• The Online Books Page has a large directory of online books.
• Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics is an online encyclopedia of mathematics.
• Keoz6.comScience Vertical Portal

Computer Related

• 7-Zip is a file archiver with highest compression ratio.
• Blitz++ is a class library for scientific computing. It has nice template libraries for arrays and vectors.
• CGAL, (Computational Geometry Algorithms Library), Full featured library.
• Subversion is the open standard for version control. If you do any kind of coding I recommend that you use it. (It's easy to switch from CVS to subversion.)
• doxygen is a great tool for documenting C or C++ code. It generates HTML and LaTeX files and man pages. With almost no extra effort you can generate nice manuals. This program is a must if others use your code.
• Dvorak is a keyboard layout that is much more efficient than qwerty. If you are a hacker who is not using Dvorak, you are wasting time.
• gnuplot is a useful program for scientific plotting.
• Here is an HTML tutorial.
• L^AT_EX is the coolest of all typesetting and documentation systems. The L^AT_EX Navigator is a good place to find resources. I recommend using emacs with the AUCT_EX and X-symbol packages to edit the source.
• L^AT_EX2HTML automatically converts L^AT_EX documents to HTML.
• Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
• xfig is a useful X Windows drawing program.

Other Useful

• Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary