Wave Hub: Hawaii

In Hawaii, where we are blessed with the second-best wave climate in the world, Wave Energy Converters could supply all the power needs of neighbor islands and 80 percent of Oahu's.

Educational Software

[1/19/09 via frwr-news] - MemoryLifter is a scientific memorization tool based upon the work of Ebbinghaus and Leitner. The FREE MemoryLifter software enables you to lift any kind of information into your Long Term Memory. Many clever, scientific and intelligent features speed up and enhance the memorization process to make your brain the strongest organ in your body.

[8/25/07] FMSLogo is a free implementation of a computing environment called Logo, which is an interactive programming language that is simple, powerful, and best of all fun. [via frwr-news, 8/18/07] (see also Kid's Programming Language)

[7/5/07] Question Writer - Personal Edition is software that lets you make your own multiple-choice quizzes. It's free for personal use, easy to use and even a beginner can create high quality quizzes. [from frwr-news, 2/10/07]

[4/18/07] Q & A is a freeware flashcard program that is simple to use, yet customizable in terms of font, color, and alignment. It includes helpful features such as an intuitive deck editing mode, deck shuffle option, and the ability to import and export decks so you can share decks that you have created with others. [from frwr-news, 4/16/07]

[12/27/06] Educational games from BlackRat Studios [frwr-news, 12/26/06]

chess: man vs. machine

[12/12/06] Although it received little mention in the popular press, Vladimir Kramnik, the world's reigning chess champion, was defeated last week 4-2 by the computer Deep Fritz, in a best-of-six-game match.

The defeat was not really that surprising. When Kramnik last met Deep Fritz four years ago, he battled the computer to a 4-4 tie. Since then, however, the computer has only gotten better. In fact, since 2002, Kramnik's "Elo" rating -- which measures the strength of a chess player -- has dropped, while Deep Fritz (an improvement from IBM's (NYSE: IBM) famous Deep Blue program) increased the number of positions it could calculate per second from 2.7 million to 8 million.

Thirty Pieces of Software

Battle of the Thirty

What follows is a list of thirty pieces of software that are the cream of the crop of open source software for Windows. Not only is every piece of it free, almost all of them directly replace expensive software packages.

1. Firefox
2. Thunderbird
3. Sunbird
4. Abiword
5. OpenOffice
6. ClamWin
7. Gaim
8. BitTorrent
9. GIMPShop
10. Gnucleus
11. VLC Media Player
12. Juice
13. Audacity
14. RSSOwl
15. Filezilla
16. Keynote
17. MusikCube
18. Handbrake
19. X-Chat 2
20. KeePass
21. TrueCrypt
22. PDFCreator
23. Freemind
24. NASA Worldwind
25. Notepad2
26. HealthMonitor
27. Workrave
28. GanttPV
29. GnuCash
30. True Combat: Elite

[via frwr-news]