These are my recent Pin​board​.in links:

• Nelson’s Weblog: tech /​ foss4g-​​2011-​​trip-​​report

  “…The rest of this post is a link dump of some of the peo­ple and things I saw at the con­fer­ence. I’m no “cura­tor,” just a typ­ist, sorry for the lack of organization.”
  
  geo software-​​development map­ping resources

• main — katt83project

  col­lec­tion of scripts and other tools in sup­port of the Dis­trib­uted Proof­read­ers workflow
  
  Distributed-​​Proofreaders script­ing toolkit

• Presto Chango | Futil­ity Closet

  “It will be observed that this square when turned upside down is still magic.”
  
  mathematical-​​recreations amus­ing nudge-​​targets

• Ruth Kinna on Guy Aldred | berfrois

  “Guy Aldred is an obscure but impor­tant fig­ure in the his­tory of social­ist thought. He some­times crops up in his­to­ries of British social­ism, syn­di­cal­ist and labour organ­i­sa­tion, but rarely in dis­cus­sions of social­ist the­ory. His uncom­pro­mis­ing com­mit­ment to activism per­haps explains this neglect: as Aldred him­self argued in a com­men­tary on British anar­chism, ide­olo­gies are too often shaped by the philo­soph­i­cal reflec­tions of edu­cated elites, leav­ing the thoughts of work­ing class auto­di­dacts who spend a life­time stand­ing on street cor­ners, pro­pa­gan­dis­ing, ignored. Per­haps, too, his evan­gel­i­cal roots make his work an acquired taste: Aldred writes with moral cer­tainty and con­vic­tion that leaves lit­tle room for debate. Most bio­graph­i­cal accounts sug­gest that he was not an easy man to get along with and though he did not lack organ­i­sa­tional skill, he found co-​​operation dif­fi­cult. The plea­sure he took in the pun of his name – ‘the man they all dread’ – was indica­tive of the prob­lem. Yet Aldred’s ideas are com­pelling and the judge­ments he made in his early life were con­sis­tently rev­o­lu­tion­ary, lib­er­tar­ian, anar­chis­tic and usu­ally good. Aldred cam­paigned against mar­riage and for birth con­trol in sup­port of women’s lib­er­a­tion before the First World War; he encour­aged con­sci­en­tious objec­tion in both world con­flicts and pub­li­cised the vin­dic­tive abuse that COs suf­fered for tak­ing their stance. In all his early writ­ings, he ele­vated the strug­gles of com­mon peo­ple – from reli­gious non-​​conformists to con­victs. Draw­ing on the reports of his com­rades, Ethel Mac­Don­ald (1909−1960) and Jane (Jenny) Patrick (1884−1971), he sup­ported the 1936 anar­chist rev­o­lu­tion in Spain [1] and until his later life, he con­sis­tently opposed the dog­ma­tism of ortho­dox Marx­ism, whether it was expressed in the the­o­ret­i­cal pieties of the Euro­pean social demo­c­ra­tic move­ment or, after the Russ­ian Rev­o­lu­tion, in the cold, phys­i­cal bru­tal­ity of the Stal­in­ist regime. The pas­sion with which he advanced these causes cap­tures the spirit of an opti­mistic, utopian, roman­tic cur­rent of social­ism whose hopes and ideals, squeezed by social democ­racy on one side and state social­ism on the other, were ulti­mately dis­ap­pointed but which remain inspiring.”
  
  anar­chism his­tory biog­ra­phy social­ism