Analog2Digital - A Primer on Bill Peña

Commercial-Free Since 1993

	Designing with JavaScript O'Reilly's DwJS Site You can grab script examples and sample chapters from my good ol' publisher, ORA. Amazon's DwJS page Where you can read reviews of my book, and, of course, buy it!
	Recent Articles Cross-browser Style Objects An article on XBStyle, one of the cross-browser APIs available from Netscape/Mozilla, and creating DHTML compatible with Netscape 4 and the latest 6.0 browsers. Industrial-Strength Webcasting with mod_mp3 An introduction to the Apache module that will let you stream MP3s directly through your web server, and syndicate your playlists via RSS.
	Academic / Theoretical Hypercubes: A Biography My thesis, a 4-dimensional hyperfiction, later adapted to Flash and into a gallery exhibit. You can read the four chapters separately and semi-sequentially by clicking on the following links: Feet, Mind, Lust, Heart Case Studies of Hacker Resistence An introduction to and study (never quite finished) of the "hacker" ethos on the Internet, from its beginnings in 1960's MIT culture, to current hacktivism within the world's largest media company, AOL/Time-Warner.
	Flash Coming Soon.

	Linux Mandrake Linux Debian GNU/Linux Slashdot GNOME Ximian
	Hypertext Eastgate Cyberspace and Critical Theory
	Weblogs MetaFilter CamWorld RabbitBlog My Bong Runs Linux memepool

Slashdot.org : Still the premier source of news about open-source software and issues.
My Bong Runs Linux : It's tech, it's humor, it's a streaming talk show and a weblog, it's done by some of my friends. Ahem. Just check it out, it's funny.
GNU : A chapter from a project in process; this is my primer on what Gnu is, and why it is important, as well as some exemplary projects like Linux and Gnutella.
Mozilla : The open source web engine from the ashes of Netscape, it's not ust a browser, it's a platform. You can skin it, you can embed it, you can use it's modular components in different applications, you can build apps in XML/CSS/JavaScript within it, and it's supporting more freakin' standards than I can count.
Linux Mandrake : In my opinion, the best Linux distribution - optimized for Pentiums (II, III, MMX, etc.), can be installed from Windows for new users, based on Red Hat, and always cutting-edge.
Debian : The most politically-correct distribution; it's GNU/Linux, it strictly only includes Free Software, and it comes with billions of packages.

Hypertext and Critical Theory Web : My old stomping grounds at Brown - for which I'm extremely grateful - where I learned about non-linearity from George Landow, Robert Coover, Mark Amerika, Robert Arellano and a bunch of brilliant students. I also taught a few ... ;)
Eastgate : Hypertext isn't just the Web; check out Storyspace, a hypertext writing system that's spawned a bunch of interesting, though sometimes more pretentious than a drunk Mr. Belvedere. Great way to learn hypertext, though, and much more flexible for text than HTML.

Blogger : The definitive starting point for creating your own 'blog, whether you are a novice or expert web slinger. Use it to create front pages like mine.
Blog*Spot : Blogger's (or rather, Pyra's) hosting site for 'blogs; crank one out, stick it up, see if you like it.
Metafilter : The "community weblog," where you get up your karma - no, it's not as hardcore about karma as Slashdot - post on the page, and trash each other's choices, or so it seems.
Camworld : The most professional personal blog, Camworld is one of my favorite links. Cameron works at Alphanumerica, where they create great Mozilla apps like Pacman, Aphrodite and Theme Creator.