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Welcome to MMS, on Lake
Cochituate in Natick,
Massachusetts! We empower our clients and the community in which we
live. If you live near us, visit the monthly FOSS User Group that we lead in
Natick.
This is not a one-topic web site; it's more
like the stacks of your library, with a guide desk (below). We
offer you hundreds of links, Techie
and Otherwise,
including our Events Calendar,
our Photo
Gallery
and our updated-twice-monthly
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Who are we? |
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"MMS, Forth, Linux, and Fotoxx" (October
2011 talk) |
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MMS
offers cost-effective alternative Software Solutions
for your needs |
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Why GNU/Linux/FOSS? |
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Linux/Unix/FOSS
Resources |
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Subscribe to the MMS FOSS/Linux e-mail
list! |
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MMS FOSS
(Free, Open-Source
Software) talk |
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FOSS User
Group at Natick Community/Senior Center |
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On-Line Tour of Ubuntu Linux |
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MMS offers Custom Applications in
MS-Access (Windows)
and
MySQL (Windows and Linux). |
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MMS offers Website design and development. |
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MMS offers cost-effective PC Hardware selection and maintenance. |
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MMS
Client
Messages - Killer
shopping deals and more, for $25/year. |
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MMSFORTH and Forth books, Forth Links for programmers |
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Ordering: Shipping/Handling, Payment, etc. |
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Internet Resources and Threats |
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And Other
Threatening Computer Technologies |
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Computer History |
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Computer Tidbits |
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Techie
Comics/Humor |
Or just browse our stacks
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Bicycle
and Pedestrian: MassDOT's "Go
By Bike" brochure, Greater Boston Cycling and
Walking Map, "Dangerous
By Design" (with Pedestrian
Fatalities map), The Cochituate
Rail Trail, Natick
Bicycle and Pedestrian
Advisory Committee (NBPAC), Massachusetts
Bicycle
and Pedestrian Advisory Board (MABPAB),  Massachusetts
Recreational Trail Advisory Board (MARTAB), Commonwealth Connections initiative,
Survey of
Bicycle
Transportation Routes in the Boston Metrowest Area (John Allen,
1993), Natick
Open Space Plan (and map),
Natick
Walking Tours, Planning
Livable
Communities (Framingham blog), Road
Hazards for Bicyclists and Pedestrians, Designing
Cities for People: The Return of Bicycles (Chap. 6 of Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization,
by Les Brown); Conversation
With An Engineer, Street Project (also, full
NIMBY version) |
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Environment: They didn’t have the Green thing
back then, Natick
Natural
Science Park (1955), Rain Gardens, Cochituate
State Park, the Lake
Cochituate
Watershed, Pegan
Cove Park, Henry Wilson
History Trail, Eurasian
Water-Milfoil, Framingham
Wellfield
Proposal May Harm Lake Cochituate and Sudbury River, Boston’s water: public or private?, Cancer-Incidence
studies, MassPike
Tolls, Light
Pollution, The
Future of Lighting, Energy-Saving,
Carbon-Footprint
Calculators, Noise
Pollution (Boston Scientific helipad), Plan
B
4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization
(Les Brown; free eBook), Unsustainable
Energy Future (International Energy Agency, Nov. 2011), The
Ultimate Zombie Litmus Test (Limits-To-Growth video), The
Myth Of Smart Growth, How Many
People Should The
Earth
Support? (Ross McCluney, 2004), Enough is Enough
(report of the Steady State Economic Conference, June
19th, 2010), Seven
Billion and Growing: A 21st Century Perspective on Population
(Global Agenda Council on Population Growth, 2011), Getting to Zero Waste, The
Death of Recycling (Paul Palmer, 2007), The Story Of Stuff (Annie
Leonard, 2007), The Story Of Bottled
Water (Annie Leonard, 2010), Population, Porous
Pavement, Precautionary
Principle, Rachel's Democracy
& Health News, Recycling
a Carling Brewery), Tracking
the Gulf Oil Spill, Plenty
More
Fish in the Sea?, Interactive
Map of Coastal Eutrophication & Hypoxia, Understanding
public complacency about climate change (MIT, 2007), Climate Hot Map (Union of
Concerned Scientists, 2011), The
Last Great Global Warming (Scientific American, 2011), Global
Warming's Terrifying New Math (Bill
McKibben; Rolling Stone, July 2012), Climate
Change statement (American Meteorological Society, August 2012), The Next
President’s Inaugural Speech (If Only…) (CASSE, Sept. 2012; Dick Miller's comment), Global
Warming Deniers and Their Proven Strategy of Doubt, The
Fossil Fuel Resistance (Bill McKibben; Rolling Stone, April 2013) |
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Getting Personal: Fun with Dick and Jill, Family History, 1960 Songfests, 2012 Raphaels Visit Boston, Photo Gallery, Sunnyside, "Remember When", Hunter College Elementary School Class of 1947, T.V. State Of Maine, and Morgan the Wonder Cat | |||||||||
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Folk Songs: Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads, Mudcat Cafe/Digital Tradition, The Contemplator's Folk Music Site (and more!), Folk Music Index, Taylor's Traditional Tunebook, The Traditional Ballad Index, Traditional Music Library, Music of the American Revolution, Musica International, NEFFA, David Ingle Obituary | |||||||||
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General Look-Up: RefDesk, Newspapers, Wikipedia, The Internet Archive and Wayback Machine,
Encyclopedia of the Earth, How Stuff Works, Stack Exchange, Khan Academy |
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Jill Knits | |||||||||
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Nature: Bird Songs, Bird
Watching, The Crows Project,
American Society of Crows
and Ravens, Hawk Watch (including Mount Wachusett),
Bryozoa, Chipmunk
Patrol, Giant
Cockroaches, Kettle
Ponds, Walden and Thoreau, Knowing
Our Place (Ron McAdow) |
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Opinion: Money
Is Not Wealth, 46
Trillion Reasons To Evolve Society Right Now, TED Talks, Senseless
Census 2010, FactCheck.org, The
Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense, Snow
Removal, We're
Monkeys, Cooking
Up
Quite A Story (Richard Wrangham, 2002), The
Coming Technological Singularity; How To Survive In The Post-Human Era
(Vernor Vinge, 1993), A
Singularity In Time (Peter Russell, 2006), Eco-Apocalypse:
A Class Act (Michael Parenti, 1996), Why The
Future Doesn't Need Us (Bill Joy; Wired, April 2000), Corporate Personhood, The
Three Tasks: YHWH’s Answer To Environmentalist Critics? (Ferren
MacIntyre, 1998); Church
of
the Pristine Rock: Genesis (Buzz Bloom, 2003), On Believing
(and Science; Paul Lutus, 2005), Zeitgeist:
The Movie (Peter Joseph, 2007), The
Symmetry Principle (Paul Lutus, 2008), Measuring
Progress (including remarks
by Robert Kennedy, 1968), A Time-Lapse Map of
Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945, Beyond
Conspiracy Theory: Patterns of High Crime in American Government
(Lance deHaven-Smith; American
Behavioral Scientist, Feb. 2010), OccupyNatick.org, Red
State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote The Way
They Do (Andrew Gelman, 2009), Pull
The Plug On E-Voting (Bruce O'Dell, 2006), The
Triumph Of Ignorance (George Monbiot. 2008), On
Newspapers and Google (Groklaw, 2009), Is
American Nonviolence Possible?, Towards
A Philosophy Of Love (Mary Scriver/"PrairieMary", 2010), Theory
of the Origin, Evolution, and Nature of Life (Erik Andrulis, 2011),
America's
Deficit Attention Disorder (David Korten, 2012), Crime and Privacy (Scott Adams, 2013) |
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Language: Esperanto,
Libera Esperanto-Libro (Free
Esperanto Book), Komputeko (Computer
Terminology Collection), Phrasebooks, Google
Translate (word, text,
URL), Yahoo
Translation, Medieval Writing,
Web
Design Is
95% Typography, Omniglot
(writing
systems and languages of the world), Strunk's "The Elements Of Style",
Common
English-Language Usage Misconceptions, On-line Etymology Dictionary, The alt.usage.english FAQ, Urban Dictionary, Wordnik. Internet Anagram Server |
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The Printed Word: The
Book of Boston (free eBook), The British Library,
US Library of Congress. The
Devil's Dictionary, The
Notebooks of Lazarus Long (from "Time Enough For Love", 1973, by
Robert Heinlein), Poems, Rudyard
Kipling, Zarathushtra
(Ardeshir Mehta; free eBook), Incunabula,
Sacred
Texts, World Digital Library, RefDesk, Bartleby.com,
Project
Gutenberg |
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Science: Boston-Area
Science Lectures, Mandelbrot
Fractals, The
Best Mind Since Einstein (Richard Feynman Physics Lectures and
Videos), The
Oil We
Eat;
Following the food chain back to Iraq, Thermodynamics
of the Corn-Ethanol Biofuel
Cycle (Tad Patzek, 2005), The
Imminent Crash Of The Oil Supply, We're
still on the slippery slope to peak oil, Peak,
What Peak? (Tad Patzek, 2012), The
Great Food Crisis of 2011 (Les Brown), How
The Human Population Explosion Defies Nature (Gail Tverberg, 2012),
Is
Sugar Toxic?, Toxicology
Of Chemical
Mixtures (Emily Monosson, 2005), A
Fuller
Explanation, Nanotechnology:
Engines of Creation, The
Engines of Our
Ingenuity, Lavender
Mist II, Lakes and Oceans
(xkcd), Ocean
Trench, Gravity Wells (xkcd), Mission To Mars |
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Weather, Local: (Natick
Current/10-Day/Hourly/Radar, Very
Local (press Play to animate), NWS
Northeast Radar, HazeCam
(north from Blue Hill, including
Natick and Boston), Natick
NWS 7-Day Forecast, Natick
NWS Weather Forecast Graph, Eastern
Mass. NWS Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (River Flooding), New
England Radar Loop, Northeast
Radar Loop, Northeast
Lightning Loop, Northeast
Foliage Report, Eastern
Mass. Storm Watch; East
Coast Hurricane Radar Loop; NSTAR: Report an Electrical Outage USA: NWS
USA
Radar Loop, NWS
monthly archives,
NWS
Home, TVWeather USA, Intellicast
USA
Radar Loop, Intellicast
USA
Surface Analysis Loop, Weather
Channel USA
Short-term Forecast,
Beyond: Atlantic
IR Loop
(summer hurricanes), Total
Precipitable Water - North Atlantic, Worldwide
Hurricanes Since 1851, Wundermap, USA Lightning;
US Radiation Network (with links
for Alaska/Hawaii/Japan)Google
Crisis Response, Worldwide
Average Weather
Data, NASA Global Climate, World
Temps and Clouds, World
Infrared Satellite Loop, World Earthquakes
Map (this week), World
Earthquakes Map (past century), NASA
ISWA (Integrated Space Weather Analysis system), Mars, Space, Aurora
Predictor, Links |
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Where are we? About
Natick, About
Massachusetts, Map, MetroWest
Transit (realtime
bus map), Boston
Bus Map, Metro-Boston
Traffic Map, Metro-Boston Train Map,
FlightRadar24, FlightAware,
Photomapping of The
Millers'; Where are others? National
Geographic MapMachine, Google
Maps, NASA Earth Observatory, Moon |
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And
when? NIST Time Widget, Official
U.S. Time, Nakamura
Block Clock, Other
Fun Clocks, USNO
Atomic Time Clock, Sun/Moon
Data (you correct for daylight
time; for Natick, enter "Wayland"), Daylight
zone on
Earth, Phase
of Moon, Tonight's
Sky, Solar
System Live, Reunite
Gondwanaland!, US
Census Bureau's World
Population
Clock, Peter
Russell's World Clock, Worldmapper, Breathing Earth, US
EPA Personal Emissions Calculator, US
National Population Clock, US
National Debt Clock, US Debt
Clock, Money Poster (xkcd.com #980; November, 2011),
Measuring
Worth, On-Going
Wars |
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E-mail Lists,
Addresses and URL change
information, Web-site corrections, etc.
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