the MassMind.org helps people collect, archive, orgaize, and retrieve their knowledge. We were wiki before pedia, but focused on practical techologies and "how to" change the world. It is a "Book of Shadows" to pass down to our future; my lifes work and that of others. We collect:

• lessons (local / Google drive)
• truths for living
• in peace
• independently

We used to sell a few simple items which promote learning and take advantage of economies of scale to provide prices less than possible for individual purchases. Or product focus was large format CNC and very large 3D printers. However, competing with false product specs from large offshore suppliers and with professional suppliers here in the states made that financially untenable.

Ideas for web sites

• a Technical reference that users can update directly (now available at
  http://techref.massmind.org )
• a Dictionary  that users can update directly
• a Pricebook that users can update directly

The background of this page is a Chinese symbol for MassMind

History

The following quote from an email I sent to a friend when I found out about another's passing, explains my interest in this:

-----Original Message-----
From: James Newton 
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 09:39
To: Nikolai Golovchenko
Subject: FW: Code Generator

Life is short. Tony left some things behind that are of value and that indicate that he was a brilliant addition to the world. It would be a shame not to let people know about his contributions and to put them to good use.

This is the point of massmind. We are all going to die and every day our brains die a little. We forget what we knew. The techref was born the day I realized this. I made it public the day my mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. She doesn't remember who any of us are now and is not expected to live more than another year. She was a very smart lady. I say "was" because when our brains stop, we aren't people anymore are we?

This code generator and projects like it will be all that is left of the mind of people like Tony, you and I and hopefully many others. Obsolescence is not an issue. I can still run the Battlezone arcade game I loved as a kid even though it was written for a different processor and hardware.

Please, let us not loose what we know just because we forget or even die.

-----Original Message-----
From: fisher@cs.york.ac.uk 
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 08:54
To: jamesnewton@geocities.com
Subject: 

It is with great regret that we have to announce the death of Tony Fisher, following a short illness, on 1 March 2000.

Professor Alan Burns
Head of Department

-----Original Message-----
From: James Newton 
Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 08:53
To: fisher@minster.york.ac.uk
Cc: Nikolai Golovchenko
Subject: Your filter design code generator

My colleague and I are interested in extending your digital filter
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/mkfilter/
and PLL design
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/mkpll/
code generator to produce optimized asm code for the PIC microcontrollers
http://techref.massmind.org/microchip
as a part of our code generator project at
http://www.piclist.com/codegen
<SNIP>

See also:

• http://techref.massmind.org/images/www/hobby_elec/e_menu.htm Seiichi Inoue was a very nice Japanese man who shared his knowledge in his own language and also provided this (somewhat difficult) English translation. We mirrored his site until after his death, and keep it now as an archive.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ZjKl-d2Tc Another wize women who's grandson documented her knowledge of cooking during a depression and finding ways of enjoying life during tough times. We should all do this, so their knowledge is not lost and life has more meaning.+
• http://commons.media.mit.edu/en/ Computers don't currently know the basic things about the world that we consider "common sense." Here, you can help build a database of such knowledge in simple English sentences. The computer will analyze these sentences to connect concepts and draw new conclusions from the things you teach it.+
• Best Stuff

Comments:

• "These pages are served without commercial sponsorship" yet I count...four AdChoices ads.
  
  Might want to change that text.
  
  Also might want to think about a design that doesn't look like it came from 1994 and is most-readable on a 72-column text-only display...
   
  James Newton of MassMind replies: And you might want to read the definition of "commercial sponsorship" or think about people who only have access to the internet though devices made in 1994. I have hosting bills to pay, I do NOT have commerical sponsors, and my target audience is anyone who can get on the internet. If you want to offer to sponsor me, or provide a better layout (which still works on old equipment) then great. Otherwise I'll happy invite you to never vist my site again. Thanks!+

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• the back ground chinese symbol is backwards ( mirrored ) look at the heart radical , it's left to right backward
  but i like your site!+