Ted Nelson book: Geeks Bearing Gifts

A lot to agree with (or not) in here...
http://geeks-bearing-gifts.com/gbgContents.html

$35 Indian tablet PC

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=india-35-dollar-tablet

Reptile Bob?

http://bobparkerengineeredthechchquake.blogspot.com/

Batshit Crazy ..... or *is* it? ;-)

Ruby Quine Globe ... Quobe

http://mamememo.blogspot.com/2010/09/qlobe.html

"1. Copy one of the above programs as a.rb.

2. Run:

while true; do clear; ruby a.rb | tee b.rb; sleep 1; mv -f b.rb a.rb; done

JAWDROP"

Ian Piumarta's S3 2008 talk on youTube

YouTube posting of Ian Piumarta's S3 2008 talk on simplicity and everything in 20k lines :)
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5488338253021492539#
The link to the slides shown in the description is invalid; the slides can be got from
http://piumarta.com/papers/S3-2008-slides.pdf

Successful LISP

http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/contents.html

Converting LyX Documents to Word

http://www.physics.utah.edu/gsac/42/thesis.php

Grab the Physics Thesis Template (zip file); read the ReadMeFirst.pdf contained therein.

tex4ht is the key :)

Export to HTML (NOT HTML (Word))

Open converted html document in Word

Save as a .doc file

Do special stuff if there are any graphics files linked in the document (must be saved into the document itself) - see the ReadMeFirst.pdf instructions.

Suggested alternative: http://www.zamzar.com/ to convert online (result emailed to you) - less secure of course - don't send your top-secret stuff thru this :)

Learn You a Haskell... for Great Good!

http://learnyouahaskell.com/introduction
:)
A gentle (and rather strange) introduction to the Haskell programming language

Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_Hours

Let No Man Steal Your Time -- Stan Kelly-Bootle in DDJ

http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/201804950?queryText=byte+benchmark

nbench

http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/bmark.html

UPdated synthetic benchmark based on the venerable BYTE Magazine benchmarks

Nextbike - Public Bikes in Auckland

http://nextbike.co.nz/

Excellent idea IMO

Khan Academy

http://www.khanacademy.org/

This is so kewl!

Thanks to Dave and Ravi for pointing this out to me :)

Project Management 101

http://management.about.com/cs/projectmanagement/a/PM101.htm

How to Focus Your Mind on a Project

Sage advice on DumbLittleMan.com :

http://www.dumblittleman.com/2007/09/how-to-focus-your-mind-on-project.html

Computer Programming Stupidity

http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_programming.shtml

A Sample:
"
Me: "What compiler do you use?"
Him: "Well, Qbasic is my favorite."
Me: "Nobody over the age of eight uses QBasic for serious purposes."
Him: "But they made windows with QBasic."
"

Some of these are pretty funny IMO :)

Homemade Conductive Play Dough (Doh?)

Mmmm.... squishy circuits :)
http://www.ohgizmo.com/2010/08/31/design-your-own-squishy-circuits-with-homemade-conductive-play-doh/

Noise in Resistors (Audio in particular) -- EE Times

Thermal, Current noise and resistor composition
http://www.eetimes.com/design/audio-design/4206460/Selecting-resistors-for-preamp--amplifier-and-other-high-end-audio-applications