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

Like Mom, Like Dad...

http://www.zefrank.com/lmld/

Spooky, eh? :)

Many of these are posed, obviously, but the point is not lost.

Time is shorter than you think, and you have more in common with your parents than you think (for better or worse).

Bruce Schneier on Cryptographic Snake Oil

Calling to mind the old saw: "All that glisters is not gold"...
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-9902.html