links for 2006-04-30
- The Computer History Museum has published a collection of 261 sales brochures for extinct computers, from the Univac to the Apple /// and lots of assorted Wangs, Zilogs, Bendixes and others. These are lovely and fascinating.
- A strange, stylised Scientology/Alien-Invasion/Oedipus story.
- collaborative notes taken during events at the 2006 edition of startup school.
- Zoology of Numbers: 0 to 69
- Algorithms lecture notes, courses, tutorials, references, guides and online books. All of these are published at the Algorithms Directory , allowing quick access and accurate search.
- All science is organized around "journals" and "conferences". In principle, the (laudable) goal is to generate and disseminate scientific information to us all. The decision about which articles and/or talks get into which journals and conferences is made
- Dan Simmons (author of the Hyperion series) on writing well