Good Reading (Online)
This page was originally intended as a way of keeping track of any
good papers and articles, mostly
computer-related, that I've downloaded from the Internet. However,
that got to be more trouble than it's worth—I can always look up
a paper using a search engine—so I've mostly been adding links to
collections of papers and articles, e.g., magazines with on-line articles,
E-zines, etc. There is lots of good stuff out there—enjoy!
Blogs
A miscellaneous assortment of blogs. More blogs are found under the various
topics found elsewhere on this page.
Meta-Everything
- freshnews.org - "fresh tech news
from around the net". Recent headlines from a bunch of technology web
sites.
And so I don't forget to check these daily!
Everything
Science and technology:
StackExchange was started by Jeff
Atwood and Joel Spolsky. A useful tool, but with a very low signal-to-noise
ratio in the answers, so take them with a grain of salt. Among
StackExchange's over 150 communities are:
Software and source code sites:
Embedded Computing
- Embedded |
Linux Journal - embedded computing articles, news
items, and resources.
- Embedded - "cracking the code
to systems development". (Formerly the wonderful Embedded
Systems Design magazine.)
- Embedded.fm - "[talks] about
the how, why, and what of engineering, usually devices."
(Blog)
Operating Systems
Programming Languages
Software Development
Web Design and Development
Miscellaneous
- Paul McJones' Dusty
Decks - "Preserving historic software".
- Engadget - a gadget blog.
(Gaming)
- InformIT - "books, eBooks,
and digital learning".
- Mappa.Mundi
Magazine - from 1999 to 2001, examined "information
discovery on the Internet via an eclectic mix of ideas about
technology, history, and the future of cyberspace".
- MobileRead - the
"resource for mobile geeks ..."
- Norbert Landsteiner's
Now Go Bang!
(mass:werk/Blog) - software (and hardware) archaelogy.
- ACM's Queue -
"in-depth articles and insightful columns written by accomplished
software engineers, as well as interviews with legends (and future
legends) in the field."
- ACM's Ubiquity -
"Information Everywhere!"
Fiction
- anacrusis - "101-word
stories by Brendan Adkins ... Fiction for the Attention-Deprived".
- FanFiction.Net - "unleash your
imagination and free your soul". Fan-written stories for books, video
games, TV shows, movies, and so on.
Mystery
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror
Genomics
- "How
Perl Saved the Human Genome Project" by Lincoln Stein - describes
a Perl-friendly, data interchange format for genome analysis software.
The Perl objects? Boulders, stones, and pebbles (nested stones), of
course!
- "Visualizing
the Genome" by David B. Searls - includes a description of his RSVP
(Rapid Sequence Visualization in PostScript), a suite of PostScript
programs that perform preliminary sequence analysis and generate
graphic output. The programs also run on any computer that has a
PostScript interpreter, so you're not restricted to a printer!
History & Literature
- TeleRead - "E-books, publishing,
libraries, tech, and related topics".
Miscellaneous
- Damn Interesting -
"A collection of legitimately fascinating information culled from
the past, present, and anticipated future."
- Libarynth - "a parafictional,
semifunctional (deeply InterTwingled) collection of documents,
notes and RandomNess in the smouldering rubble of babel."
Music
Periodicals
Politics
Frequently Read
- Charles
P. Pierce on Politics
- Crooks and Liars -
"John Amato's virtual online magazine... OK, It's a blog!"
- Kevin Drum - "Politics,
charts, and cats from the newly blue enclave of Orange County,
California".
- Juanita Jean's - "The
World's Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, Inc." Evidence of sanity
in the heart of Texas — and a nice, though small,
community of commenters.
- Lawyers, Guns &
Money
- No More Mister Nice Blog
- Matt McNeil's Progressive
Citizen X - "These are the mad political rantings of one Matthew
McNeil, Liberal/Democratic radio host in Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN."
(The
Matt McNeil Show, AM950)
- Raw Story
- Jim Wright's Stonekettle
Station - "Don't just embrace the crazy, sidle up next to it
and lick its ear."
(Threads)
- Wonkette - "Nasty Vile Little
Snark Mob". Off-color, but very funny.
Less Frequently Read
General
PBD - Progressive Blog
Digest, R.I.P. - featured daily posts of
numerous, annotated links to political stories on other
web sites. Dr. Nick Burbules offered his own commentary
in (i) bracketed asides and (ii) the
headlines for the links. For example, a post in Spring,
2018 had 60 annotated links to current stories and he'd
been posting almost every day since 2004 (while
moonlighting as a professor). I have alway been in awe!
Dr. Burbules' January 21, 2021 post on President Biden's
Inauguration Day was the previously announced final post
on the blog. At the end of the post, he says, "Thanks
to all my loyal readers ... After more than 6000 issues,
it is time for me to move on to other projects ..."
Dr. Burbules' monumental achievement remains online and
I wish him luck on new projects he undertakes (and also
on old projects he'd probably had to defer because of
the time well-spent on his blog).
Economics
Conglomerations
Every So Often
Religion
- Benjamin L. Corey's
Formerly Fundie
- Fred Clark's
Slacktivist -
"Test everything; hold fast to what is good." (1 Thessalonians 5:21)
Science
- Biology/Evolution
- The Panda's Thumb -
"dedicated to explaining the theory of evolution, critiquing the
claims of the anti-evolution movement, and defending the integrity
of science education in America and around the world."
- P.Z. Myers'
Pharyngula -
"Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a
godless liberal".
- Larry Moran's Sandwalk -
"Strolling with a Skeptical Biochemist".
- Thomas Levenson's
The Inverse Square
Blog - "science and the public square".
- Carl Zimmer's
Origins - "Making
sense of life, species and how things came to be."
