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be read for free.
And of course, Project Gutenberg. A huge repository of out-of-copyright books.
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance Various Links
Bartleby.com Important reference books online. Various dictionaries, an encyclopedia, quotations, Shakespeare, King James Bible, Strunk and White, and Gray's Anatomy.
Fight Club script. If you don't like this version, try this and click on anything that's 101k long.
General prologue of the Canterbury Tales
This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life by David Foster Wallace
One person's life reading list
Mark Weston's list of recently read books.
Virology: Vincent Racaniello is a virology prof who writes and podcasts about some very important virus-related issues, such as updates on swine flu and vaccine development. Check out the blog site and the This Week in Virology podcasts. He's a good scientist and I enjoy listening to him.
Ted.com A collection of videos of talks (all about 20 minutes or less) given at the TED conference. Features Dennett, Dawkins, and lots of great science talks.
Favourite talks:
International Cognition and Culture Institute
LOLcat Bible Translation Project
Bad Astronomy: debunks astronomical misconceptions and hoaxes as well as doing some writing about real astronomy. Moon landing hoax: I actually met someone last year who told me with a straight face she wasn't convinced that people actually landed on the moon. And she wasn't wearing a tinfoil hat, either.
Carpe Diem Society of BC: a secular humanist club.
The Stevenson College Core Course (“Self and Society”) list of texts.
Interview with Marjoe Gortner. Marjoe is the star of the documentary “Marjoe”, which shows him plying his trade as a very successful evangelical preacher while behind the scenes he explains the tricks to what he does. It won an Oscar when it came out in 1972 and is a lot of fun to watch. Filmmaker Sarah Kernochan about bringing the movie to light again and getting it released on DVD.
Hidden From History: Kevin Annett is a former Minister in the Anglican Church who was expelled from the church for bringing attention to the abuse that the Native people in his ministry in Port Alberni had suffered in the residential schools that were run by the Anglican Church and the Canadian government. This is part of a shameful Canada-wide history of forcing Native kids to go to these schools where they were subjected to mental, physical, and sexual abuse. As well as very bad health conditions and what a number of people insist was the deliberate spread of tuberculosis between the children. See the Wikipedia as well on Canadian residential school system. Watch the full length documentary online: Unrepentant: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide, winner of the “Best International Documentary (Feature)” at the NY Independent Film Festival, Los Angeles, in March 2007.
You can surf forever through Everything2.com
My Boot: She Hates My Futon by Craig Mitchell. This is a really enjoyable (unfinished) online novel. The original site seems to have gone now, so three cheers for the internet archive.
Barely Change from a Twenty A first chapter.
If you haven't already seen Soda play you have to try it.
Lileks.com Be sure to check out The Institute for Official Cheer for all kinds of historical pop culture including The Gallery of Regrettable Food. Plus the weird and wonderful study of the effects of celery on loose elastic a.k.a. The Problematic Underwear Collection a.k.a. Celery + Gravity = Art.
Adherents.com: religion in literature
Science Fiction citations for the OED a call to root through your bookshelf and contribute dates and quotes.
Jesse Wiedel's favourite art
Science Creative Quarterly—note the truth
Slowtwitch: A lot of triathlon-related information. The site has been rearranged since I started reading it, so I'm keeping the following links for my reference:
Road rash treatment Haven't had to use this info yet, but it looks like good advice.
Harris Cyclery Lots of good mechanical information.
Rec.bicycles faq A fearsome amount of information. I've hardly looked at it.
Joe Reger's experiment on fluid loss on a 180-km bike ride.
calorie requirements estimator
Philip Greenspun My own set of links for his site:
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Decisive Moments—a blog by a bike racer
I heard Elizabeth Miller, a Dracula scholar, speak before a performance of Dracula as a ballet in Victoria.
Now Smell This perfume blog
Kerry Swartz—I used to live right close to the gas station he's photographed in “Fairfield
fillup” under “panoramas.” It reminds me of the Todd Hido photograph on this page.
The Internet Archive wayback machine. Fill in a url and see archived older versions of it.
Thinking Machine online chess program. The difficulty isn't adjustable, which is annoying, but there's a neat visualization feature that shows the moves that the program is considering.
Some more history, in Dutch, of the Van Emden family in Surinam
Paul Graham Essays on programming and other subjects. Some of my favourites are Taste for makers and Why nerds are unpopular.
“When there is some real external test of skill, it isn't painful to be at the bottom of the hierarchy. A rookie on a football team doesn't resent the skill of the veteran; he hopes to be like him one day and is happy to have the chance to learn from him . . . Court hierarchies are another thing entirely. This type of society debases anyone who enters it . . . This is the sort of society that gets created by default in American secondary schools. And it happens because these schools have no real purpose beyond keeping the kids all in one place for a certain number of hours each day.”
Why nerds are unpopular
The New Hacker's
Dictionary
The text is old, and hacker culture has been diluted and is no
longer the underground phenomenon it was, but this remains a great
description of the culture. For some more recent examinations of
geekery, see Microserfs and the incomparable Cryptonomicon.
Excellent html lessons can be found at this handy site.
The Ten Commandments for C Programmers
Canadian raising and other oddities
Learning German Through Fairy Tales If you already speak some German, this is a good way to practice.
Anguish Languish I first saw “Ladle Rat Rotten Hut” in the Whole Earth Catalogue, and once I got it, I thought it was pretty funny. More at Kevin Rice's Anguish Languish Page
Doonesbury online . . . xkcd . . . Penny Arcade . . . Goats . . . Sinfest—Whatever You Want . . . Lethal Doses . . . PVP
Paddling humour: Dave's International Scale of River Difficulty and The Song of the Burrito Beast: a tribute to Hunter S. Thompson's Song of the Sausage Creature
The definitive 500-question version of the purity test.
Bofh.ntk.net The Bastard Operator from Hell
Acts of Gord “Go now, and read of The Gord, and know that he has walked the path of the Game Store Owner, and that he has suffered for all of us.”
